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Network World Data Center Alert Jun 07, 2016 Understanding how new solid state drive technologies can benefit the data center By combining SSDs and HDDs in the right mix, performance gains are possible while keeping costs under control Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Tips for adding IPv6 to IPv4 networks • How Russia's oldest bank found itself on the leading edge of in-memory computing • OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation • DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning • Nvidia chief downplays challenge from Google's AI chip • Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer • EFF challenges patent troll's vaporous claim to the emailing of USPS tracking numbers • Verizon's 'Can you hear me now?' guy is now selling us Sprint. This is wrong. eGuide: Silver Peak Systems Inc eGuide: The Software-Defined WAN Today's hyper-connected, cloud-based envrionments demand greater agility and efficiency. Enter the software-defined WAN, which can address this shortcoming in traditional WAN architectures by putting an overlay on top of them. Read More ▶ Tips for adding IPv6 to IPv4 networks The IPv6 transition in your organization, more likely than not, involves bringing IPv6 into a mix that also includes IPv4. Here's a look at what that means and how to make it work. Read More ▶ How Russia's oldest bank found itself on the leading edge of in-memory computing It's not your average company that can trace its origins back to a nineteenth-century Russian tsar, but then, Sberbank is no average financial institution. Read More ▶ OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation The move gives OpenSwitch a neutral home where it can receive all the necessary support for long-term growth and sustainability – including back-office, technical infrastructure and ecosystem development services, said Michael Dolan, VP of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation. Read More ▶ DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning That's the central question of a potential new DARPA program known as the Fundamental Limits of Learning (Fun LoL) which according to the researchers will address how the quest for the ultimate learning machine can be measured and tracked in a systematic and principled way. Read More ▶ Nvidia chief downplays challenge from Google's AI chip Nvidia's chief executive says he's not phased by Google's new chip for machine learning, even though Nvidia has staked part of its future on building chips for AI. Read More ▶ Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer It will help reduce the research backlog. Although the current supercomputer has run seven million jobs representing the work of some 10,000 researchers, the Texas center still fields five times as many requests for time on the system as it can deliver. Read More ▶ EFF challenges patent troll's vaporous claim to the emailing of USPS tracking numbers So we live in a world where a guy can't begin to sell vaping-related goods over the Internet without being shaken down by a patent troll claiming a legal right to the courtesy of sending USPS tracking codes via email. Read More ▶ Verizon's 'Can you hear me now?' guy is now selling us Sprint. This is wrong. Paul Marcarelli – an actor better known as Verizon's "Can you hear me now?" guy – has now done a commercial for Sprint. Read More ▶ White Paper: Silver Peak Systems Inc Gartner Market Guide Details Why SD-WAN Should Be Part of Your WAN Architecture Silver Peak has been recognized as meeting key operating requirements for SD-WAN, according to the recent Gartner Market Guide for Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). Read this report and learn why enterprises are embracing this new and disruptive technology. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS 10 more pointless (but awesome) Linux terminal tricks 40 years of Apple: Apple's most innovative products Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Credibility and trust: Microsoft blows it 2. Father's Day 2016 gift ideas for the discerning geek techie 3. Groundbreaking jury verdict finds Utah firms made 117 million illegal telemarketing calls 4. Top Raspberry Pi news of the week: Magic mirror; Micro:Bit gets real; more on Android 5. 19 free cloud storage options 6. Watching Steve Jobs stare slack-jawed at Muhammad Ali 7. Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2016 so far 8. Review: The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is nearly perfect 9. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 10. OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation

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