Brocade offering free SDN for one year

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	Brocade offering free SDN for one year Brocade this week said it is shipping its SDN controller and offering it free for one year. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Advanced Case Management Leadership Guide A guide that examines how IBM Case Manager offers an extensible platform for enhancing capabilities and protecting investments with additional value-added ECM capabilities from IBM, as well as industry-specific case management applications and best practices from IBM Business Partners. Read Now In this Issue Cisco building switch ports to feed faster Wi-Fi Inside AT&T's grand plans for SDN INSIDER The hunt is on to extend battery life for mobile devices Google may invest in SpaceX for Internet through satellites 'Is radar breaking my WiFi?' The never-ending quest to dethrone email Republican net neutrality bill allows 'reasonable' network management Sprint now says it's OK with broadband reclassification Marriott now says it won't block guests' Wi-Fi hotspots Cisco's business case for IoE WHITE PAPER: Bitdefender   Security Business Review The Security Business Review examines some of the latest C&C anonymization techniques found in the wild today. Learn More Cisco building switch ports to feed faster Wi-Fi   Cisco Systems is forging ahead with LAN switches designed to support faster Wi-Fi access points even while an ethernet standard for the technology they use is still taking shape. Read More   Inside AT&T's grand plans for SDN AT&T spends some $20 billion per year on capital expenditures, the bulk of that on its massive network, and recently announced a bold plan to adopt Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization in a big way. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with AT&T Senior Vice President of Architecture & Design Andre Fuetsch for a deeper dive on the grand plan. Read More     INSIDER The hunt is on to extend battery life for mobile devices Smartphone and tablet makers are on a mission to make their mobile devices the epicenter of a user's professional and personal life. One major obstacle stands in their way, though: The device's battery life. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Curvature Whitepaper: Peers vs. Policy Companies are interested in a single point of contact, on-site vendor support, more comprehensive network knowledge, and support for end-of-life products. To keep up with these evolving requirements, IT decision makers are considering peer advice and alternative maintenance. View now Google may invest in SpaceX for Internet through satellites Google may invest about US$1 billion in SpaceX, a company that aims to use satellites to deliver low-cost Internet to underserved regions of the earth, according to reports. Read More   'Is radar breaking my WiFi?' The question in the headline was posed by a reader of Reddit's section that is devoted to networking. "This just seems so ... far-fetched," the questioner writes. "I wouldn't believe it if someone told me this story." Read More   The never-ending quest to dethrone email Few old-guard standards have seen as many pretenders to the throne as the SMTP/POP3/IMAP email triumvirate has. If only someone could come up with an alternative that did everything email did but better, more securely, and with less hassle, wouldn't it be worth it? Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems   10 Reasons to Strengthen Security Data security has become an increasingly critical concern for all organizations. In this paper, we explore 10 reasons why app and desktop virtualization should be the foundation for your layered approach to information security. Learn More Republican net neutrality bill allows 'reasonable' network management Draft net neutrality legislation released Friday by Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or selectively slowing legal Web content, but it would allow them to engage in "reasonable" network management. Read More   Sprint now says it's OK with broadband reclassification Sprint wouldn't object to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility in order to pass strong net neutrality rules, as long as the agency applies those new regulations with a "light touch," the mobile carrier said. Read More   Marriott now says it won't block guests' Wi-Fi hotspots Hotel operator Marriott International has backed off its request to block some outside Wi-Fi hotspots inside its facilities, saying the company has responded to customer feedback. Read More   Cisco's business case for IoE Hyper-relevance enabled by the Internet of Everything is key to unearthing a more than 15% boost in profits for retailers, according to Cisco. Read More
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