Cisco, SDNs, and CDNs

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	Cisco, SDNs, and CDNs Guest post by Scott Landman, Founder & Managing Partner Arcus Advisors, LLC Cisco's content delivery networking offering, Cisco Content Delivery System, part of the much larger Next-Generation Network Solutions for Videoscape, has not been met with an enthusiastic response by service providers, with only Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More In this Issue Top Challenges Facing Healthcare CIOs 4 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Big Data Initiative US to drive 3,000 Wi-Fi linked vehicles in massive crash avoidance trial SDNs: Love 'em or Leave 'em? Server virtualization and Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture Self Service: The most understated reason why SDNs will rock your world Silver Peak builds WAN optimization directly into major hypervisors WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. Top Challenges Facing Healthcare CIOs Few industries face as many IT challenges as healthcare, where government mandates, security requirements and a need to replace outdated technology make a CIO's job difficult. Read More 4 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Big Data Initiative Big data holds much promise for organizations seeking ways to improve business processes. Before reaching that point, though, you need to know what data you'll need, how you'll get it, how you'll use it and what you expect to learn from it. Learn how to start answering those questions here. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! US to drive 3,000 Wi-Fi linked vehicles in massive crash avoidance trial The US Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date. Read More SDNs: Love 'em or Leave 'em? Are Software Defined Networks (SDN) on your short list yet? Two recent surveys suggest it depends on where you work. I say that given our recent experiences with SDN, within five years and everyone will adopt or have definitive plans to adopt SDN technology. Here's why: Read More WEBCAST: IBM Make Your Sharepoint Social Date: 8/21/2012 Time: 1:00 pm ET IBM can help extend your current SharePoint implementation to include true social capabilities reducing the friction associated with discovering, sharing and collaborating within a team, across the company or with your business partners and customers. Learn More Server virtualization and Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture Having covered over the last several columns the key WAN factors affecting application performance as well as the "chattiness" issues of certain applications, a lot of the history of the Enterprise WAN and Read More Self Service: The most understated reason why SDNs will rock your world As I noted previously, two surveys give different pictures about SDNs. My take: every enterprise will adopt SDNs, but lower hardware prices will not be the biggest reason. Here's why: Read More Silver Peak builds WAN optimization directly into major hypervisors WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak announced today that it has integrated its virtual open architecture product directly into VMware vSphere, allowing IT staff who aren't directly involved with the network layer to interact with it via the hypervisor console. Read More
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