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	Juniper dumps BitGravity CDN tech Juniper Networks is reportedly dropping the BitGravity content delivery networking (CDN) technology it licensed earlier this year and refocusing its CDN efforts. 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. In this Issue VMworld 2012: Location data will be Holy Grail for real-time apps, tech CEOs say Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain VMworld: Riverbed shows off killer app for VDI Cisco survey: Users want video calling interoperability Leaky web sites provide trail of clues about corporate executives 18 great IT tools for Android How cybercriminals and hacktivists use DDoS tools to attach Virtualized network services will be game changer for enterprise IT Google adds enterprise social networking features to Google+ WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more. VMworld 2012: Location data will be Holy Grail for real-time apps, tech CEOs say Big data could back a retail revolution for items as sophisticated as jet engines, a panel of CEOs from high-powered tech companies told a VM world audience. Read More Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Before their corporate jobs, many tech CEOs got their hands dirty, scrubbing oils stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. Here are their stories. Read More Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain With the return of students to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's campus in the fall, the university's network will be required to cope with a huge increase in demand - and the major culprit, according to network systems manager Richard Pacheco, is Netflix. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 9 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Citrix NetScaler beats F5 and gets your network Cloud-ready by providing 2X consolidation; 5X capacity and 4X+ scalability. Learn More VMworld: Riverbed shows off killer app for VDI Earlier this year, Riverbed released a product known as the "Granite Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI)" to optimize the performance of many of the applications that it's core product, Steelhead, does not. Read More Cisco survey: Users want video calling interoperability Most U.S. residents want the ability to place video calls to people using a different service provider, even though consumer video-calling services are now locked behind proprietary walls, according to a survey released Tuesday by Cisco Systems. Read More Leaky web sites provide trail of clues about corporate executives You can read about Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh on the company's Web site-- about how he sold his first company, LinkExchange to Microsoft in 1999, at the age of 24, and joined Zappos as an advisor and investor, eventually rising to the company's top post. What you might not learn is that Tony is an exercise enthusiast who gets his gear from Nikeplus.com, watches his favorite shows on the Internet streaming site Hulu, keeps up with his friends on Facebook and checks the value of his Amazon.com stock (Amazon bought Zappos in 2009) at Marketwatch.com. That lesser known information about Hsieh -- a treasure trove for hackers -- is public, all the same: leaked from e-commerce and social networking sites linked to the CEO's @zappos.com e-mail address. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee What's Holding Back the Cloud? This report captures key findings from a blind survey of 800 IT professionals in four countries — China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States — that provide insight into cloud computing security concerns, and how those concerns might be alleviated. Learn more in the McAfee Securing Cloud-Based Services KnowledgeVault. Learn more. 18 great IT tools for Android These Android apps, from network sniffers to SNMP MIB browsers to SSH tools, will come in handy for network and IT pros. Read More How cybercriminals and hacktivists use DDoS tools to attach Network professionals know that distributed denial-of-service attacks are an ever-growing danger. The recent assault on Twitter is just the latest evidence. Using a mushrooming array of advanced tools, including pay-per-use services and mobile devices, attackers are taking down websites, DNS and email servers, often using these tools to destroy a company's online revenue, customer service and brand reputation. But the technology is only half the story. The thinking that shapes attacks — an evolving blend of careful planning, probing and improvisation—is often the difference between duds and strikes that leave victims begging for mercy. Read More Virtualized network services will be game changer for enterprise IT Software defined networks (SDNs) open the door to services like software defined acceleration (SDA). Read More Google adds enterprise social networking features to Google+ Google has started publicly testing an initial set of enterprise social networking (ESN) features for Google+, adding a key collaboration component for Google Apps customers. Read More
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