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	Cisco has this SDN thing covered Who says SDNs threaten Cisco? It may be another market transition that Cisco embraces as an opportunity and growth engine. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >> In this Issue Containers: The new Hypervisors How to shove 50 meters of optical fiber into a microchip Quick look: Inside Amazon's vast distribution business Red Hat OpenShift upgrade reaffirms commitment to PaaS D-Link issues fixes for firmware backdoor in routers Extreme starts anew after Enterasys buy Where we stand with SDN 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 Containers: The new Hypervisors Much of the growth in IT over the last 10 or so years can be attributed in some way or another to virtualization. They key to virtualization is the hypervisor. Whether open source such as Xen or VMware or even Microsoft's HyperV, the hypervisor has ushered in a revolution in IT. There would be no cloud and certainly no Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) without the hypervisor. Now some are saying... Read More How to shove 50 meters of optical fiber into a microchip The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently said its program to develop cutting edge photonics products has yielded two chips that can support long optical delays with low loss useful for a number of applications including wideband wireless systems, optical buffers for all-optical routing networks, and ultra-stable optical interferometers for sensing applications. 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 >> Quick look: Inside Amazon's vast distribution business Amazon has made online product selling and distribution an art form Read More Red Hat OpenShift upgrade reaffirms commitment to PaaS Red Hat has released the second version of its OpenShift Enterprise platform as a service (PaaS), which comes with tools that make it easier to deploy, and provide integration with more hardware options and programming languages. It also is the latest move in the busy PaaS market, which is quickly gaining steam to catch up in importance to the more established IaaS and SaaS markets. Read More WEBCAST: Kaspersky Step Up to the IT Security Challenge Watch this video to discover exclusive market insights from independent analyst Kevin Bailey, Research Director, IDC, on the growing challenges faced by IT managers. Learn More. D-Link issues fixes for firmware backdoor in routers D-Link published patches on Monday for a firmware coding goof that could allow attackers to remotely change the settings of several of its router models. Read More Extreme starts anew after Enterasys buy Now that Extreme Networks has closed its acquisition of Enterasys, it's time to focus on the task at hand as a company twice its previous size. Read More Where we stand with SDN One gauge of industry progress on the software-defined networking front is the momentum of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the user-lead group that is spelling out the core SDN standards and championing the cause. Read More
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