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	Fave Raves: 25 IT pros name their favorite products Each year we ask IT pros what they love -- which enterprise tech products make their lives easier, provide the security they need, and help keep end users happy and productive. See what 25 IT pros had to say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Datacenter Transformation IT departments are under pressure to deliver higher-performance services worldwide. To achieve this, they must transform their datacenters using a combination of consolidation, virtualization, and automation in order extend the datacenter's virtual edge to branch offices where services are delivered locally from centrally managed infrastructure. Read now In this Issue Why Blue Coat acquired Solera Networks Hot cloud products IT pros swear by Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch Google targets developers with cloud-based backend kit PayPal's $100,000 Battle Hack competition wants cool social apps Despite uncertainties, 46% of IT employees are looking Panelists decry lax security in medical devices Microsoft, US feds disrupt Citadel botnet network WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 802.11ac Network-Readiness Checklist Products based on the upcoming 802.11ac standard are going to dominate the enterprise WLAN landscape so, what should organizations do today to prepare? This technical checklist offers a framework for evaluating the features and benefits of 802.11ac for establishing a roll out plan. Read Now Why Blue Coat acquired Solera Networks A few weeks ago, Blue Coat Systems acquired Solera Networks. No one was surprised about the acquisition of Solera as it plays in the white-hot big data security analytics market. That said, many people remain perplexed by the acquiring company. Several dozen reporters, vendors, and end users have already posed a common question to me: Why Blue Coat? Read More Hot cloud products IT pros swear by Spending on cloud services is so far just a fraction of total IT spending -- roughly 3% -- but the market is growing. IT pros explain what they like about their favorite cloud-based security, storage and management services. Read More Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework. Read More WEBCAST: Ipswitch, Inc VIDEO: Layer 2 Discovery & Asset Reporting WhatsUp Gold includes Layer 2 discovery as part of the core product bringing you automatically generated Layer 2 topology maps, IT asset reporting, current & historical network documentation, and easy-to-use troubleshooting tools. All of this available within the same interface as all your network management data. View now. Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch Cisco this week upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance. Read More Google targets developers with cloud-based backend kit Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Read More PayPal's $100,000 Battle Hack competition wants cool social apps PayPal this week kicked off a global software-coding competition called Battle Hack, challenging software developers to devise on their own a socially useful application that makes use of PayPal payment processing. The grand prize: $100,000. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Inc The Distributed Enterprise: Remote Access and IT Management This white paper examines and analyzes the increases in uptime and security provided by out-of-band access and control tools. Learn More Despite uncertainties, 46% of IT employees are looking The percentage of IT employees interested in getting a new job is rising, even as they lose confidence in the economic outlook, new survey data shows. Read More Panelists decry lax security in medical devices Security for medical equipment such as MRI machines and pacemakers is woeful, even though these devices today connect to networks and sometimes face risks from malware or hacking, according to a panel of university researchers speaking at this week's Design Automation Conference. Read More Microsoft, US feds disrupt Citadel botnet network Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have taken aim at a botnet network based on malware called Citadel that is held responsible for stealing people's online banking information and personal identities. Read More
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