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	Google, OpenDNS deploy DNS tweak for faster browsing Nearly 40 million Internet users will experience faster Web browsing starting today, thanks to a protocol tweak being deployed by Google, OpenDNS and several content delivery networks that allows them to more precisely serve up content from the nearest available server. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! In this Issue Thinnest material in the world could boost Internet speeds tenfold-plus Thomson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud Cisco, VMware expand collaboration NSF $450K award goes to researcher who wants to play Tetris with wireless networks Cisco, NEC team up on LTE networks Brocade caters to cloud customers What's the best alternative to Spanning Tree? Vendors as partners Cloud-based enterprise laptop backup player lands venture funding Stanford's Open Networking Summit to highlight OpenFlow, SDN Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards WEBCAST: Cymphonix Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today! Thinnest material in the world could boost Internet speeds tenfold-plus Two Nobel Prize winning scientists out of the U.K. have come up with a new way to use graphene – the thinnest material in the world – that could make Internet pipes feel a lot fatter. Read More Thomson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud Information and financial services giant Thomson Reuters has more than 55,000 employees spread over 100 countries. Read More Cisco, VMware expand collaboration Cisco and VMware expanded their 4+ year partnership by unveiling network virtualization extensions designed to expand the mobility range of virtual machines across multiple data centers and cloud environments. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Analyze Multi-Terabyte Network Traffic Recordings See Cascade Shark in action. This Webcast demonstrates how the only network analysis software fully integrated with Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer, is capable of sustained, multi-gigabit per second recording of network traffic without packet drops. See how easy this powerful tool is to use. Learn more! NSF $450K award goes to researcher who wants to play Tetris with wireless networks The National Science Foundation has awarded a 5-year, $450K grant to a Virginia Tech researcher who says she hopes to figure out how disparate wireless networks can better fit together to speed traffic deliver across the Internet. Read More Cisco, NEC team up on LTE networks Cisco and NEC will jointly sell LTE networks to carriers under a deal announced on Tuesday. Read More Brocade caters to cloud customers Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for cloud computing, along with additions to its new VDX data center switch line. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more What's the best alternative to Spanning Tree? The two most often discussed alternatives to STP are Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) and Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links (TRILL). Read More Vendors as partners Ken Piddington, CIO of Global Partners LP, an $8 billion energy company in the Northeast, recently implemented an innovative vendor partnership program that he hopes will improve the product and services the company gets from suppliers while helping those suppliers more efficiently serve the company and benefit from the relationship. He recently outlined the plan with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More Cloud-based enterprise laptop backup player lands venture funding Druva, a 4-year-old provider of enterprise laptop backup and retrieval products and services, has received $12 million in venture funding, the company announced last week. Read More Stanford's Open Networking Summit to highlight OpenFlow, SDN Stanford University this October will host the first Open Networking Summit, which will focus on the history, state and future of OpenFlow and software-defined networking technologies. Read More Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards Fusion-io has bundled virtualization software from its IO Turbine acquisition with its PCIe-based solid-state storage adapter card to serve up flash cache to multiple VMs on a single physical server. Read More
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