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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
