Take a Network Break! Strap on a bib to catch the crumbs from your virtual donut and join us as we gather the blossoming buds of this week’s tech news. We update the latest steps in Arista and Cisco’s lawsuit pas de deux, examine VMware’s latest acquisition, parse Oracle’s cloud strategy, and more.
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Protecting Innovation: Update on ITC Enforcement Action – Cisco
Bringing Storage Area Networking to the Age of Hyper Scale Data – Cisco
Brocade Launches Entry-Level Fibre Channel Switch – Packet Pushers
Huawei to spin off cloud business into separate unit – Mobile World Live
China’s Huawei targets Amazon, Alibaba in public cloud service push – Reuters
VMware to Acquire Wavefront to Accelerate Delivery of its Cross-Cloud Management Services – VMware
Continuing the Acceleration of Technology Innovation and Business Model Transformation – VMware
NetScaler on Azure Gets an Upgrade – Citrix Blogs
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on Beating Rivals Amazon, Microsoft – Fortune.com
Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network – Ars Technica