Network management - News, Features, and Slideshows

• How to accelerate software development by harnessing the power of DevOps, agile and hybrid cloud

  Software development teams and operations/system administrators have historically pushed each other in opposing yet complementary directions. While development teams focus on delivering new features to end users, operations personnel generally focus on software deployment, minimizing liabilities and risks, and optimizing performance and reliability. The natural friction between the two groups can create a productive balance, but oftentimes it causes obstacles, resentment and a loss of revenue.

• Cisco, Akamai team to boost branch performance

  Cisco and Akamai this week announced a collaboration to boost application performance for branch office sites.

• Hospital exec explains decision to lease hardware

  Last fall, after mulling the buy-vs.-lease question, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, based in Hartford, Conn., determined that leasing computers would save it 10% based on a three-year timetable.

• SDN and InteropNet: Cranking up and running 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.

• A10 airs Thunder line of ADCs, along with more DDoS protection

  A10 Networks this morning announced a new line of application delivery controllers -- distinct from the existing AX series -- dubbed "Thunder," saying that the new units offer more capacity in a smaller footprint.

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  Case Study: James Cook University

  ArubaOS 8 + Mobility Master delivers connectivity for 22,000 geographically dispersed students, boosts attendance and improves services at multiple JCU campuses.

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  Connected experience a big hit with Cricket Tasmania

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  Solving the Virtualized Infrastructure and Private Cloud Monitoring Challenge