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• Avaya Details Rollout Plans For One Source Partner Portal
  4:53 PM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  Avaya said its new One Source portal could slash the time it takes partners to get customer quotes by up to 87 percent.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  1:25 PM EST Fri. May. 03, 2013
  For the week ending May 3, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• HP Puts SDN Strategy In High Gear With New FlexFabric Switches
  11:55 AM EST Thu. May. 02, 2013
  HP's new FlexFabric line of switches are aimed at making data center networks more programmable and optimized for big data applications and the cloud.
• Juniper Partners Welcome New Partner Sales VP As Vitagliano's Successor
  3:44 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  Juniper partners said, while they'll miss former vice president of Americas Partner Sales Frank Vitagliano, Chris Jones is an ideal replacement for the long-time channel icon.
• Juniper Reports Steady Q1 Growth, But Warns Of Slow Enterprise Sales
  6:46 PM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  Juniper Networks reported year-over-year growth for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 but warned of continued weakness across its enterprise segment.
• Bon Voyage! 12 Scenes From Cisco's Velocity Event In Cannes
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  Cisco and its partners took to one of the most beautiful cities in the world this week for the networking giant's seventh annual Marketing Velocity event. Here are 12 scenes from the show.
• Tech 10: Hot Networking Devices For 2013
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Software-defined networking, mobility and the cloud has everyone in the network space upping their game. Here are 10 products that you must check out.
• Dell Makes Big SDN Play With New Fabric Technologies
  11:10 AM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  Dell's new Networking Active Fabric solutions will go head-to-head with a growing number of converged networking and SDN technologies from rivals including Cisco and HP.
• Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  For the week ending April 12, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• SVP Of Cisco's Global Enterprise Segment Departs
  2:25 PM EST Wed. Apr. 10, 2013
  John McCool, head of Cisco's Enterprise Networking Sales Architecture team and a key driver behind the development of Cisco's Catalyst switches, is leaving the company.
• Brocade To Partners: New HyperEdge Technology Will Change The Conversation
  10:30 AM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  The aim of Brocade's new HyperEdge technology is to apply the same 'flattening' concept to enterprise networks that has been applied to data center networks through fabric technologies.
• Extreme Networks Targets Enterprise With Open Fabric Solution
  3:00 AM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  Extreme Networks is taking its Open Fabric technology for data centers into enterprise campuses with its new Open Fabric Edge solution.
• Alcatel-Lucent Venture Nuage Networks Details SDN Play
  5:07 PM EST Tue. Apr. 02, 2013
  Nuage Networks, an internal startup within Alcatel-Lucent, says its new SDN overlay addresses the key data center network constraints limiting cloud services adoption.
• Riverbed Stages First APM Launch Since OPNET Buy
  9:00 AM EST Tue. Apr. 02, 2013
  Riverbed said OPNET AppInternals Xpert 8.5 will bridge the gap between application developers and application support teams, while streamlining performance management initiatives for both groups.
• Juniper Bolsters SDN Strategy With New Programmable EX9200 Switch
  4:09 PM EST Mon. Apr. 01, 2013
  Juniper is pushing ahead with the ambitious software-defined networking strategy it outlined earlier this year with the launch of its new EX9200 core programmable switch.
• Cisco's New VP Of Partner Marketing: Let's 'Attack' Growth Areas Together
  3:43 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  Sherri Liebo, Cisco's new VP of global partner marketing, said she wants to drive more Cisco services and hosted offerings through the channel.
• Cisco Confirms More Layoffs
  5:03 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  Cisco confirmed it is trimming an additional 500 jobs from its workforce, adding to the multiple rounds of layoffs the networking giant has undergone over the past two years.
• Silver Peak Systems Launches New Software For WAN Op, Data Replication
  3:46 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  Silver Peak said its new VRX software line can help accelerate data replication speeds by up to 20 times.
• Silver Peak Systems Launches New Software For WAN Op, Data Replication
  12:06 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  Silver Peak said its new VRX software line can help accelerate data replication speeds by up to 20 times.
• New Big Switch Software Aims To Fire Up SDN, OpenFlow Adoption
  11:32 AM EST Wed. Mar. 27, 2013
  Big Switch Networks says Switch Light, its new thin switching software platform, will free customers from vendor-specific or proprietary networking architectures, all while slashing operational costs.
• 2013 Partner Programs Guide: Networking Vendors
  4:00 PM EST Tue. Mar. 26, 2013
  It takes a lot stand out in the networking world these days, but the five-star vendors on this year's Partner Programs Guide managed to do so by offering the best programs in software defined networking, unified communications and more.
• Oracle Continues Telecom Shopping Spree With Tekelec Buy
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Mar. 26, 2013
  Oracle adds another piece to its telecommunications software portfolio by acquiring Tekelec, a vendor of software that helps carriers keep track of growing data and devices.
• Cisco Revamps Certifications Program To Meet Demand For Security, Voice, Wireless Experts
  8:00 AM EST Tue. Mar. 26, 2013
  Cisco says its new CCNA requirements reflect a growing divide between network administrators and network security, wireless and voice experts.
• Jury Rules Cisco To Pay $70 Million In Patent Case
  6:06 PM EST Fri. Mar. 22, 2013
  Cisco has been ordered by a Delaware jury to pay patent licensor XpertUniverse $70 million in damages.
• Fortinet To Bolster ADC Play With Coyote Point Buy
  4:20 PM EST Fri. Mar. 22, 2013
  Fortinet's planned acquisition of Coyote Point Systems will significantly bulk up its ADC portfolio, putting it on a more even playing field with the likes of F5 Networks, Citrix and Cisco.