Bi-monthly Computer Networking/IT Industry Updates (Sept. 28 – Oct. 10, ’15)

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Welcome to bimonthly Computer Networking/IT industry updates. In this edition, you’ll find some interesting news, product releases by the vendors in our industry, over the last two weeks (September 28 – October 10, 2015).

#1. Dell, along with investment partners, to acquire EMC Corporation: Michael S. Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake will shortly acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly traded company. Read more…

#2. Hp and Partners Announce the Launch of OpenSwitch community, an open source Network Operating System ecosystem for data centers. The full-featured open source network operating system is ready for you to tinker with, now. More…

#3. Ruckus Introduces Ruckus Unleashed Wireless Access Points for Controller-less WiFi architecture. These APs are aimed at small businesses that want to start small and expand into controller-based solution using the same APs, later on. Up to 25 such APs can be managed as part of a single site network, without a controller. Read more…

#4. Amazon Introduces new Products/Services at AWS re:Invent: Amazon has introduced AWS Database Migration Service & makes MariaDB available as a managed service in AWS. More… Amazon introduces Snowball, a hardware appliance that is shipped to the customer’s place, loaded with customer data, and is shipped back to the AWS Cloud Data Center, for faster and cheaper upload of large TB-scale data. More… Amazon Kinesis Firehose makes transfer of real-time data onto AWS easier. More… AWS has also announced Amazon QuickSight, a Cloud-powered Business Intelligence service. More…

#5. Barracuda Networks to Acquire Privately held Intronis, Inc. a company providing data protection services to managed service providers. Read more…

#6. Open Network Project (Facebook) and Arista Networks to demo Open Network Linux, an open source network operating system. More…

#7. Android for Work First Online Conference to be held on Nov. 04 to show the business features of the popular mobile operating system. Read more…

#8. Legrand’s Acquisition of Raritan is complete. More…

#9. Array Networks Introduces Web Application Firewalls, both as physical and virtual appliances. The AWF Series includes AWF 1500, 3500, and 5500 Physical Web Application Firewalls and vAWF virtual appliances. Read more…

#10. Polycom Introduces new Collaboration Solutions: Polycom has introduced three new collaboration solutions. 1. Polycom RealPresence Trio; 2. Polycom RealPresence Centro; 3. Polycom RealPresence Debut. More…

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