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	10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial attempt failed. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Network/Cloud Security & Business Continuity eGuide Network security today means much more than simply building a perimeter around the enterprise network to defend from threats. With cloud-computing models becoming more popular, enterprises are extending corporate data and applications outside the four walls of the data center. Learn More! In this Issue Cisco on BYOD: Get Used to It IBM: CEOs who find openness – social media, collaboration -- grow business faster Preparing Your Enterprise for World IPv6 Launch The Four Lies of Networking Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter? The look ahead to a software-controlled world WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. Cisco on BYOD: Get Used to It Last week Cisco released some news about the tech topic du jour, BYOD. The main message: companies are less weary of employees using personal devices in the workplace, but security is still a concern. Is anyone surprised here? IT Hasn't Been Slow to Embrace BYOD, But... Read More IBM: CEOs who find openness – social media, collaboration -- grow business faster IBM says a study it did of some 1,700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many are embracing what Big Blue calls openness -characterized by a greater use of social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation - is fast becoming a major part of successful corporations. In the news: The SpaceX blast into history Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! Preparing Your Enterprise for World IPv6 Launch Last year on June 8, 2011 we all experienced World IPv6 Day. This was a 24-hour test for web sites to use both an IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously for the same URL. One June 6, 2012 there will be World IPv6 Launch in which many organizations will enable IPv6 forever. Enterprises will need to prepare for World IPv6 Launch whether or not they are actively participating and enabling IPv6. World... Read More The Four Lies of Networking Big Data and networking in general are all about numbers and statistics. We talk about our Petabytes of data, the number of packets per second and the Mbytes replicated in an hour. We want to know about the uptime percentages of our services and the time to repair on our circuits. We're sold on loss ratios and round trip times. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks IDC Worldwide Enterprise WLAN 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis Covering a variety of vendors in the enterprise WLAN market, this evaluation is based on various deployment architectures and set of parameters that assess vendors relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in the short and the long term. Read now. Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter? Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack. Read More The look ahead to a software-controlled world The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up. Read More
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