20 must-see products at DEMO 2013

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A lot of data could be stored here one day Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Network World Daily News AM October 16, 2013 Share this email 20 must-see products at DEMO 2013 The DEMO Fall 2013 conference kicks off today, giving more than 40 startups and entrepreneurs just minutes on-stage to pitch their products before a crowd of investors, reporters, bloggers and potential customers. The DEMO pitch has been the first step for startups that have grown into industry main-stays, such as VMware, salesforce.com, TiVo, and E-Trade. Years from now, the companies debuting at this year's DEMO conference might find themselves in similar company. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. A lot of data could be stored here one day 2. Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access 3. Startup wants to make public Wi-Fi a more social experience 4. INSIDER SDN pioneers share their secrets 5. Chris Hemsworth goes to 'nerd school' for hacking in cyber-terrorism thriller 'Cyber' 6. AT&T! Stop wasting my time! 7. First Look: NetCitadel threat management platform in beta site 8. Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN 9. Security vendor admits mistake in website take down 10. Silicon Valley Tech Workers: Get Your Butt in Here! 11. Open letter to customers: 'You can continue to count on BlackBerry' 12. Google's Graveyard: 13 products Google killed off in 2013 WHITE PAPER: CDW Protect Your Business & Simplify IT Restore entire virtual guests and critical virtualized Microsoft applications across VMware and Hyper-V. Learn about the features in Backup Exec V-Ray that deliver disk and tape backup and recovery across both your physical and virtual infrastructure with a single solution. Read Now A lot of data could be stored here one day Northern Colorado is a good spot to build a data center, according to Craig Harrison, who has spent the last three years planning the construction of the Niobrara Data Center Energy Park. READ MORE Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Alcatel-Lucent is offering its enterprise switch users a free software upgrade to converge wired Ethernet networks with wireless from Aruba Networks. READ MORE Startup wants to make public Wi-Fi a more social experience There's no doubt about it – public Wi-Fi can sometimes be a hassle. The airport wants you to pay a fee. Starbucks makes you buy an expensive mochaccino. What's a frustrated laptop user to do? READ MORE INSIDER SDN pioneers share their secrets With the ability to create virtual networks quickly and efficiently – rather than programming network-connected hardware on an individual basis – software defined networks (SDN) appear to be the time-and-resource saving solution that overwhelmed IT managers have been looking for. READ MORE WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Chris Hemsworth goes to 'nerd school' for hacking in cyber-terrorism thriller 'Cyber' The idea of American and Chinese military forces working together on "a case of high-level computer hacking" may be a bit mind-boggling, being that the two countries are more-or-less sworn cyber-enemies intent on hacking each other for cyber espionage, but it is the premise for the upcoming Michael Mann cyber-thriller dubbed "Cyber." That's not the type of thing I normally follow, but the purported READ MORE AT&T! Stop wasting my time! It seems to me that one of AT&T's strategic goals is to waste our time. READ MORE First Look: NetCitadel threat management platform in beta site Detecting and stopping stealthy malware designed to steal sensitive information means moving fast. Start-up NetCitadel wants to put its new Threat Management Platform in the middle of the security-response game with many of the other players there now -- sandboxing, firewalling, and other technologies a company may use in order to provide a kind of orchestration and decision-making point. READ MORE Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed, Apache said Wednesday. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. What You Need to Know About 802.11AC The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more. Security vendor admits mistake in website take down Rapid7 has acknowledged that it waited too long to take the security actions needed to prevent a pro-Palestine hacking group from taking down two of its websites by sending a fax to the sites' registrar. READ MORE Silicon Valley Tech Workers: Get Your Butt in Here! First Yahoo called its remote workers back to the office. Now HP has issued an 'all-hands-deck' mandate. (Rumors are swirling that Visa may be next to rein in workers.) Is this really all about innovation? And will this approach work with today's tech workers -- especially those in Silicon Valley? READ MORE Open letter to customers: 'You can continue to count on BlackBerry' Troubled BlackBerry started the smartphone marathon race ahead of the pack years ago, but has fallen well behind as it faces 4,500 worker layoffs, a $1 billion write-off for unsold smartphones and the likelihood of being sold off in parts. READ MORE Google's Graveyard: 13 products Google killed off in 2013 Google Reader has had plenty of company going to the grave this year READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. 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