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	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 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 What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013 University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps Why Gigamon's network big data play is important Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Review: VMware vSphere 5.5 adds speed and usability Intel signs tech partnership for 49ers' Silicon Valley stadium 5 strategies for post-holiday BYOD problems Perspective: Throw Windows XP a lifeline, Microsoft WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013 Nobody bats a thousand, and Microsoft is no different. Here's a quick look at five things Microsoft did right in 2013 and five it did wrong. Read More University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps The University of Florida is just putting the wraps on a remarkable year of IT upgrades. The school, which has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 buildings, installed a new supercomputer in a new data center, installed a 100Gbps link to Inernet2, and upgraded its Campus Research Network from 20G to 200Gbps while adding support for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix got the lowdown on all of the developments from Erik Deumens, director of research computing. Read More Why Gigamon's network big data play is important This week, traffic visibility solution provider Gigamon announced its Unified Visibility Fabric, which provides Traffic Intelligence to help enterprises and services providers get a better handle on what traffic is flowing across the network. Gigamon has beefed up the application and services layer of its visibility fabric with new applications and features. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark Blue Coat Systems has acquired anti-malware firm Norman Shark for an undisclosed price, in order to integrate its technologies, such as sandboxing, into other security products available through Blue Coat. 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 Review: VMware vSphere 5.5 adds speed and usability VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware's flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the vSphere Web Client and the redesign of the vCenter single sign-on architecture are good reasons for all vSphere customers -- large or small -- to plan on making the move to vSphere 5.5 without delay. Read More WEBCAST: SAP The Path to Big Data Register today to reserve your spot, Tuesday, December 17, at 11:00 AM CST, to hear from top IDC analyst, about the path you can start taking now to enable your organization to get the benefits of turning data into actionable insights with exciting x86 technology. Is the data explosion today a liability or a competitive advantage for your business? View now Intel signs tech partnership for 49ers' Silicon Valley stadium Any Silicon Valley denizens hoping for a name change to the San Francisco 00110001ers may be disappointed, but the 49ers NFL football team is lining up with local legend Intel for a major technology and sponsorship deal at its new stadium in Santa Clara. Read More 5 strategies for post-holiday BYOD problems Christmas is fast approaching. Now, and after the office is back to normal after the first of the year, employees are going to return with several shiny new gadgets, along with the expectation that they'll "just work" in the corporate environment. Security will be a distant afterthought, because it's still viewed as a process that hinders productivity. Read More Perspective: Throw Windows XP a lifeline, Microsoft Microsoft's support for WIndows XP ends in less than four months, and the company has warned users repeatedly that it's time to move on. But a lot of them are sticking with the aged OS. And for Microsoft, that's a problem. Read More
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