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Finding the right tools is essential to any project. The good news is that there is already multitude of companies and products out there for supporting WebRTC developers-more than 70 and growing every week. WebRTC is still in its infancy, so this number could easily double in the next couple of years as adjacent industries and the laggards get on board. The bad news with the large number of tools out there means there are a lot of hard choices for developers and application architects to make. Complicating these decisions, WebRTC standards are still in progress with several contentious issues yet to be resolved. Click here to follow ▸@WebRTCSummit Register FREE for WebRTC Summit here ▸ http://bit.ly/1exOL9h WebRTC Journal ▸Home In his session at the WebRTC Fundamentals Summit, Chad Hart, Director of Product Marketing at Oracle and Chief Editor of webrtcHacks, will p... (more)

NetNumber Announces New President and CEO Brad Boston

LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NetNumber, which provides a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for centralized signal routing and database services to wireless and wireline telecommunications operators around the globe, announced the appointment of Brad Boston as president and chief executive officer.  Mr. Boston has been a member of the Board of Directors since April 2002.  He brings more than 30 years of relevant industry experience to his new role having previously served as CIO of Cisco Systems. "We welcome Brad's experience and leadership to NetNumber," said Joe Farrelly, NetNumber chairman of the board. "In his new role as president and CEO, he will be responsible for positioning NetNumber for future growth and greater visibility in the telecom and networking industries.  His technology background combined with his experience as a C-level executi... (more)

Silicom Solutions to Expand Into Virtualization, Cloud and SDN Environment

Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC, TASE: SILC), an industry-leading provider of high-performance server/appliances networking solutions, today announced that it has acquired all the IP related to the unique Virtualization Off-Load Engine developed during the last two years by Net Perform Technology Ltd. (“Net Perform”), a privately held company registered in Hong Kong, China. Through the acquisition, the Company has secured exclusive access to this important technology, thereby achieving a significant competitive advantage. The unique Virtualization Off-Load Engine resolves a major performance bottleneck in today’s virtualization-based data centers: the reduced server I/O performance deriving from the need of CPUs in virtualized environments to handle both networking and switching transactions between each VM individually and between each VM and the physical world. The Virt... (more)

Lancope Appoints Tim (TK) Keanini as CTO

ATLANTA, Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lancope, Inc., a leader in network visibility and security intelligence, announces the appointment of Tim (TK) Keanini as chief technology officer (CTO). Keanini brings nearly 25 years of network and security experience to his new role, including positions at Cisco and nCircle. He will lead the evolution and positioning of Lancope's technology architecture toward software-defined networking (SDN), along with other key product roadmap initiatives such as providing security in the private and public cloud. "TK possesses an incredible amount of industry expertise and has a burning passion to help us further define the evolving market requirements to keep our products and services state of the art," said Mike Potts, president and CEO of Lancope. "Between his time spent with Cisco, his impactful tenure as CTO of nCircle, and sign... (more)

Hotwire Communications Colocates With Colo Atl

ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwired) -- 09/23/13 -- Colo Atl, a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection solutions, announces today that Hotwire Communications, a specialist in providing sophisticated solutions over its exclusive fiber-optic network, is now colocated in Colo Atl's 55 Marietta Street facility in downtown Atlanta. Colo Atl's newest carrier installation comes after a significant expansion to meet increasing customer demand. "With Hotwire's select fiber-optic system providing our customers more bandwidth than any other technology on the market today, it is essential for us to colocate in a facility that can meet our cost, location and network diversity needs," comments Michael Grandizio, VP Technical Operations Hotwire Communications. "Ideally situated in downtown Atlanta, Colo Atl not only meets these needs, but demonstr... (more)

OIF Carrier Members Define Requirements for Transport SDN

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Carrier Working Group has completed a carrier requirements document addressing the transport network relevant part of a Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture. The document, “OIF Carrier Working Group Requirements on Transport Networks (TN) in SDN Architectures” has been a work-in-progress since March 2013. The document supports the evolution of transport networks towards SDN architectures, summarizing what is already available and highlighting new features and functionalities to support the deployment of SDN applications, services and technologies. Using the completed carrier requirements document as a foundation, OIF members have begun developing an SDN framework document that will provide future SDN related specifications and Implementation Agreements and also give structure to future OIF interoperability demonstra... (more)

Software-Defined Networking: A Path to Self-Aware UC&C Infrastructure

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Software-Defined Networking: A Path to Self-Aware UC&C; Infrastructure http://www.reportlinker.com/p01639989/Software-Defined-Networking-A-Path-to-Self-Aware-UCC-Infrastructure.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Network_Equipment Will Unified Communications Become the Killer App for Software-Defined Campus Networks? Software-defined networking (SDN) represents a significant shift in network architecture and administrator, and brings the hope of a network truly friendly to bandwidth-intensive unified communications and collaboration (UC&C;) applications. This market insight will discuss the benefits, challenges, and market opportunities for extending SDN technologies to the access layer or campus network in support of increas... (more)

RAD Joins Cyan Blue Orbit SDN Ecosystem

RAD, the industry leader in Service Assured Access solutions for service providers, and Cyan (NYSE: CYNI), a leading provider of software-defined networking (SDN) and packet-optical solutions for network operators, today announced that RAD has joined the Cyan Blue Orbit ecosystem of partners focused on delivering real-world, multi-vendor SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications. “There is a lot of industry chatter around the promise of SDN/NFV, but when it comes down to it, carriers want proof beyond the hype to know our solutions can be successfully deployed,” said Yuri Gittik, Head of Strategic Marketing, RAD. “The Blue Orbit ecosystem allows us to test and demonstrate interoperability between our innovative solutions, including Distributed NFV, and other multi-vendor SDN solutions to ensure smooth infrastructure rollouts.” RAD’s joining of Bl... (more)

Collaboration for Community Welfare, Deployment Contracts and New Products - Research Report on Qualcomm, Ericsson, Motorola Solutions, Ciena, and Alcatel-Lucent

NEW YORK, October 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Investors' Reports announced new research reports highlighting Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), and Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE: ALU). Today's readers may access these reports free of charge - including full price targets, industry analysis and analyst ratings - via the links below. Qualcomm Incorporated Research Report On September 24, 2013, Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm) announced in collaboration with The Coca-Cola Company, DEKA R&D;, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, McCann Health, NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG), and UPS. According to Qualcomm, their collaboration is for the EKOCENTER, a kiosk designed to improve the well-being of communities in 20 countries by the end of 2015. The Company stated that eac... (more)

Emulex Introduces High Performance NetFlow Generator Appliance for Enterprise, Cloud, Security and Mobile Deployments

NEW YORK and COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Interop -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the new EndaceFlow 3040 NetFlow generator appliance. The EndaceFlow 3040, which is purpose-built for use with high-density 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) networks, generates 100 percent accurate NetFlows on up to four Ethernet links at speeds up to 10Gb per second (10Gbps) line rate. This level of performance speeds detection, identification and resolution of critical security and network issues, improving network uptime and reducing operational expenditures (OPEX) in enterprise data centers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120403/NE81278LOGO )  "As enterprises move more deeply into the latest data center technologies, such as 10GbE, server virtualization and software-defined networki... (more)

StorMagic Names Claire Precious Marketing Communications Manager

StorMagic®, a leading provider of enterprise-class software-defined storage for virtual server environments, today announced that it has hired Claire Precious to be its new Marketing Communications Manager. In her new role she will lead the marketing function for the company across all geographies and drive continued market awareness and adoption of its industry-leading SvSAN virtual storage appliance. Precious comes to StorMagic from international value-add distributor Zycko, where she was responsible for all United Kingdom channel marketing across a portfolio of 30 vendors. Before that, she served in various marketing leadership roles at CGI and Experian Decision Analytics. "Claire has a reputation for being a top marketer, a transformational thinker and an organizational leader,” said Hans O'Sullivan, CEO of StorMagic. “We’re excited to bring her into the fold no... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...