12 things I hate about Hadoop; data center SDN growing 65% this year

	Data Center SDN growing 65% this year | Startup builds on Wi-Fi chips for cheaper 'last mile' to home broadband
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	12 things I hate about Hadoop I love the elephant. The elephant loves me. Nothing is perfect, however, and sometimes friends fight. Here are the things I fight with Hadoop about. Read More WHITE PAPER: Vormetric Vormetric Security Intelligence with SIEM Integration This document describes the integration of Vormetric Security Intelligence Logs with well-known Security Intelligence Event Management (SIEM) tools, details about the log messages that get generated and samples of reports that can be generated with the various SIEM tools. View Now>> In this Issue Data Center SDN growing 65% this year Startup builds on Wi-Fi chips for cheaper 'last mile' to home broadband Linksys expands its WRT product line with a slick, stackable Ethernet switch Open source startup targeting DevOps-defined networking Qualcomm to buy Bluetooth and GPS chip designer CSR for $2.5B EMC to buy OpenStack cloud guru Cloudscaling BrandPost: What's a hybrid VPN and when should you run one? Holograms, VR and telepresence: Experts herald the coming Gigabit Age Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear WHITE PAPER: Dell Software The Top 10 Things DBAs Should Know About Toad for IBM DB2 Toad for IBM DB2 is a powerful tool for the database administrator. But it's some of its newer and lesser known features that provide the great productivity benefits in the DBA's day-to-day work. Do you know the top 10 features of Toad for IBM DB2? Download this white paper and find out. View now Data Center SDN growing 65% this year SDN is exiting the hype phase and entering the usage stage. The data center software-defined networking market is expected to grow more than 65% in 2014, reflecting the maturity of architectures and the deployments under way, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read More Startup builds on Wi-Fi chips for cheaper 'last mile' to home broadband Areas starved for high-speed broadband may get a new option thanks to a system that's based on Wi-Fi hardware and could deliver half a gigabit per second to each home. The technology from Mimosa Networks would send data from an access point on a tower or neighboring building to a small antenna on the customer's home. That could mean a much cheaper connection than running fiber or copper wires to each residence, an attractive proposition for service providers that want to compete with cable companies and carriers or get people in less developed countries online for the first time. Read More Linksys expands its WRT product line with a slick, stackable Ethernet switch I have a confession to make: While I've been singing the praises of 802.11ac Wi-Fi routers for more than two years, I have personally been making do with an old 802.11n model. This weekend, I finally upgraded my home network with a Linksys WRT1900AC. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging Software-Defined Flash to Drive Your Business With end-to-end, tightly integrated functionality and super-fast flash technology, products like IBM FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution empower businesses to leverage the efficiency of SDS and the speed of flash storage all at once. Learn More Open source startup targeting DevOps-defined networking A software startup debuted this week proposing software-defined networking to Docker, the open source software for creating Linux application virtualization containers. SocketPlane was founded by former Cisco, Red Hat, HP, OpenDaylight and Dell officials. In the open source world, their names are well known. Read More Qualcomm to buy Bluetooth and GPS chip designer CSR for $2.5B Qualcomm has agreed to buy chip company CSR in a move to strengthen its focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected cars. Read More EMC to buy OpenStack cloud guru Cloudscaling The deal would mark the latest in a wave of consolidation in the cloud industry, with previous big acquisitions including HP snapping up Euclayptus and Cisco buying OpenStack vendor Metacloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Why Endpoint Backup is More Critical Than Ever Get the latest backup trends (and what to do about them) in this study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Code42 in March 2014. Learn More BrandPost: What's a hybrid VPN and when should you run one? There are multiple ways to secure your WAN data traffic. You might take different measures depending on the size of a given location and the type of traffic it generates. If you interconnect your secured WANs, you'll find that you've built a hybrid-style virtual private network (VPN). Read More Holograms, VR and telepresence: Experts herald the coming Gigabit Age The widespread availability of Gigabit Internet connectivity by 2025 will open a brave new world of killer apps, according to the more than 1,400 experts who contributed to the Pew Research Center's latest study. Read More Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear VCE, the converged infrastructure consortium of Cisco and EMC, this week unveiled new and enhanced data center IT systems, including an all-flash memory platform for mixed workloads. Read More
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