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SDN and InteropNet: Cranking up the world's biggest temporary network
It starts with a gathering in a warehouse in Brisbane, Calif. Vendor reps, volunteers and networking experts of all stripes meet to create an enormous temporary network using products from 23 different companies, test it within an inch of its life -- and then stuff it on to trucks drive it out to Las Vegas.
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Talari releases wide-ranging software update for WAN optimisation boxes
A major software update for Talari Networks' WAN optimization gear will introduce automatic, virtualized configuration capabilities, dramatically improving the sophistication of its core product.
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Fluke debuts Visual TruView for app performance, network monitoring
Fluke Networks is announcing an appliance called Visual TruView at Cisco Live today that combines network and application performance management into a single rack-mounted unit.
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RSA betting the future of security on big data
RSA, the security division of EMC, is looking to big data for the future of security, arguing that applying analytics to massive amounts of data related to users, their devices and network management will be increasingly important to detect fraud and cyberattacks.
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UK Ministry of Defence to invest £400k in cyberspace research
Ministry of Defence scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) are on a mission to find innovations that will improve their understanding of cyberspace.
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Zenoss adds network monitoring to AMQP data centre bus
Responding to the trend of streamlining data centre management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus.
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Windows Azure outage caused by configuration error
A system configuration mistake caused the outage that affected Windows Azure customers in western Europe last week, according to Microsoft.
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Olympic organisers ask spectators to refrain from Tweeting
It didn't take long to see the first signs of strain on communication networks at the Olympics when overloaded infrastructure on the first day of competition caused organisers to request that spectators scale back their use of Twitter for "non-urgent" messages, according to Reuters.
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Spiceworks social network for IT pros hits 2m users
Spiceworks, the social business platform for IT professionals, has announced that it now has 2 million users, representing nearly 30 percent of all IT pros at small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
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Earthwave rolls out pioneering SOC-in-a-box security operation centre builder
Earthwave builds to specifications such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), ISO/IEC 27001, the payment card industry's PCI/DSS, the Australia Security Intelligence Organisation's T4 physical security standard and Australia's Defence Signals Directorate's "Highly Protected" classification, among others.
