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	Wireless may replace phone lines in Sandy-ravaged areas of N.Y., N.J. Hurricane Sandy devastated coastal areas in New Jersey and New York last October and left some Verizon Communications customers without copper phone lines. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Eliminating the Challenge of Remote Backup In today's global economy, many companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to backup processes. Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Read Now In this Issue JR Raphael: Verizon and AT&T early upgrade plans are steaming hot piles of rip-off What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion Newer versions of LTE to make rapid advances, ABI says Internet traffic jams, meet your robot nemesis Sharky: Why ask Y? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Empower Your People to Engage and Innovate From the cloud or hosted, outsourced or as a managed service—what is the best way to deploy collaboration services? In this report, Forrester helps IT pros identify key priorities and create an optimal strategy for implementation. Read White Paper JR Raphael: Verizon and AT&T early upgrade plans are steaming hot piles of rip-off Verizon and AT&T are introducing new plans to let you upgrade more often, but they're ridiculously confusing -- and not at all good for your wallet. Read More What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualization may still be too immature for prime time. Read More Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak apparently sees the writing on the data center's walls, announcing a new program today that offers a free upgrade to a virtual edition of its products to users of its hardware appliances. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion Cisco is set to expand its security software portfolio with the acquisition of Sourcefire in a deal worth US$2.7 billion. Read More Newer versions of LTE to make rapid advances, ABI says Emerging technologies for 4G LTE networks are expected to make rapid advances over the next few years, helping mobile networks keep up with data growth and bringing more users worldwide into the LTE fold. Read More Internet traffic jams, meet your robot nemesis On an 80-core computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists have built a tool that might make networks significantly faster just by coming up with better algorithms. Read More Sharky: Why ask Y? Pilot fish gets a message from someone else in IT, telling fish to give Fred access to the Y: drive -- which isn't actually a very useful request, given how many different ways drives are mapped in this company. Read More
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