Cisco tweaks certs for changing IT landscape

	Arista steps outside the data center with Cloud Connect solution | EMC helps VMAX, VNX storage arrays hook up with public clouds
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	Cisco tweaks certs for changing IT landscape   Cisco last week updated its certification program to reflect the changing skills sets needed as the industry moves to Internet of Things, cloud and network programmability. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Attunity Managing Rapid Data Growth: A Trial By Fire Hose Is your data growing out of control? The bad news is that you've got your work cut out for you when it comes to capturing and exploiting that data. Learn More In this Issue Arista steps outside the data center with Cloud Connect solution EMC helps VMAX, VNX storage arrays hook up with public clouds IBM teams with Xilinx to take on Intel with Power chips Brocade names security CTO and Fellow Cisco acquires video collaboration company for $700M Why Apple keeps its distance from enterprise IT (and why it works) Dell-EMC deal will 'set back innovation,' says Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla Replaying Ballmer's whacky Windows 1.0 ad and explaining 'except in Nebraska' Geek-Themed Meme of the Week: email to text WHITE PAPER: SAS Institute Inc Understanding Data Streams in IoT The large array of connected devices, often referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), is delivering an array of new data from the sensors they contain. This data offers the promise of new services, improved efficiency and, possibly, more competitive business models. Learn More Arista steps outside the data center with Cloud Connect solution The rise of virtualization has had a profound impact on the technology industry. In the networking industry, perhaps no vendor has ridden the wave of cloud more than Arista Networks. The company was founded a little over a decade ago, and today it is a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of over $4.6 billion. However, almost all of Arista's revenues today come from selling products inside the data center. The company was one of the most aggressive vendors in pushing the concept of a spine/leaf architecture as a replacement for a traditional multi-tier network. This week, Arista announced its first solution that is outside the data center. The Arista Cloud Connect solution connects public and private cloud data centers. Moving into the data center interconnect market is a logical extension for Arista and highlights just how far merchant silicon has come over the past decade.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   EMC helps VMAX, VNX storage arrays hook up with public clouds Public clouds will be the next big spot for some enterprises to store data, and EMC wants to help them get there through its arrays.On Tuesday, the company introduced automatic tiering of data from its VMAX and VNX systems to public clouds including Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform. It's the latest extension of EMC software that can move data around based on how quickly an enterprise wants each application to respond.Organizations are starting to use public clouds for storage in order to cut costs and add capacity quickly. That could eat into EMC's traditional business of selling storage arrays that sit in a company's own data centers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   IBM teams with Xilinx to take on Intel with Power chips IBM has partnered with chip maker Xilinx to expand the use of IBM Power processors in servers, taking on Intel for a bigger slice of the data center market.It's one of several announcements IBM is making Monday around its Open Power effort, which it launched last year to breath new life into Power by licensing the design for use by other companies.Penguin Computing and Italy's E4 Computer Engineering are each building high-performance computers based on Power chips. And IBM said it worked with Nvidia to include its GPUs in IBM's Watson supercomputer, another Power-based system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   IDC Research: Get Ready for the Third Platform Cloud, social, mobile, and big data continue to drive fundamental change in businesses across all industries. In a recent survey, 96% of organizations anticipate an impact from at least one of the four technology trends. Learn More Brocade names security CTO and Fellow Brocade recently named Hadi Nahari vice president and security CTO, and SDN "All-Star" David Meyer as a Brocade Fellow. Meyer was a Cisco engineer back when SDN started generating significant interest.Nahari is a 20 year industry veteran. Prior to joining Brocade, he was chief security architect of mobile and software platforms at NVIDIA. He also held principal security architect roles at PayPal, MontaVista Software, Motorola, NetScape and the U.S. Government.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Cisco acquires video collaboration company for $700M Acano will help scale, hybrid delivery and interoperability, company says Read More   Why Apple keeps its distance from enterprise IT (and why it works) Apple is never going to bend to the demands of today's enterprise. It doesn't have to, or even want to, and doing so might hamper its user experience. The company is, however, slowly approaching businesses from a relative distance, empowering new partners, such as Cisco and IBM, to fill in the enterprise gaps it wants to avoid.Apple doesn't do things differently just to be different. The company wants to maintain a unique balance in its enterprise strategy, one that allows it to sell devices at a massive scale, enable a robust ecosystem and a secure OS for developers and users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems Modernize Your Core With Converged and Advanced Automation As businesses face unprecedented threats from ultra-low cost technology-based models like Uber and AirBnB, CIOs are forced to cut inefficiencies, contain costs, reduce complexity, and boost productivity while striving for higher profitability and new revenue streams. Learn More Dell-EMC deal will 'set back innovation,' says Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla While he thinks Dell buying EMC makes sense financially, Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has little faith in the merged company's ability to innovate."EMC and Dell merging is a really good financial move for Michael, but it will set back innovation and distract from innovation," said Khosla, now a prominent venture capitalist, in an onstage interview at the Structure conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.MORE: Hottest Black Friday Windows dealsAsked about the future for old-line technology companies like Cisco, IBM and Dell, Khosla was pessimistic. In his view, only about half of those tech titans will stick around in the future. What's more, he said, innovation from those companies has been seriously lacking.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Replaying Ballmer's whacky Windows 1.0 ad and explaining 'except in Nebraska'   Microsoft Windows 1.0 turns 30 tomorrow. And even though Steve Ballmer's over-the-top TV ad for the operating system has seen its share of Internet airtime, I viewed it for the first time only this morning. Read More   Geek-Themed Meme of the Week: email to text   The Advice Mallard has a good one for our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week collection, via Redditor chevyfried, who writes: "I use this lifehack for my security cameras that only have the ability to use email notifications." Read More
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