New York, NY, February 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2013), the leading international conference dedicated to driving the advance of on-demand consumer electronics technologies, recently held its 10th annual event at the Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel devoted to next stage anytime, anywhere entertainment and information communications. Extending from January 11 to January 14, the conference was specifically designed to open on the final day of the 2013 International CES and even boasted a new, collaborative CES booth highlighting IEEE initiatives as well as IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) standardization projects, upcoming conference details and IEEE CCNC prototype demonstrations. Included in these demos were the presentations of Dr. Frank den Hartog of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Resear... (more)

Moogsoft Raises $7 Million in Series A Financing to Bring Efficiency & Reduced Costs to Large-Scale IT Management

Bringing Innovations in Big Data and Natural Language Processing to IT Service Management, Moogsoft Cuts Costs & Increases Efficiency for Enterprises London, England / San Francisco, CA / New York, NY - May 29, 2013 - Moogsoft, the leading Agile Service Management software company, announced today a $7 million Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. John Walecka, General Partner at Redpoint Ventures, has joined Moogsoft's Board of Directors. Moogsoft, which began customer deliveries of MOOG® in February 2012, helps enterprises significantly reduce IT Incident Management costs, increase the frequency of IT change and increase the efficiency of their staff. Moogsoft's MOOG® automatically identifies the existence of IT Incidents, goal orchestrates the stakeholder responses and captures the resolution knowledge. MOOG® requires no rules, no business logic or mo... (more)

Pure Storage Provides Key to Expanding Virtualised Workloads in Europe and Delivers All-flash Benefits Through Channel-focused Strategy

Discusses best practice for Software-Defined Storage, how to increase VM performance, raise VM density in Flash Storage Demonstrates its All-Flash Storage Array Suitability for Virtual Environments at VMworld Europe 2013 at Booth #G105 BARCELONA, Spain - October 11, 2013 - Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, is attending VMworld Europe to demonstrate to the virtualisation community in Europe how it can accelerate their growing virtualised workloads at an affordable price, using all-flash arrays. During the two-day show, the company will be leading two breakout sessions and is helping kick the event off by sponsoring the vRockstar 'Block Party' on Sunday, 13th October 2013. Storage has long been the Achilles' heel of virtualisation, limiting the efficiencies that European companies can gain from deploying more virtual machines. The problem ... (more)

CapEx, OpEx, and Scale

I have written in recent weeks that most networking purchases are dominated by what I call the Year One Problem. That is to say that networks need to continuously add capacity at ever-increasing rates while budgets remain flat to slightly up (if you are lucky). This creates a dynamic where the only criterion that matters in any individual purchasing decision is the price-per-usable-capacity. Not unsurprisingly, we have seen a wave of white box fever rush over our industry. But sitting just over the horizon is the Year Three Problem. The fact that operating expense dominates total cost over the life of a device is not lost on anyone. Those CIOs, VPs, and Lead Architects who want to maintain their job security for years to come have to solve the Year One Problem while simultaneously extracting operating expense out of the network. This brings workflow automation into... (more)

LineRate: Some of UR Code Are Belong to the Network

#devops #NodeSummit #nodejs #F5 is putting the power of node.js in the network API versioning. API metering. URI rewriting. Cookie management. A/B testing. Canary deployments. API façades. Traditionally these tasks have been implemented through a variety of hacks and manual configuration in web server or proxy conf files. URI rewriting? Write some regular expressions in Apache and restart the process. Decisions on routing - do I send Bob to the beta version or the release version? - or authentication requiring database access?  Hard-code it in the application and use performance-killing redirects and consume valuable application resources. Want to use memcached to improve performance and scale? Hard-code it in the application.  Domain logic doesn't belong in the application, or in the data access API. It belongs in an app proxy along with load balancing, SSL termin... (more)

Disaster Recovery Download: Looking Ahead to IT Continuity Trends in 2014

It’s exciting to look back at the end of every year in the IT industry to see how far we’ve come. In 2013 we saw the meteoric rise of SDN/NFV, the continued hype around big data and even more conversations circulating about virtualization and the cloud. With all these buzz words filling the air, where does IT business continuity fit in? In 2013, businesses came to terms with the necessity of an effective disaster recovery strategy. Many made the move from simple backup and tape solutions to more flexible and cost effective cloud-based technologies. While there were improvements, there were also failures. The overall cost of downtime continues to increase and businesses, both small and large, saw outages that affected thousands of users and billions in lost revenue. In today’s Disaster Recovery Download we highlight articles that look back at the industry movements in... (more)

5 things Arista’s impending IPO says about networking

Networking seems to be an industry that thrives on anticipation. At various times, the anticipation bounces between topics (when SDN will hit production environments, when Cisco would spin in Insieme, and so on), but the entire space seems to bounce around from anticipated event to anticipated event. It would seem that the next one in the queue is Arista’s IPO. On the surface, Arista’s public offering is primarily about raising funds and rewarding people who have worked hard to build a successful company over the past several years. But what else does it say about the networking industry at large? Networking is not dead When the Internet was created, networking was huge. The companies that provided the gear to make the Internet work were handsomely rewarded for figuring out how to push bits from here to there. Over the past 15 years, however, a lot of the luster has... (more)

VMworld 2014 – The F5 Reference Architecture for VMware NSX (feat Pearce)

Nathan Pearce, F5 Sr Technical Marketing Manager, shares a ton a great insight about NSX: what it is, what it does, why organizations deploy it along with how BIG-IP integrates with NSX. This integration solves two challenges – time to value and time to change. Wondering what that is? Take a peek and learn how you can quickly provision services without worrying about procuring equipment. VMware NSX Solutions   ps Related VMworld 2014 – Find F5 VMworld 2014 – Global Applications with vCloud Air (feat Church) VMworld 2014 – Security Considerations for the SDDC (feat Frelich) F5 at VMworld F5 YouTube Channel   Technorati Tags: vmworld,vmware,policy,f5,sddc,nsx,video,silva,cloud,virtualization,reference architecture   Connect with Peter: Connect with F5:         ... (more)

Pica8 Executive Tells Forum that SDN is Ready to Solve Real-World Problems Today

At a forum held today for institutional investors, private company executives and technologists, Steve Garrison, vice president of product marketing at Pica8, told attendees that he believes large data center organizations should consider the company’s approach to Open Networking right now to solve their most pressing data center challenges despite their belief that Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a disruptive technology and not ready for production environments. Speaking at the Emerging Technology Summit hosted by Pacific Crest Securities in San Francisco, Garrison initially defined and described how Open Networking decouples hardware from the switching operating system, which helps data center environments to leverage the benefits of commoditized hardware, which reduces capital expenses (CapEx). He then told attendees how that customization and programmabili... (more)

Publicis Groupe: Résultats Annuels 2012

PARIS, February 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Année 2012 (millions d'euros sauf BNPA et dividende) Revenu                            6 610     +13,7%     Croissance organique                        +2,9%    Marge Opérationnelle              1 064     +14,3%    Taux de marge opérationnelle                16,1%  (2011 : 16,0%) Résultat net                        737     +22,8%    BNPA* (euros)                      3,36     +27,3% Free Cash Flow**                    759     + 7,8%     *    BNPA dilué **     Avant variation du Besoin en Fonds de Roulement ***     Mis en paiement le 5 juillet 2013 sous réserve de l'approbation de l'Assemblée Générale des actionnaires le 29 mai prochain Maurice Lévy, Président du Directoire de Publicis Groupe déclare : « L'année 2012 devait être celle de la reprise, elle fut difficile, incertaine et décevante pour la croissance et l'emploi,... (more)

Global Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Industry

NEW YORK, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p01048499/Global-Intelligent-Transportation-Systems-ITS-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Passenger_Transportation This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) Systems, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, China, South Korea, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2018. The report profiles 102 companies including Developers of Key Enabling Technol... (more)