Brocade CEO says they built an easy button for IP networks, are benefiting from SDN/NFV

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	Brocade CEO says they built an easy button for IP networks, are benefiting from SDN/NFV Brocade is best known for its storage network products, but CEO Lloyd Carney, who has lead the company for almost three years now, says Brocade is making great strides on the IP network side of the house by reducing complexity. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently stopped by Carney's office for an update. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems The Power of the Next-Generation WAN This Network World white paper examines these factors and discusses how a software-defined WAN solution can help enterprises ensure application availability, reduce the cost of bandwidth delivery, and ensure the end user experience. Learn More In this Issue New endpoint security tools target zero-day attacks Deep into Drupal, Cisco starts to give back to open source community OpenStack tool helps new users find relevant cloud projects Cisco SDN user says just pick what you need Oracle just made its biggest Sparc announcement since buying Sun Fixing internet VPNs with software-defined WAN Cisco acquires IoT analytics company WHITE PAPER: DocuSign Pitching Paper: The Case for Electronic Contract Execution As the saying goes "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link." So with business processes that lack the ability to execute the contract or form process with the same speed and control, the value of the whole chain is reduced. Enter electronic contract execution (ECE), the missing link in truly streamlined business process management. View now New endpoint security tools target zero-day attacks Traditional anti-virus doesn't work well enough to be the sole line of defense against endpoint exploits. And while the traditional AV vendors have learned some new tricks and offer some solid features, most enterprises need more. They want an endpoint product that can prevent zero-day exploits and they want to be more proactive. We looked at two relatively new products, Carbon Black (now owned by Bit9) and Cylance Protect. Both are designed to approach securing your endpoints from a different and more complete perspective. Read the full review. Read More Deep into Drupal, Cisco starts to give back to open source community Cisco has plenty of reasons – more than $400 million of them, in fact – to be grateful for Drupal since migrating its Support Community portal to the open source content management system early last year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Jabra Why Your Remote Workers Hate You (It's Not What You Think) Unified Communications has made what was once impossible - meaningful collaboration with people who aren't in the room - not only possible but quite promising. But there's a downside to remote collaboration that no one likes to talk about. Learn More OpenStack tool helps new users find relevant cloud projects OpenStack Foundation, the backer of an open-source project for software to build cloud services, has launched Project Navigator, an online tool to make it easier for new users to choose from the over 25 cloud-related services or projects offered under its aegis. Read More Cisco SDN user says just pick what you need You don't have to go all in on Cisco's SDN to reap many of its benefits. That's what Danish cloud provider Venzo A/S found with its implementation of Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Comparative Analysis NSS Labs reported that NetScaler AppFirewall achieved an overall block rate of 99.8% at $1.93 TCO per protected Connection Per Second – the lowest TCO of all contenders – that placed it in the Recommended section of their Web Application Firewall Security Value Map. Learn more >> Oracle just made its biggest Sparc announcement since buying Sun When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems five years ago, Larry Ellison made a lot of noise about how owning the entire systems stack, from applications to silicon, would allow him to do unique things with Oracle's servers. After five years of bluster and hype, he may finally have delivered -- but will customers buy what he's selling? Read More Fixing internet VPNs with software-defined WAN Today's site-to-site Internet VPNs should be seen as the 'low-hanging fruit' for initial SD-WAN deployments. Read More Cisco acquires IoT analytics company Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire ParStream, a privately held developer of databade analytics tools based in Cologne, Germany. Read More
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