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	Another start-up targeting SDNs, Cisco's dominance They are coming out of the woodwork. Another SDN start-up has cropped up, this one north of the border in Canada. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. Download your complementary checklist In this Issue Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system Gartner: Growth in cloud computing to shape 2013 security trends Six free databases with commercial-quality features Addressing WAN packet loss, Part 2 Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares Tech firms dominate Reuters' list of top 100 innovators in 2012 IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off 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! Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to connect many nodes into a single high performance computer (HPC), you went with InfiniBand. Read More Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space A couple of years ago, there was great debate as to whether Tom Brady-led Patriots or the Peyton Manning-led Colts were the "team of the decade" for the decade ending in 2010. In tech, though, we have no ESPN or JT the Brick to pose such questions, but if we were to give an award to the "technology of the decade" for that same time period, there would be no question as to what the winner... Read More Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system The US government's overly complicated way of classifying and declassifying information needs to be dumped and reinvented with the help of a huge technology injection if it is to keep from being buried under its own weight. That was one of the main conclusions of a government board tasked with making recommendations on exactly how the government should transform the current security classification... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Gartner: Growth in cloud computing to shape 2013 security trends It's the time when predictions for the new year run high, and when it comes to IT security, Gartner analysts are predicting that 2013 is going to be about expansion of cloud computing and the struggle by the enterprise to achieve appropriate security for it. Read More Six free databases with commercial-quality features Microsoft, Oracle offer impressive free versions of their commercial offerings, but MariaDB wins our test Read More Addressing WAN packet loss, Part 2 Last time, we began our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We listed six different possibilities, and went through how one of them can significantly improve application performance in the face of packet loss. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns. Read More Tech firms dominate Reuters' list of top 100 innovators in 2012 Technology firms dominates Thomson Reuters' 2012 list of the World's Top 100 Most Innovative Organisations, with the semiconductor industry leading the march, but UK companies were noticeably lacking from the list. Read More IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off A battle is brewing between two standards bodies - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - over which group will be the primary source of the underlying communications protocols that allow the Internet to operate in the future. Read More
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