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Cisco’s Spending Spree: An Analysis

December 06, 2012 07:07 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro

This November Cisco bought three companies in the space of about 10 days. I’ll examine whether these purchases are part of a larger strategic move, or simply the result of internal competition among Cisco’s business units.

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Tags: Cisco Systems, Cariden, Cloupia, Meraki, orchestration, SDN, WLAN, cloud

Channel: Virtualization, Wireless, Public Cloud, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud

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Object Storage's Path to the Enterprise

December 05, 2012 10:42 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Object storage is a smart fit for enterprise use cases such as backup, but the need to write to custom APIs impedes adoption.

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Tags: object storage, Object Storage Summit, APIs, backup

Channel: Content Management, Cloud Computing, Data Protection, Cloud Storage, Public Cloud, Backup & Recovery, Servers & Storage

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A Ruckus Over WLAN Testing

November 30, 2012 03:37 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman

A competitive review of WLAN products at Syracuse University stirred up controversy because of a vendor’s involvement in the tests. But the real question is, are they testing the right things?

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Tags: Ruckus, Cisco, Aerohive, Aruba, Meraki, WLAN, testing, Syracuse University

Channel: Cloud Computing, Public Cloud, Networking & Mgmt, Next Gen Network

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The Case for UC Interoperability

November 28, 2012 07:44 PM
Posted by Michael Finneran

A lack of interoperability among unified communications platforms isn't suited to today's business needs, particularly because partners, suppliers and resellers need to collaborate and communicate more closely than ever. It's time for the UC industry to step up.

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Tags: UC, unified communications, collaboration, interoperability, federation, Microsoft Lync, Cisco, video conference, telepresence, presence, instant messaging

Channel: UC & VoIP, Cloud Computing, Public Cloud

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Disaster Recovery Lessons You Might Have Missed

November 27, 2012 11:45 AM
Posted by David Greenfield

Hurricane Sandy had a lot to teach technology professionals about disaster recovery and business continuity. It certainly reinforced the basics—back up your data and test your DR systems—but there are other lessons to learn. Here are five.

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Tags: disaster recovery, business continuity, Hurricane Sandy, fuel, backup, generators, cloud computing, Amazon, Silver Peak

Channel: Cloud Computing, Backup & Recovery, Data Protection, Cloud Storage, Servers & Storage, Public Cloud

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Why We Need Network Abstraction

November 26, 2012 03:16 PM
Posted by Joe Onisick

Highly virtualized data centers are exposing cracks in traditional network constructs such as VLANs. New approaches that abstract the physical network, including network overlays, are key to providing flexibility and scale.

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Tags: VLAN, QoS, VXLAN, network virtualization, OpenFlow, SDN

Channel: Virtualization, Next Gen Network, Public Cloud, Data Center, Private Cloud, Cloud Computing

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