Meraki buy is about more than cloud Wi-Fi to Cisco

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	Meraki buy is about more than cloud Wi-Fi to Cisco Even though Meraki made a name for itself in cloud-based WLANs, Cisco's long-term goals for its new acquisition go beyond just Wi-Fi. Read More WEBCAST: HP Storage in the Cloud Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now! In this Issue Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth Migrating to cloud computing? Don't forget DNS Cisco revs up competition with '09 blade plans, security moves Identity vendor Ping adds to wares to support SaaS 10 really cool university networking labs Cisco blockbuster: Acquiring cloud network company Meraki for $1.2B Private clouds showing up on IT's agenda Microsoft to unveil tools to push identity platform into the cloud Cloud-like service offers customizable servers, storage and network Afore introduces WAN acceleration gear for data-center backup RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year's $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones, according analyst firm Gartner. Read More Migrating to cloud computing? Don't forget DNS Before you mothball your data center and start using servers distributed across the 'Net, you need to rethink your DNS infrastructure. Read More Cisco revs up competition with '09 blade plans, security moves Next year will see Cisco deliver a "Big Bang" in switching, blade servers for the data center, high-definition TelePresence conferencing for the home, and a security plan for virtualized and cloud computing environments. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Identity vendor Ping adds to wares to support SaaS Ping Identity Tuesday added to its tools for supporting single sign-on to online services by acquiring appliance-based technology from Sxip Identity for integrating hosted applications and corporate directories. Read More 10 really cool university networking labs 10 really cool university networking labs featuring advances in wireless, cloud computing, security and more. Read More Cisco blockbuster: Acquiring cloud network company Meraki for $1.2B Cisco said Sunday it intends to acquire Meraki, a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN, security appliances, and mobile devices for $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. Read More 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! Private clouds showing up on IT's agenda Enterprise IT shops are starting to embrace the notion of building private clouds, modeling their own networks after public service providers such as Amazon and Google. Read More Microsoft to unveil tools to push identity platform into the cloud Microsoft Tuesday will unveil an open identity platform code-named Geneva that extends to the cloud and includes development tools, gateway technologies and provides long-awaited support for the SAML 2.0 protocol. Read More Cloud-like service offers customizable servers, storage and network A new cloud-like managed hosted service offers quick access to customizable servers, storage and network resources. Read More Afore introduces WAN acceleration gear for data-center backup Afore is introducing an Ethernet acceleration box geared toward making cloud computing, live migration of virtual machines and data-center-to-data-center backup practical and less expensive. Read More
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