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	Research community looks to SDN to help distribute data from the Large Hadron Collider When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts back up in June, the data collected and distributed worldwide for research will surpass the 200 petabytes exchanged among LHC sites the last time the collider was operational. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell | Eaton Increase Resiliency of Virtual Servers Discover how intelligent power management can protect costly hardware against power fluctuations, prevent data loss in the event of a power outage, and control day-to-day operational costs while ensuring high performance in a virtualized environment. View now In this Issue HP buying SDN company for NFV Here's how Android apps can track you without asking permission Apple finally fixes pesky OS X Yosemite WiFi bug Cisco loses patent appeal Wi-Fi access point scans can betray a person's location Over 4 billion people still have no Internet connection Smartphone location tracking via Wi-Fi signals and via motion sensors for subway riders Feds want terabit-speed optical SDN-based system Bigger, better, faster: What does Wave 2 of 802.11ac have in store? Akamai report: DDoS attacks doubled in Q1 2015, SSDP top attack vector WHITE PAPER: Vmware | CenturyLink 7 Critical Questions to Demystify DRaaS This whitepaper is not a sermon on Disaster Recovery and why you need it. So what is this whitepaper? It is a guide with a goal to make you a well-informed DRaaS customer by helping you pose insightful yet practical questions to DRaaS vendors. View now HP buying SDN company for NFV HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers. Read More Here's how Android apps can track you without asking permission Researchers in Denmark say that it's child's play to track your Android phone via Wi-Fi even if the Wi-Fi is nominally turned off – and even if you didn't let an app track your location. Read More Apple finally fixes pesky OS X Yosemite WiFi bug Ever since OS X Yosemite launched last October, a large swath of users have complained of incessant Wi-Fi connectivity issues. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coresite Infographic: Growing Your Business with Cloud Learn the latest facts and stats on how a multi-cloud environment can reduce costs and help your organization grow. Learn More Cisco loses patent appeal The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled against Cisco's appeal of a patent infringement claim against the company dating back to 2011. Read More Wi-Fi access point scans can betray a person's location Many Android applications collect information on Wi-Fi access points, which researchers contend can be used to figure out where a person is more than 90 percent of the time. The privacy implications of Wi-Fi access point scanning is often overlooked but presents a risk if the information is abused, according to the study. Read More Over 4 billion people still have no Internet connection Mobile broadband is seen as the savior, but barriers such as a lack of network coverage and content in local languages have to be overcome. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Capacity Management Processes Fit for the Cloud Era Read this whitepaper for these 3 takeaways; the complexities of pursuing efficient capacity planning,wow to define functional requirements for your capacity management strategy, and a capacity management strategy that assures service levels while reducing performance risk and hardware footprint. Learn More Smartphone location tracking via Wi-Fi signals and via motion sensors for subway riders Here are two research papers about tracking people via their smartphones that might momentarily make you want to toss your phone into a lake. Both show a 90% or above accuracy in tracking people via their phones' Wi-Fi connections or motion sensors. Read More Feds want terabit-speed optical SDN-based system A branch in the US Department of Energy want to take software-defined network technology and combine it with a high-speed underlying optical system that will be capable of supporting large scientific applications. Read More Bigger, better, faster: What does Wave 2 of 802.11ac have in store? Wireless is all around us, but it's something we take for granted. Read More Akamai report: DDoS attacks doubled in Q1 2015, SSDP top attack vector The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in first quarter of 2015 has more than doubled the number of DDoS attacks in Q1 of 2014, according to Akamai Technologies' Q1 2015 State of the Internet Security report. Read More
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