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Lessons Learned from SNW 2013
April 30, 2013 12:10 PM
Posted by David Hill
I picked up on two important trends at SNW 2013, including the role that IT can play as an internal broker for public cloud services, and the reasons enterprises are moving cautiously on emerging technology.
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Google's Green Energy Scheme: Laudable or Laughable?
April 23, 2013 05:05 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
A Google initiative to pay more for renewable energy at its data center in Lenoir, N.C., spurred a variety of reactions from readers. Some saw it as a step forward for green energy; others call it plain dumb.
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Skype and Google: The Unified Communications Killers?
April 22, 2013 05:58 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
From Skype and Google Hangouts to integrated HD webcams and inexpensive video conference appliances, consumer technology is pushing aside 'enterprise-grade' products.
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Merchant Silicon About to Get Smarter
April 18, 2013 07:51 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The march to SDN designs has led many to think we're entering an era of dumb switches. Instead, look for the commodity silicon to get a lot smarter.
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Cisco and OpenDaylight: The SDN Application Land Grab
April 11, 2013 09:20 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
Cisco is using the open source OpenDaylight initiative to spur application development to make its own SDN platform more valuable.
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HP Moonshot: A Big Bet On Innovative Engineering
April 10, 2013 10:34 AM
Posted by Kurt Marko
HP's Moonshot servers are a tour de force of engineering that aim to restore the company's innovation groove. Here are the details.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
