Silver Peak CEO: We're reimagining the WAN for a cloud world

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	INSIDER Silver Peak CEO: We're reimagining the WAN for a cloud world Silver Peak, Inc., made its name as a top provider of wide-area network optimization capabilities. But the company has its sights set on a loftier goal today: Completely changing the way you build your entire WAN. Silver Peak is moving rapidly to support so-called software-defined WANs, which make it easier and cheaper to connect branches and end users to cloud applications. (Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Connection 5 Steps to Help Defend Your Network The Cisco ONE Enterprise Networks Architecture can provide the necessary levels of application intelligence, contextual information, visibility and automated control to enable the network to be the foundation for companies today as well as in the future. Learn More In this Issue New industry group to bring web-scale tech to the enterprise CIOs say AppleCare for Enterprise is lacking Hacker: 'Hundreds of thousands' of vehicles are at risk of attack Cisco quits set-top box market, sells business to Technicolor Dropbox adds team-communication muscle with Clementine buy To Cisco-backed Sensity, lights are just IoT waiting to happen IBM woos cloud developers Google, ISPS offering free broadband to low-income families What's behind Linux's new Cloud Native Computing Foundation? 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>> New industry group to bring web-scale tech to the enterprise Some of the biggest names in IT and online services have banded together to standardize the way applications are run in the cloud. Read More CIOs say AppleCare for Enterprise is lacking Apple's budding partnership with IBM culminated in the release of AppleCare for Enterprise, the company's business-specific support service, but for the vast majority of organizations that use Apple products the initiative is nothing more than a glorified Genius Bar. Read More Hacker: 'Hundreds of thousands' of vehicles are at risk of attack A hacker who was able to wirelessly gain access to a Jeep and control its vital functions said he could do the same with any number of vulnerable vehicles on the road today. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Fight Malware, Malfeasance and Malingering Every year brings an even more extreme set of threats to the enterprise than the last. The good news is that enterprises have a range of mitigation options. The question is which solution offers the organization the greatest protection and control without adding complexity or unnecessary costs. Learn more >> Cisco quits set-top box market, sells business to Technicolor Although Cisco will stop making video customer premises equipment for service providers, it will continue to develop software and cloud services to help telcos deliver IPTV and other video services to their customers. Read More Dropbox adds team-communication muscle with Clementine buy Dropbox took in a fresh infusion of team-collaboration technology and talent on Wednesday with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Clementine. Read More To Cisco-backed Sensity, lights are just IoT waiting to happen Cisco Systems is tightening its relationship with Sensity Systems, a Silicon Valley startup that wants buildings and cities now adopting LED lighting to embrace the Internet of Things. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent The Three Industry Trends Changing Enterprise IT This webinar will look at how CIOs can leverage three intersecting trends – cloud, new technologies, and web-scale IT – to help their companies respond rapidly to new business opportunities. Learn More IBM woos cloud developers IBM is stepping up its efforts to atract cloud developers. Big Blue announced a three-pronged approach that includes a new collaborative platform to help developers stay on top of open source technologies, the release of 50 tools and services to the open source community and partnerships with 200 academic institutions across 36 countries. Read More Google, ISPS offering free broadband to low-income families Google and seven other ISPs have joined a new U.S. government pilot program to connect 275,000 low-income households to the Internet for free or at reduced rates. Read More What's behind Linux's new Cloud Native Computing Foundation? A group of 19 companies, led primarily by Google, created a new open source foundation that aims to specify how clouds should be architected to serve modern applications. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is housed in the Linux Foundation and includes big names such as Google, IBM, Intel, Box, Cisco, and VMware, along with a variety of smaller companies like Docker, Cycle Computing, Mesosphere and Weaveworks. Read More
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