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                    Boxer, a consumer-focused company, will be incorporated into  AirWatch, its enterprise mobility manager.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Vendors want to sell you the "new." But ripping-and-replacing  the "old" can lead to catastrophe.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 10/13/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Buying EMC opens the enterprise door much wider.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 10/12/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Open Networking Foundation furthered its vendor-neutral skills certification program for software-defined networking, announcing the availability of beta examinations. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Don't gamble on your infrastructure's resilience. Make sure you have redundancy built in. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    What VMware's future would be in that scenario is cloudy.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The El Capitan upgrade wrecked Dan's laptop. Fortunately, he was prepared. Are you?
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 10/05/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The security flaws affect both vCenter Server and ESXi.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Riverbed Technology said a survey taken at the recent VMworld conference pointed to strong interest in software-defined networking and identified software-defined wide-area-networking as the "next wave of network innovation for remote and branch office locations." 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft says it will make it easier to create and manage clusters of Docker hosts.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/01/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    They're often not what they seem.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/30/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Web event detailed the coming attractions.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    This new feature makes outages and data loss much less  likely.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Monitoring your networks can help find out what they're  doing that you don't even know about.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/28/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Beyond mere software-defined networking, the future of the enterprise datacenter itself will be defined by total infrastructure virtualization, research firm Gartner Inc. said today. But for now, only advanced companies with the prerequisite vision and expertise should try to get a jump on that future. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Too often, a 'time-to-market' mindset leads to sloppy products.
                    
			            - By Dan  Kusnetzky
- 09/24/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    It may hold the key to getting a handle on unstructured  data.
                    
			            - By Jon William  Toigo
- 09/24/2015
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The best part? They're free to use.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's enterprise mobility management suite will integrate  with Azure Active Directory.