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	Where does SDN make sense? We ask Fidelity's Director of Global Network Architecture | Cisco, Juniper, Brocade to virtualize AT&T
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	Best NAS boxes for small business If you're looking for a desktop Network Attached Storage device, the current crop of NAS appliances should make you happy. Every box we tested worked well, provided boatloads of storage, and many cost less today per terabyte than they did just a few years ago. Four of the seven units we tested come with enough software, mostly free open source applications, to run a complete small business and provide Web hosting. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive View Now>> It is crucial to thoroughly understand the systems management capabilities of any WLAN being considered, since this will be the largest ongoing expense of the overall deployment. Learn how to evaluate properly by reading Aerohive's WLAN Definitive Guide. WLAN Buyer's Guide In this Issue Where does SDN make sense? We ask Fidelity's Director of Global Network Architecture Cisco, Juniper, Brocade to virtualize AT&T Startup NodePrime decloaks, wants to manage your whole data center IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads Cisco acquires security consultancy IBM-Box enterprise deal yields new content tools Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon's big cloud conference A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks at more than 150Gbps SDN start-up PLUMgrid opens up on OpenStack WEBCAST: Aerohive View now>> With the development of 802.11ac, WLANs surpass the gigabit speed barrier. Watch this webinar recording featuring author of "802.11ac: A Survival Guide" (O'Reily), Matthew Gast, for a discussion on 802.11ac and why it's posed to become the 802.11 standard of choice and how to incorporate it into your network plans. Gigabit Speed Wireless Networks with 802.11ac Where does SDN make sense? We ask Fidelity's Director of Global Network Architecture Carlos Matos has been following Software Defined Networking from the get-go as one of the earliest members of the Open Networking Users Group (ONUG). We recently caught up with Matos, the Director of Global Network Architecture at Fidelity Investments, to get his view on how and where companies are likely to benefit from SDN. Read More Cisco, Juniper, Brocade to virtualize AT&T Cisco, Juniper Networks and Brocade are intent on granting customer AT&T's wishes. They have been lined up to develop virtualized interpretations of their respective routers for AT&T's SDN CPE project. AT&T plans to run the routers as virtualized network functions (VNF) on bare metal hardware running at AT&T operating system and software control stack. Read More Startup NodePrime decloaks, wants to manage your whole data center San Francisco-based startup NodePrime wants to be the proverbial single pane of glass that you use to manage your complicated, heavily virtualized data center, the company announced as it exited stealth today with a $7 million seed funding round in the books. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive View Now>> Watch this webinar recording featuring Forrester Research for an overview of the current 802.11ac technology, a discussion on how high-speed Wi-Fi & application control impacts your network architecture, and take a look at how a proper network strategy can save you 40% or more on your investment. Understanding the Network Impact of 802.11ac IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads IBM's Bluemix development platform is already available in public and hosted private cloud versions. On Thursday, the company announced a third option for customers that need to build apps behind a firewall. Called Bluemix Local, it adds new hybrid cloud app-development capabilities, giving enterprises the ability to build apps securely and deploy them easily across public, private and on-premise environments. Read More Cisco acquires security consultancy Cisco this week said it intends to purchase Portcullis, a privately held cybersecurity consultancy based in the United Kingdom.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, Read More IBM-Box enterprise deal yields new content tools IBM and Box have started to deliver on a partnership they announced in June to help enterprises users share content and collaborate. The companies want to combine IBM's back-end smarts with Box's user experience in new tools for both local and cloud data. The ultimate aim is to help usher enterprises into the cloud era of content management. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Read Now Cloud networking introduces a new way to deploy, operate, & manage distributed enterprise networks. It delivers network capabilities via a cloud infrastructure with minimal capital investment or IT resources. This paper provides details on cloud networking, the state of the cloud market & its benefits The Benefits of Cloud Networking Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon's big cloud conference Never before has the competition in the IaaS public cloud market been as ripe as it is now between Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Read More A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks at more than 150Gbps A Linux botnet has grown so powerful that it can generate crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks at over 150 Gbps, many times greater than a typical company's infrastructure can withstand. Read More SDN start-up PLUMgrid opens up on OpenStack SDN start-up PLUMgrid this week unveiled the latest version of its software for building OpenStack clouds. Version 4.0 of PLUMgrid's Open Networking Suite (ONS) for OpenStack supports multiple OpenStack distributions, Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) plugins, high availability and dynamic Tunnel Heatmap for improved visibility into physical and virtual layers. Read More
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