Cloupia acquisition shows Cisco is serious about cloud management

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	Cloupia acquisition shows Cisco is serious about cloud management This morning Cisco announced the intention to purchase privately held Cloupia for approximately $125 million in cash, adding to its long list of cloud-related acquisitions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems BYOD: Fueling Mobile Growth, Employee Innovation A recent Cisco survey shows that 89% of IT departments worldwide enable BYOD--proving it's a global trend for which IT must prepare. What are the security challenges? The benefits? Learn why the world is drawn to a more flexible network. Read Now In this Issue Cisco acquires data center management company Cisco, Qualcomm join to make better use of Wi-Fi in stores and venues Review: 6 slick open source routers DARPA wants army of networked amateur astronomers to watch sky for space junk U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6 SDNs provide a solution for Extreme Networks' XOS Cisco to build small cellular base stations, Chambers says Cisco's Chambers downplays danger of trade war over Huawei RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Cisco acquires data center management company Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Cloupia, a software company that develops products for automating data center operations for the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual resources. Read More Cisco, Qualcomm join to make better use of Wi-Fi in stores and venues Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores and other venues to offer information to visitors over Wi-Fi. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. ZLTO Meets 5 Minute RPO with Silver Peak and Dell EqualLogic When faced with their EqualLogic replication not completing due to limited WAN bandwidth and consistently missing their RPO, ZLTO needed a solution. Learn how using Silver Peak's virtual appliances reduced their bandwidth used for replication by 86%. Learn more. Review: 6 slick open source routers DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense, and Vyatta suit a wide range of devices and networking needs Read More DARPA wants army of networked amateur astronomers to watch sky for space junk There is really so much junk floating around in space the government needs help keeping track of it all. This week the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a program to utilize amateur astronomers to help watch space for any dangerous junk that maybe be threatening satellites or other spacecraft and even the Earth. If you have a telescope, great but the program will even install equipment... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs. Read now. U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6 The IPv6 Forum on Tuesday presented a special award to four U.S. government officials for their pioneering work in promoting IPv6, an emerging upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More SDNs provide a solution for Extreme Networks' XOS Extreme Networks took advantage of the media frenzy caused by the Big Switch launch to announce an upgrade to its SDN strategy yesterday. Previously, Extreme had unveiled the behemoth of a switch, the Black Diamond X8, to be the centerpiece of its SDN and network fabric strategy. Early feedback from Extreme customers has been more than positive, as the product appears to perform as advertised in the... Read More Cisco to build small cellular base stations, Chambers says Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations, building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. Read More Cisco's Chambers downplays danger of trade war over Huawei The U.S. and China are likely to resolve the conflict over potential security threats from Huawei Technologies' network equipment without a trade war, Cisco Systems chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. Read More
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