Cisco, Juniper, Brocade to virtualize AT&T

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	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. Read More WEBCAST: Dell VMware Citrix Nividia Accelerated Graphics in VDI The speakers in this webcast will discuss the groundbreaking changes impacting accelerated graphics in the desktop virtualization market. How is the market changing? What are the speakers hearing from their customers? They will discuss the role of hyper converged infrastructure and changing virtualization. Learn More In this Issue HP goes after Cisco, Arista with open source OS Startup NodePrime decloaks, wants to manage your whole data center INSIDER Security risks increase as cloud data centers change Cisco fixes privilege escalation flaws in AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Microsoft, Google bury the hatchet with global patent deal Microsoft prepares a new SQL language for Big Data Microsoft offers businesses a 'premium' network link to Office 365 Cloud-based 'digital twins' could make power plants more efficient Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon's big cloud conference Microsoft bolsters Azure in containers, security WEBCAST: Citrix Systems Video: What is WAN Virtualization This short animated video provides a quick overview of WAN virtualization. Watch and see how Citrix CloudBridge can revolutionize the enterprise WAN for greater reliability and cost savings while providing a better user experience. Learn More HP goes after Cisco, Arista with open source OS HP is spearheading multivendor development of an open source network operating system for data centers in an effort to address scale, dynamic operation and vendor independence. 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 INSIDER Security risks increase as cloud data centers change As the pace of technological change in cloud data centers speeds up, the list of endeavors in cloud data centers grows longer. A sampling of that list includes Internet of Things, innovation, big data, mobile and social access, and SDN/NFV. (Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems SDN 102 Software Defined Networks This paper covers the various methods of incorporating automation of networking resources in to the data center architecture and the importance of including the application delivery controller in the automated infrastructure. Learn More Cisco fixes privilege escalation flaws in AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client The Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client has been updated to fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain system or root privileges on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X computers. Read More Microsoft, Google bury the hatchet with global patent deal Microsoft has been pursuing a more collaborative approach under CEO Satya Nadella, working with longtime rivals like Salesforce, VMware and Apple. There hasn't been much love between Microsoft and Google, though, but an announcement Wednesday may signal an easing of those tensions. Read More Microsoft prepares a new SQL language for Big Data It's refreshing to see Microsoft shed the last bits of its not-invented-here mentality and embrace new industry standards without conditions, like it did to Java 20 years ago. You see it rather clearly in its support for Hadoop and Big Data. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Cisco & Citrix: Opening the Way to Data Center Agility In most enterprises today the lack of data center agility is a major drag on business agility. Applications have become far more flexible, but the promised business advantages cannot be realized while the infrastructure is rigid. Learn how leading-edge technology companies are learning to support flexible application-centric infrastructures. View now Microsoft offers businesses a 'premium' network link to Office 365 One snag with cloud applications is that they often run over that pesky thing called the public Internet, a Wild West of uncertain speed and reliability. That's fine for a lot of consumers but not always great for businesses. Read More Cloud-based 'digital twins' could make power plants more efficient Electricity may be the lifeblood of the IT, but the industry that produces it has been slow to take advantage of computing advances. That may be changing, with a cool new tool from GE that could help keep power plants running. Read More 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 Microsoft bolsters Azure in containers, security Microsoft is enhancing its Azure cloud platform with a new container service and a new security center. Read More
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