Network spending patterns unchanged in 3 years

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	Network spending patterns unchanged in 3 years Less than half of the respondents to a recent survey say their networking budgets are increasing this year and next from 2012 levels. The InfoPro Networking Survey from 451 Research found that 40% of the 155 networking professionals interviewed note a spending increase in 2013, while only 38% expect a budget increase in 2014. Read More WHITE PAPER: Spirent Communications Challenges for Modern Networks Built Using SDN and OpenFlow The Testing Challenges of SDN and OpenFlow white paper Covers Emerging network deployment scenarios, Current shifts in traffic type crossing networks and Challenges with Cost, Agility and Design. Read Now In this Issue Cisco's UC announcements at Collaboration Summit are good for everybody In search of the mythical computerized SynthAxe Supersonic dream: Remembering the Concorde Cisco fixes serious security flaws in networking, communications products Best Halloween musical light shows World's craziest Halloween coffins WEBCAST: HP HP Software-Defined Networking KnowledgeVault Exchange Software-defined networking a networking paradigm shift that holds great promise for today and tomorrow's IT operations. In this KnowledgeVault, there are informative videos, tools, white papers and research all designed to help you get the most out of SDN technology. View Now Cisco's UC announcements at Collaboration Summit are good for everybody Cisco held its annual Collaboration Summit this week in Boca Raton, Florida. This year's event was, in many ways, the coming-out party for the newly appointed GM and SVP for the Collaboration Business Unit, Rowan Trollope. In his opening remarks, Trollope was refreshingly frank about the challenges in the UC industry today and how complexity and a lack of user-friendly solutions have held the industry... Read More In search of the mythical computerized SynthAxe Interesting post from the curator of the Computer History Museum who says that of all the possible historical items he'd like to get his hands on for the museum would be a computerized, pseudo-guitar device called a SynthAxe. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Wan Deduplication: Getting More by Sending Less Recently, data deduplication has made its way from the storage to the networking community. More specifically, it has become an important tool for optimizing application performance across the WAN. This paper discusses how WAN deduplication works, and how it can be effectively deployed as a complement to existing storage deduplication solutions. Learn more >> Supersonic dream: Remembering the Concorde Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the last supersonic passenger flight. Read More Cisco fixes serious security flaws in networking, communications products Cisco Systems released software security updates Wednesday to address denial-of-service and arbitrary command execution vulnerabilities in several products, including a known flaw in the Apache Struts development framework used by some of them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. The Differences Between Network Memory & Application Caching Enterprises require an application acceleration solution that spans all types of traffic, one that is easy to manage, and 100% data coherency when supporting business-critical applications. This white paper will address these issues and offer a solution that addresses these enterprise requirements. Learn more >> Best Halloween musical light shows Techies wire up spooky home light shows to scare/entertain the neighborhood. Read More World's craziest Halloween coffins From KISS caskets to lions and airplanes, a plethora of burial boxes populate the world Read More
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