Friday, March 23, 2012

HP Displaces Cisco, EMC In Sabre Data Centers

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: HP Displaces Cisco, EMC In Sabre Data Centers
ALSO SEE: Avaya Buys Radvision, Broadens Video Reach
ANALYTIC REPORT: IT Pro Impact: Piston Cloud OpenStack Environment
WHITE PAPER: Rethink Your Branch Network Strategy
MOST POPULAR: Top 7 Photoshop CS6 Features
BLOG: Security Professionals Get The Best Toys
WEBCAST: Self-Service without the Chaos
RESOURCES: Take Our Public Cloud Survey

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NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, March 23, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
HP Displaces Cisco, EMC In Sabre Data Centers
$800 million deal with travel industry leader replaces rivals' aging equipment with HP's latest virtualized, converged systems.

ALSO SEE
Avaya Buys Radvision, Broadens Video Reach
Radvision will help Avaya provide low-bandwidth, high-definition video to a broader variety of devices.

Cloud ROI: The Missing Link
What return are you getting on your investments in public cloud services? New research reveals you probably don't know, and that's a problem.

Training, Network Bandwidth Top Videoconferencing Concerns
More than 70% of companies expect to have active videoconferencing capabilities within a year, despite IT challenges, survey finds.

Health IT Infrastructure Often Comes Second
CDW Healthcare report shows that caregivers value their electronic tools, but many gripe about network speed. At many hospitals, EHRs come first and infrastructure improvements follow.

Intel Xeon E5: Server Chips With Virtualization Secrets
Chips used to be all about clock speeds and shrinking circuit size. But Intel's newest chips for data center servers are all about networking, I/O, and data movement, in the age of virtualization.

Valley View
Check out our lineup for Valley View (our live Web TV show) March 28, 4 pm PT in our SF HQ:
• Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote
• Andy Bechtelsheim, Founder of Arista (co-Founder of Sun & others)
• Parker Harris, co-Founder of SalesForce.com
• Joshua McKenty, CEO of Piston Cloud;
• James Bruce, Lead Mobile Strategist for ARM

Register to win prizes and watch the show live; or if you're in the area come on by


  Digital Issue  
DOWNLOAD INFORMATIONWEEK HEALTHCARE'S DIGITAL ISSUE
Download our exclusive digital issue and learn how the decision to postpone the ICD-10 compliance deadline won't improve readiness, senior healthcare pros say.

ALSO THIS ISSUE:
Natural Language In EHRs: Electronic health record vendors are embedding natural language processing into their products.
Mobile Medicine: Why BYOD doesn't always work.


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REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
IT Pro Impact: Piston Cloud OpenStack Environment
If OpenStack sounds appealing but the prospect of downloading, installing and customizing a suite of open source packages is anything but, Piston Cloud is an attractive alternative. It enables enterprise IT teams to build a private cloud in an afternoon, with commodity gear. Here's the lowdown.
DOWNLOAD NOW (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Rethink Your Branch Network Strategy
In today's virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. If IT can empower every remote worker with the full capabilities available at headquarters, the business can differentiate itself and directly influence the company's bottom line.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
Top 7 Photoshop CS6 Features
After more than 20 years, Adobe is still updating its flagship image-editing application, this time with a new dark look, raw-image editing, and nondestructive cropping.

8 Things Tablets Still Can't Do
Have we really entered a post-PC world? The new Apple iPad and its tablet rivals still come up short on a few important measures.

Microsoft's Answer To The End Of Software
Microsoft's Convergence user conference convinced me that Dynamics will be a major player in the cloud, as Redmond bets big on customer choice.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured Blogger Security Professionals Get The Best Toys
By Mike Fratto
Do think penetration testers--the people that companies hire to break into organizations and test their defenses--remain immersed in the pale glow of a stack of monitors listening to techno and mainlining over-caffeinated fruit drinks? I was visiting Steve Stasikounis, CEO of Secure Network Technologies and Dark Reading contributor, last week in his offices, and he couldn't help showing off his latest penetration testing and forensic investigation tools.

Piston Cloud Delivers Private Cloud In Hours For As Little As $800
By Rob Dutt
IT departments looking at standing up private cloud environments in a hurry, and without some of the complexity usually associated with cloud infrastructure, would do well to take a look at Piston Cloud from Piston Cloud Computing.

Hadoop Tames Big Data for the Enterprise
By Frank J. Ohlhorst
Big Data can mean big opportunities for the majority of organizations, but only if they can make sense of the data in a reasonable amount of time.

 

WEBCASTS:

Self-Service without the Chaos
Enterprises are conflicted about their cloud strategies and it has to do with perception. You might be sold on the benefits of cloud, but there are a few perceived showstoppers. In this informative webinar with William Fellows of the 451 Research, we will explore how to ensure you can create self-service without the chaos to ensure you achieve the full benefits of cloud computing. It happens Thursday, March 22, 2012.
More Information & Registration
 

RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
Take Our Public Cloud Survey
InformationWeek is conducting a survey on the state of private cloud use in the enterprise. Upon completion of our survey, you will be eligible to enter a drawing to receive an 32-GB Apple iPod Touch. Additionally, you will receive a discount code good for 25% off Flex and Conference passes to Interop Las Vegas 2012, to be held at the Mandalay Bay, May 6-10.
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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