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	Here comes bare metal and NFV for the enterprise Two hardware vendors this week unveiled products to bring commodity switching and virtualization to enterprises through service providers. Bare metal switch supplier Pica8 this week rolled out a Power-over-Ethernet switches to be sold into enterprises by service providers as managed service customer premises equipment (CPE). And Ciena announced availability of the 3938vi Service Virtualization Switch, an Ethernet CPE platform with virtualized network function (VNF) integration. Read More WEBCAST: Netmotion Wireless The World's Only Self-Diagnosing Connectivity Solution Losing mobile connectivity is a productivity killer. Work stops while IT tracks the problem: is it the firewall? The VPN? The device? There is a better way. Join this on-demand webcast to learn how to diagnose connectivity problems faster, and track these issues to build an intelligent framework for a smooth-running mobile environment. Learn more >> In this Issue Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide Standards are coming for containers Why your business should upgrade to 802.11AC Wave 2 Wi-Fi NSA uses OpenFlow for tracking... its network Cavium wins 'SDN Idol' award at Open Networking Summit 2015 Enterprises lukewarm to SDNs Microsoft needs SDN for Azure cloud AT&T looking at white boxes as CPE Cisco vet to head SDN start-up Silver Peak launches MPLS killer WEBCAST: IBM Building a Multi-Tenant Big Data Environment Does your organization face competitive or regulatory imperatives that require higher quality big data analysis in ever shorter amounts of time, even as data volumes explode? Learn More Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide In its new botnet research report, 'Safeguarding the Internet,' Level 3 uses its own threat intelligence, combined with other data feeds, to define trends in botnet behavior, DDoS attacks and malware. Read More Standards are coming for containers A list of leading cloud, storage and virtualization companies are backing a new effort named the Open Container Project, which aims to create a set of standards for the fast-growing technology. Read More Why your business should upgrade to 802.11AC Wave 2 Wi-Fi Four reasons why now is the time to upgrade to 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Building a Multi-Tenant Big Data Environment Does your organization face competitive or regulatory imperatives that require higher quality big data analysis in ever shorter amounts of time, even as data volumes explode? Learn More NSA uses OpenFlow for tracking... its network Just as the industry is becoming more comfortable with SDNs, the NSA says it's using them too. Read More Cavium wins 'SDN Idol' award at Open Networking Summit 2015 This week the fifth Open Networking Summit was held in Santa Clara, the heart of Silicon Valley. As in years past, the event held an 'SDN Idol' competition where several vendors entered an SDN-related product for a set of judges to vote on to create a set of finalists. Read More Enterprises lukewarm to SDNs Even though service providers are well on their way with SDNs, enterprise adoption of the technology is slowed by a host of issues. Chief among them is cultural inertia. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Building a Multi-Tenant Big Data Environment Does your organization face competitive or regulatory imperatives that require higher quality big data analysis in ever shorter amounts of time, even as data volumes explode? Learn More Microsoft needs SDN for Azure cloud Microsoft's Azure couldn't scale without SDN. The Microsoft cloud, through which the company's software products are delivered, has 22 hyper-scale regions around the world. Azure storage and compute usage is doubling every six months, and Azure lines up 90,000 new subscribers a month. Read More AT&T looking at white boxes as CPE AT&T is considering offering bare metal switches and servers to consumers as customer premises equipment for the carrier's services. Read More Cisco vet to head SDN start-up SDN start-up PLUMgrid has named a former Cisco veteran as its new CEO. Larry Lang, who left Cisco in 2009 after a 16-year career, is PLUMgrid's new CEO. Read More Silver Peak launches MPLS killer Traditional WANs are expensive to run, offer little in the way of flexibility, are hard to secure and network managers typically have little visibility into the types of applications and traffic patterns that traverse the network. So, why haven't more organizations evolved from a legacy network to something more current, like an Internet based WAN? Read More
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