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	8 sure-fire ways to screw up a cloud contract Cloud licensing's become so complex that it's easy to pay too much or get burned later on. Here are some tips to make sure you're getting your money's worth. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down Did you know: 73% of enterprises lose productivity due to poor application performance? And that's just the beginning of the issues resulting from poor application performance. Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More. In this Issue Cisco facing product transition issues The 10 fastest supercomputers on Earth F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? HP: 90% of Apple iOS mobile apps show security vulnerabilities Universities diving into Big Data WAN specialist Talari adds $15M in venture funding 10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS 20 hottest tech toys for the holidays New Juniper CEO: Meet the real Shaygan Kheradpir RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds New Video: How to Configure NetFlow v9 on a Cisco Router Networks can grow fast—really fast. This rapid growth leads to increased network traffic, more endpoints, and new IPs consuming bandwidth. Key to a complete understanding of network behavior at your growing organization is the ability to collect and analyze NetFlow data in your routers. SolarWinds new video shows you how, in less than 5 minutes! Looking to enable Flexible NetFlow on your Cisco routers? In less than 5 minutes, SolarWinds lead Sales Engineer demonstrates how to enable NetFlow v9 on Cisco routers with custom flow records. Watch the short how to video now! Cisco facing product transition issues Downgrades of Cisco stock have begun following the company's shocking outlook on its fiscal second quarter. Cisco expects Q2 revenue to decline 8% to 10% from last year due to a shortfall in orders and backlog, especially from emerging market countries. That dropped Cisco stock by as much as 13% on Thursday, Nov. 14. Read More The 10 fastest supercomputers on Earth The latest twice-yearly Top500 report is out – see which supercomputers are the world's fastest. Read More F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? At first blush, F5 Networks' new Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services might appear to compete with new offerings from Cisco and VMware. But no, F5 CEO John McAdam and executive vice president of Strategic Solutions Manuel Rivelo tell IDG Communications Chief Content Officer John Gallant that F5 is very much in sync with these two data center giants (we did not, however, press them on the relationship between Cisco and VMware). Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Practices for Success This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now HP: 90% of Apple iOS mobile apps show security vulnerabilities HP said security testing it conducted on more than 2,000 Apple iOS mobile apps developed for commercial use by some 600 large companies in 50 countries showed that nine out of 10 had serious vulnerabilities. Read More Universities diving into Big Data Educational institutions are increasingly on the case of making sense of growing piles of big data, and the latest data science effort involves UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and New York University joining forces under a program funded via $37.8 million in grants. Read More WAN specialist Talari adds $15M in venture funding Talari Networks, a San Jose maker of WAN virtualization/aggregation appliances and software, added $15 million to its coffers via a new round of venture financing. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Business Value of Creating Exceptional Digital Experiences Join us for this live broadcast on November 21, 2013 at 11AM US ET to review the findings of IDC's recent analytical report titled: "The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions." Register Now 10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS A bazillion years ago in Internet time (aka 1995), Brendan Eich, Marc Andreessen, and the rest of Netscape looked at the World Wide Web and saw a sparsely tagged world of static documents -- a computational desert where a programmer's seed could find no purchase. Read More 20 hottest tech toys for the holidays Cool Yule Tools 2013: Our Tester Elf-approved picks for awesome gadgety goodness. Read More New Juniper CEO: Meet the real Shaygan Kheradpir Juniper Networks has named Shaygan Kheradpir as its new CEO, effective Jan. 1, as the company looks to build on its success in the carrier router market and turn around its enterprise switching and IT security businesses. Here's a closer look at the new man in charge of one of Cisco's biggest rivals. Read More
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