Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net

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	Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net The State of Indiana has launched a 100G Ethernet network for research and education. Read More WHITE PAPER: SuccessFactors Business Execution: Executive Buyer's Guide The workforce is your largest operating expense, and the most important asset in business execution. Companies that narrow the gap between strategy and results can achieve increased growth, lower operating costs and more. Get your Buyers Guide now and learn how SuccessFactors BizX suite can help you close the gap. Learn More Now! In this Issue Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices TECH DEBATE -- The future of end user computing: Two visions What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE or bust in 2012 Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you From Coca-Cola: How to empower IT Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices AT&T has given new life to "The Hello Machine," a 1974 wordless film that celebrates the hand-crafting by Western Electric workers of a complete Electronic Switching System, which at the time was not yet 10-year-old technology. Directed by Carroll Ballard ("Never Cry Wolf," "The Black Stallion"), the 11-minute "film-poem" was posted to the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube earlier this month. Read More TECH DEBATE -- The future of end user computing: Two visions Personal computing as we know it is changing as hordes of workers arrive with their favorite new tech tools and demand access to corporate resources. We ask two companies likely to play key roles in the flexible new world of end user computing – VMware and Citrix -- to spell out the future as they see it. Who do you think is better positioned to deliver on the promise? Cast your vote. Read More What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP Learn more Learn more Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE or bust in 2012 A Verizon Wireless executive has told Dow Jones Newswires that the carrier plans a huge expansion of its 4G LTE wireless network this year and plans only to roll out 4G-capable phones. Read More Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. Read More Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, what he calls The Enterprise OpenStack Company, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. The team eventually gave up on that and wrote Nova, which NASA uses today to power its Nebula Cloud environment, and Nova was ultimately contributed to the OpenStack project, which it formed with Rackspace. McKenty left NASA after Anso was acquired by Rackspace in 2010, and formed Piston Cloud in 2011 with co-founders Gretchen Curtis (also of NASA) and Christopher MacGown of Rackspace. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with McKenty for a deep dive on why OpenStack matters and where Piston Cloud fits in. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel The Changing Role of Mobile Communications in the Workplace Mobile VoIP can help by leveraging Wi-Fi networks. Choosing an experienced technology vendor to deliver mVoIP capabilities can dramatically reduce costs while improving productivity. Read now! From Coca-Cola: How to empower IT As the CIO of the Coca-Cola's Bottling Investments Group, Javier Polit has strong ideas about how to ensure that IT is in sync with the company's business needs. Read More Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure Meru Networks this week unveiled virtualized versions of its wireless LAN infrastructure software, part of trend that's simplifying enterprise WLANs and eliminating hardware. Read More Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier. Read More Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners. Read More
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