Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares

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	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. 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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: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless" Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse. Read More Study finds telecommuters getting jobbed About a third of telecommuters add 5 to 7 hours to their work week vs. those who work only in the office, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin and University of Iowa. Read More Eucalyptus: We're the Amazon of private cloud companies Late last year Daniel Bozeman, a software engineer at wireless analytics firm Mosaik Solutions, wanted to build a private cloud. The company is a heavy user of Amazon Web Services public cloud resources, and Bozeman had a vision of creating a system that would allow him to seamlessly run workloads either in the company's own data center, or in Amazon's public cloud. 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! Researcher touts breakthrough in understanding how tin whiskers screw up everything from servers to smartphones Rather than cursing out Apple, Sony, HP or Cisco the next time your smartphone or server conks out, maybe you should instead be directing your frustration at tiny metal filaments that grow inside the devices called tin whiskers. Read More Big data, EHR driving healthcare IT innovation Healthcare IT adoption in the United States today is largely defined by requirements to demonstrate the meaningful use of electronic heath record software by 2014. Read More Google Play now lets businesses host their own app stores Google announced that companies with their own in-house Android applications can now distribute them internally via the new Private Channel feature of the Play Store. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy. Read More Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users, including those with personally-owned devices, on corporate or retail wireless LANs. Read More Cisco's internal security team fights to corral BYOD, malware and Wild West environment Many organizations have a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) that swoops into action to battle malware outbreaks, other types of cyberattacks and possible insider threats, and at networking giant Cisco, that CSIRT team is made up of about 60 people trying to protect a business with about 75,000 employees. Read More
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