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Featured Articles » Cloud Computing Value May Require Bandwidth Upgrades » Western Digital Gives Users Complete Control Over Data with My Cloud » Etherios Opens New San Francisco Solution Center in Financial District » CA Technologies Offers Same-day Support for IBM DB2 v11 z/OS Customers  Sponsored By: Software Telco Congress - November 20-21, 2013 -  Santa Clara, California The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market is predicted to reach $6B by 2018. As network hardware begins to be replaced by software, carriers are expected to save money and benefit greatly from new levels of flexibility related to powering their network functions in private and virtual private clouds. Attend Software Telco Congress and learn how the move to software will: reduce operator CAPEX and OPEX reduce power consumption reduce time-to-market for new network services speed ROI for new services allow for greater flexibility to scale up, scale down or evolve services provide opportunities to trial and deploy new innovative services at lower risk leverage open-source   Top Stories » GENBAND's Solutions Selected by iHub » IBM Signs Definitive Agreement over Acquisition of The Now Factory » ThinKom's ThinSAT 300 Antenna Now Interoperable with iDirect's OpenAMIP Protocol » APTARE Introduces its Flagship Platform - APTARE StorageConsole 9.0   From The Expert Corner October 02, 2013 History Repeats Itself with OpenStack By TMCnet Special Guest Malcolm Herbert, Director, Red Hat Consulting The days of legacy Unix are almost over as companies move towards the cloud. Enterprise IT infrastructure built on the need for interoperability resulted in vendor lock-in; cloud technology promises to provide a solution to this problem. Freedom of choice, even on a daily basis, should be the cornerstone of any planned migration towards a cloud environment. In addition to choice comes the requirement for standards, both in terms of technology, e.g. APIs, communication etc, and in process, in terms of the ways systems are built, deployed and managed...Read More Edited by Alisen Downey    Featured Videos TMC Interviews IBM    Featured Resources » Re-Thinking Communications to Grow Your Business » The Forrester Wave: File Sync And Share Platforms, Q3 2013 » IBM SmartCloud iNotes Security   TMCnet's Blogs » Does Microsoft Need to Fire Bill Gates?   Featured Channels » Software Licensing » MPLS » Search Appliance   InfoTechSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest IT News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit IT Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here    |    Request a Media Kit   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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