2013: The 12 months of Cisco

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	2013: The 12 months of Cisco This past year saw several major events and product introductions unfold at Cisco, beginning with an effort to connect cars to the Internet and ending with a solid pipeline in place for its new data center switches and fabric technology. The following is a review of the highlights of the year that was at Cisco, 2013. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More In this Issue If Cisco were Star Trek... Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop What do John Lennon, Bach, Beethoven, Salvador Dali and Truman Capote have in common? 3 Trends That Will Make Life Harder for CIOs in 2014 Huawei sends 400Gbps over next-generation optical network Juniper vs. Palo Alto Networks: Firewall court battle set to begin The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013 Top 10 Buzzblog posts of 2013 Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness WHITE PAPER: Meru Networks Business Drivers For Adopting The Next Generation Of Wi-Fi Higher education, hospitality and healthcare are at the forefront of industries experiencing the tsunami of devices and applications coming onto their networks. Learn what is driving the next generation of Wi-Fi and what key business variables IT leaders have to consider when evaluating 802.11ac. Learn more >> If Cisco were Star Trek... Re-casting Star Trek with the high-profile figures from Cisco and the networking industry. Read More Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop The trio of Cisco, VMware and Citrix are teaming up to provide a new cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed mostly at service providers. The move comes just weeks after Amazon Web Services announced its foray into the DaaS market, and could signal a wave of new DaaS offerings in the market early next year. Read More What do John Lennon, Bach, Beethoven, Salvador Dali and Truman Capote have in common? If those craters could talk, they would have one heck of a hot party on Mercury. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) -- the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919 -- recently approved 10 new names for impact craters on the planet Mercury. Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T Transforming Your Organization with Mobility This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More 3 Trends That Will Make Life Harder for CIOs in 2014 Robots, 3-D printers and wearable tech are indeed cool, but they should raise red flags for IT leaders. Here's how these emerging technologies will cause operations, privacy and user policy headaches for CIOs in 2014. Read More Huawei sends 400Gbps over next-generation optical network Huawei Technologies and Polish operator Exatel have tested a next-generation optical network based on WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology and capable of 400Gbps throughput. Read More Juniper vs. Palo Alto Networks: Firewall court battle set to begin Call it the fist fight over firewalls for 2014. Juniper Networks is going for a knock-out against rival Palo Alto Networks in a patent-dispute lawsuit related to next-generation firewalls that's set to go to trial in Delaware in February. And Palo Alto wants to take out Juniper in its own separate patent lawsuit. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013 It's always a tall order to decide which high-tech stories are the wackiest or coolest of the year but we aren't shy about trying. This year we find all manner of interesting items from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft leaving our solar system and Microsoft developing sensory bra technology to a Verizon employee being locked underground and a man being arrested for stealing 5 cents worth of electricity. Read More Top 10 Buzzblog posts of 2013 As chosen by you, the readers Read More Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from Cisco, which now includes Glue products on its price list and will compensate 14,000 sales people for selling them. Read More
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