Cisco's exit from ADCs should come as no surprise

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	Cisco's exit from ADCs should come as no surprise Cisco's retreat from the Layer 4-7 load balancer market should come as no surprise. It was getting pummeled by F5 and Citrix; and Cisco is increasingly virtualizing those and other ancillary capabilities to its core routing and switching products through software. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center iPhone 5 teardown: First look INSIDE Apple's new smartphone Oracle to announce cloud infrastructure service at OpenWorld, Ellison says Cisco looks to one-up Arista, Juniper with Nexus 3548 It's time for network management to evolve 11ac will be faster, but how much faster really? 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes honor real, but offbeat research Avaya Notification integrates with collaboration Beating the Internet Explorer zero-day threat WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center Security is one of the leading challenges for IT professionals. And securing the data center (and related applications) in the era of public, hybrid and private clouds presents a complex set of problems for IT. The rise of SDN technologies will change the dynamics around securing the data center network, offering opportunities for improved automation and as well as new security concerns. Read More iPhone 5 teardown: First look INSIDE Apple's new smartphone Well, after all the hype, it's here. Apple's iPhone 5 with all of its new bells and whistles like LTE support and a new camera to just mention a couple cooler items. The folks at iFixit.com, as they are want to do, grabbed a new iPhone and took it apart. This is what it looks like on the inside. Take a peek. Read More Oracle to announce cloud infrastructure service at OpenWorld, Ellison says Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison said on Thursday. 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 Cisco looks to one-up Arista, Juniper with Nexus 3548 Looking to reverse the momentum of rivals Arista and Juniper in high-frequency trading, Cisco this week unveiled a new generation of ultra low-latency Nexus switches based on custom silicon. Read More It's time for network management to evolve When I look back at the past decade, it's remarkable to see the changes that have taken place in corporate IT. For those of you who don't know my past, I was in corporate IT prior to being an analyst. I, like many other IT individuals, built an IT philosophy based on tight control. IT had control over everything – the networks were all private lines or frame relay, each application had its own... Read More 11ac will be faster, but how much faster really? Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. Read More 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. 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes honor real, but offbeat research Groundbreaking research into monkey butts, green hair, diamonds and dead fish was honored this year. Read More Avaya Notification integrates with collaboration Bringing together a solution that incorporates real-time collaboration, conferencing and mobility, Avaya has a new approach designed to help with crisis management. The latest version of the Avaya Notification Solution (ANS) is at the heart of the solution that can transmit critical information and instructions in multiple formats. The ANS approach is built to support small, targeted teams or large groups. Read More Beating the Internet Explorer zero-day threat Microsoft is quickly working to patch a new zero-day threat that has been discovered in recent versions of its Internet Explorer browser. Of course, Microsoft isn't the only vendor dealing with this type of issue; a recent zero-day vulnerability exploit of Oracle's Java engine was recently found in the wild. We know that this isn't the first set of zero-day vulnerabilities for which actual exploitation... Read More
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