Cisco pumping $1 billion more into Intercloud

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	Cisco pumping $1 billion more into Intercloud Cisco on Monday said it is expanding on its Intercloud multi-cloud service provider initiative with another $1 billion investment, designed to lead to more products, data centers and partners. Announced six months ago, Intercloud is a global interconnection of public, private and hybrid clouds. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: PC Connection Need to justify a storage refresh? Get SMART, get started. Storage modernization unlocks the full potential of your data center. It increases storage capacity, boosts performance, and reduces costs per gigabyte. Click to continue In this Issue Coca-Cola piloting free Wi-Fi at vending machines HP launches SDN App Store IDG Contributor Network: More coffin nails in cable's aging multi-channel model Cisco names new security chief after Young departs Chambers again dashes EMC speculation Comcast's latest comments on TWC merger show near-total divorce from reality Saisei says don't play games with the hybrid WAN Improved patch tackles new Shellshock attack vectors Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too 9 things to look for in Windows 9 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Brocade Communications Systems The Trick to Future-Proofing Your Networking Career Get a leg up on your peers with a free Brocade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Certification to future-proof your career and your network. This course will help you: Understand sophisticated, multitier networks within virtualized environments and stand out from your peers by becoming an expert within your IT organization Sign up today and get a promo code for the free Brocade Network Functions Virtualization Certification program (a $650 value), and a free 60-day trial of the Brocade Vyatta vRouter. Coca-Cola piloting free Wi-Fi at vending machines Coca-Cola is experimenting with point-of-sale innovations in South Africa, including knowledge enhancing and Wi-Fi at its vending machines. Read More HP launches SDN App Store A few months later than planned, it includes six partner and two HP products. Read More IDG Contributor Network: More coffin nails in cable's aging multi-channel model AT&T has pitched a cheap, $40 wired Internet and cable TV plan aimed squarely at cord cutters. Cord cutters are those consumers who balk at coughing up large sums of money every month for swaths of channels they don't watch. They watch a la carte via the Internet. AT&T's offering, good only for the first year, includes Internet, basic cable, HBO and Amazon Prime. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More Cisco names new security chief after Young departs Cisco has replaces its security leadership after the departure of Senior Vice President Chris Young. David Goeckeler, a 14 year Cisco veteran, has been chosen as vice-president of the Security Business Group effective immediately. Read More Chambers again dashes EMC speculation As he has done several times before, Cisco CEO John Chambers dismissed speculation that his company may acquire storage giant EMC. Reports surfaced this week that EMC was shopping itself around as a candidate for a "merger of equals," and had talked to HP and Dell about possible linkups. Read More Comcast's latest comments on TWC merger show near-total divorce from reality The largest broadband provider in America's attempt to merge with the second-largest is a win for consumers, and will create a vibrant marketplace with more competition, not less - according, at least, to the largest broadband provider in America. The public statement accompanying Comcast's official response to the FCC, after the latest comment period on the proposed merger with TWC, is a classic piece of corporate doublespeak. Read More : McAfee Needle in a Datastack Report The volume of security-related data today can make identifying a threat like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yet collecting more data also plays a transformational role in information security. Organizations need to learn how to harness and sift through this wealth of information to protect themselves from the threats they face every day. Learn more >> Saisei says don't play games with the hybrid WAN "Say, Say, Say, what you want, but don't play games with the hybrid WAN. Take, take, take the time you need, but make the apps run as best they can." Read More Improved patch tackles new Shellshock attack vectors System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors. Read More Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1. Read More 9 things to look for in Windows 9 Microsoft is discussing the future of Windows Tuesday at which time it could make public some of these rumored upgrades. Read More
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