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Cisco puts enterprises under Insieme control
Cisco this week is unveiling an enterprise version of its Insieme controller that's intended to allow IT to extend policy-based automation and configuration to WAN and access networks. 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

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WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies
The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More

A10 revamps lineup on multiple fronts
Application delivery controller manufacturer A10 Networks rolled out new hardware, pricing and connectivity with a range of SDN and cloud services today, in an announcement that serves to underline the company's recent recovery. Read More

INSIDER

10 big myths about Big Data
Big Data has dominated tech news of late. It has been touted as a possible solution for everything from intrusion detection to fraud prevention to curing cancer and setting optimal product prices. Read More

Power to the portable: 3 high-performance mobile workstations
When you're running a large-scale simulation or editing a professional video, you need more computing power than most laptops can give. In this roundup, we review three high-powered Windows mobile workstations. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments

Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP
Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More

Old-school Wi-Fi is slowing down networks, Cisco says
The early Wi-Fi standards that opened the world's eyes to wire-free networking are now holding back the newer, faster protocols that followed in their wake, Cisco Systems said. Read More

21 more crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers
This year the TSA found everything from Bazooka rounds to a medieval mace and bones. Read More

Macbook Pro delivers blazing speed in Gigabit Wi-Fi test
All five tested products validate the superior throughput of 802.11ac. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Transforming Business Performance with Hybrid Networks
Rapidly adopting virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications to minimize costs and enable seamless collaboration and communication is significantly straining the traditional network paradigm. Learn how to transform network architectures to deliver the right performance and reliability cost-effectively while retaining control. Learn more >>

Can TVs and refrigerators really spew botnet spam?
Refrigerators might hold spam to keep it cold in the meat bin. But in the Internet of Things world, can fridges connected to the Web blast malicious e-mail as part of a botnet? And how about TVs or other smart devices? In the stranger side of the Internet of Things, Proofpoint said it uncovered a cyberattack in which compromised refrigerators and TVs sent out malicious e-mail. But Symantec, says it saw no evidence of such an attack. Read More

It's getting easier to steal your neighbors' unused bandwidth over Wi-Fi
A new project from Telefonica called BeWifi enables internet users to snag unused bandwidth from Wi-Fi networks running nearby. So, if you have a family of five trying to stream five different movies at the same time, and neighbors who happen to be out for the night, you and your family could borrow their unused bandwidth until the neighbors come home and log on again. Read More

Flash your way to better VMware performance
PernixData FVP clusters server-side flash to improve virtual machine performance and reduce SAN latency. Read More

Surprise! Cisco behind mystery hold music on This American Life story
Listening to a podcast over the weekend of NPR's This American Life, I thought I might gain a reprieve from the tech business news that dominates my work life. But no, somehow Cisco CallManager wound up featuring prominantly in a story about a senior citizen's obsession with the hold music at his doctor's office -- mysterious music that apparently captivated a lot of other people, too. Read More

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FIRST LOOK: New Cisco Nexus switches

Cisco extends its Nexus data center switching line.

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