Why EMC acquired VCE from Cisco

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	Why EMC acquired VCE from Cisco Following the acquisition, EMC will own 90% of the JV, with Cisco maintaining about a 10% stake in the company.The companies formed VCE to develop an integrated, validated, pre-tested converged solution that customers could use to stand up a private cloud in just a few days. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More In this Issue At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be Chicago takes top spot in mobile performance ranking Complaints mount about Yosemite crippling Wi-Fi Broadband boost: G.fast testing lab, consortium to foster 100G over copper AT&T signed up 500,000 cars for its 4G network last quarter Lawmakers call on FCC to reclassify broadband for net neutrality Industry reacts to Cisco cutting stake in VCE, EMC taking control Startup wants to make cloud attractive for security-sensitive businesses Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be The Internet can ease travel concerns in many ways, including flight-delay information, maps of road congestion, and ride-sharing apps. But a Wi-Fi network at the Austin, Texas, airport can now answer one of the great unknowns: How long will I have to wait in line at security? Read More Chicago takes top spot in mobile performance ranking Chicago is the U.S. city with the best overall mobile performance ranking, according to tens of thousands of voice and data tests conducted in 125 cities by RootMetrics. Read More Complaints mount about Yosemite crippling Wi-Fi Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there's a problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Network Impact of 802.11ac This paper discuss two approaches for efficient WLAN design. Both let you integrate 802.11ac into your WLAN and help lay the foundation for future, high-speed technologies. View Now>> Broadband boost: G.fast testing lab, consortium to foster 100G over copper You might think that next-generation broadband speeds and DSL go together like Amsterdam and New Hampshire, and you'd be right, but perhaps not in the way you think. Read More AT&T signed up 500,000 cars for its 4G network last quarter AT&T signed up half a million cars to its 4G network between July and September, the result of deals with Audi and General Motors to connect cars and offer in-vehicle hotspots for riders. Read More Lawmakers call on FCC to reclassify broadband for net neutrality The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility in order to achieve net neutrality, but take a "light touch" while doing it, a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive WLAN Buyer's Guide It is crucial to thoroughly understand the systems management capabilities of any WLAN being considered, since this will be the largest ongoing expense of the overall deployment. Learn how to evaluate properly by reading Aerohive's WLAN Definitive Guide. View Now>> Industry reacts to Cisco cutting stake in VCE, EMC taking control We've rounded up articles and social media commentary on the big changes taking place with the VCE converged infrastructure joint venture. Read More Startup wants to make cloud attractive for security-sensitive businesses After three years in stealth, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup named Bracket Computing launched a new computing system today that aims to make the public cloud more palatable for security-sensitive enterprises. Read More Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely The latest chapter in the ongoing furor over the software known as systemd threatens to split the Debian community, after a splinter group stated that it would create a fork of the well-known Linux distribution if systemd is included in an upcoming release. Read More
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