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SDN system controls hundreds of Cisco routers; saves contractor time, money
A global environmental engineering company is turning to software-defined networking as a way to boost productivity and save money. MWH Global, a Colorado-based construction manager of wet infrastructure – water transmission and transportation systems – is deploying a software-defined WAN to automate the set up and tear down of branch router networks at remote worksites and simplify management. MWH Global provides environmental engineering, strategic planning, construction, and management for water-related projects, including the expansion of the Panama Canal, building water treatment or desalination plants, water transmission systems, and storage facilities.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

WHITE PAPER: Aerohive

BYOD and Beyond: How To Turn BYOD into Productivity
One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn't just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they're there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. View Now

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Achieve Deeper Network Security and Application Control
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The Internet of Things figures into this IT leader's five-year plan
When Chris LeBeau stepped into the top IT position at Peoria, Ill.-based Advanced Technology Services (ATS) nearly two years ago, he formulated a clear objective for the IT division: putting the right technology tools and capabilities into the hands of the company's 3,000 employees to help them be more efficient and effective. Read More

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4 Key Survival Tips for Planning Your Next Big Data Project
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Riverbed goes mobile with AppInternals 9.0
In 2012, Riverbed acquired OPNET for a cool billion to complement the network performance management (NPM) suite it inherited when it purchased Mazu. The product formerly known as OPNET, AppInternals Xpert was rebranded to SteelCentral AppInternals, and last week the company released version 9.0 of the suite. Read More

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4 Ways Network Monitoring Improves Wireless Networks
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The 10 baddest supercomputers on Earth
The new top 10 The latest twice-yearly edition of the Top500 supercomputer power rankings is here, showing off the biggest and baddest of Big (and, we guess, Bad) Iron. And you thought you had a lot of horsepower in your data center. ? The newcomer to the top 10 in this edition is a mysterious entry from the U.S. government, a massively parallel Cray XC-30 unit using almost 226,000 total cores of Ivy Bridge Xeon processing power for a Pi-tastic 3.14 petaflop score. Where the newcomer is located, and even what its name is, were undisclosed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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Review: Open source proxy servers are capable, but a bit rough around the edges
Artica scores highest in four-product test, IPFire, Squid and Apache also deliver solid proxy services. Read More

How the 'Internet of Thing' will become the Internet of Things
If IoT devices from different brands are to work together in the proximal network independent of the cloud, the industry will need to agree to standards. Read More

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