Five needs driving SDNs

	HP Converged Cloud: the missing (WAN) link | Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages
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	Five needs driving SDNs Five trends in network are driving the transition to software defined networking and programmability. Read More WEBCAST: VCE/VMware Demystifying Desktop Virtualization Organizations faced with the growing costs and security concerns created by the quantity and diversity of personal computers and devices need a more secure, cost effective, flexible desktop environment. Now organizations can rapidly deploy a more secure, cost effective and flexible desktop environment. View Now In this Issue HP Converged Cloud: the missing (WAN) link Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages Verizon beefs up with Juniper's PTX Concurrent connections: The secret to buying scalable IT gear Strangeloop Network Accelerator cuts Web page build time RIM's rumored breakup is a 'silly fantasy' How to win at the IT outsourcing negotiating table Startup Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts Legal developments affecting network surveillance technology: Ignore them at your peril Exinda targets branch office with new WAN optimization appliances WHITE PAPER: Certeon Put the Power of Application Acceleration to Work Discover a new, non-appliance approach to improving application performance for mobile workers. Through data compression, content-aware data deduplication (using a single instance history store), and by a variety of advanced protocol handling methods and application blueprints, users can see 50%-90% improved throughput. Learn more. HP Converged Cloud: the missing (WAN) link In April, HP announced HP Converged Cloud, clearly targeted at the traditional large enterprise market, with a focus on hybrid environments. Read More Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages CIOs and senior IT leaders have ascended the ranks of corporate America, and in some cases, they rate among the most highly paid executives at the largest U.S. companies. IT leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Aetna, Gap, FedEx, Home Depot and Walgreens took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2011. Read More Verizon beefs up with Juniper's PTX Juniper Networks has certainly seen its ups and downs over the past few years. The company is trying to move into new areas while its historical base of strength, routers, is under attack from not only arch-rival Cisco but also a number of other vendors trying to crack the router code, such as Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Reduce Network Traffic between VMware VMs Accelerate application performance within your VMware environment. The industry's first virtual appliance for application acceleration for VMware combines high performance of application acceleration with cost-savings of virtualization. It significantly reduces network traffic between VMs. Learn more. Concurrent connections: The secret to buying scalable IT gear IT folk love numbers, so it's somewhat understandable that many buyers may be swept away by the gigabits of WAN capacity a device can saturate and forget about another equally important measurement - connection counts. The number of concurrent connections has grown and continues to grow due to the shift towards Web applications, coupled with the characteristics of mainstream business applications. Read More Strangeloop Network Accelerator cuts Web page build time Website acceleration provider Strangeloop Networks is launching a new service for providers that can accelerate websites all the way from the browser accessing a site to the server hosting it. Read More RIM's rumored breakup is a 'silly fantasy' Unnamed sources "close" to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dismissed as a "silly fantasy" a story by The Sunday Times of London claiming that the company was considering splitting its hardware and network services groups in to separate businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Tablets in the Enterprise Tablets are replacing laptops at lightning speed. Whether company-issued or part of the BYOD phenomenon, the increased use of smart devices has resulted in a dramatic shift in network traffic with an emphasis on wireless. This paper explains how to predict Wi-Fi demands and architect a best-fit wireless network strategy for your environment. Learn more. How to win at the IT outsourcing negotiating table If CIOs want to get the most from IT outsourcing deals, they need to treat negotiation as an organizational business process--with training, tools, and processes--rather than an IT purchasing arrangement. Read More Startup Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts Startup Allgress made its debut Tuesday with software designed to give chief information security officers (CISOs) a view into the security and risk-compliance status of corporate networks and data resources. Read More Legal developments affecting network surveillance technology: Ignore them at your peril Political and social events highlight the immense benefits of technology, but also reveal technology's dark side. Consider Arab Spring. The uprisings demonstrated, on the one hand, how innovations such as social media can be used to evade and challenge repressive regimes and promote democracy, but on the other hand, the ability of the same regimes to capitalize on improved surveillance technology to counter those threats and suppress their citizens. Read More Exinda targets branch office with new WAN optimization appliances Boston-based WAN optimization vendor Exinda today released two new variants of its Edge line of appliances, targeted at branch-office users who need performance enhancement and don't want to spend a lot of time on setup. Read More
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