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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Big IT vendors mostly mum on commercial drone plans

  WebRTC close to tipping point as Cisco, Microsoft announce products | Apple delivers another Yosemite beta as WiFi issues persist

 
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Big IT vendors mostly mum on commercial drone plans
Word that the Federal Aviation Administration might take a very hard line on commercial drone use has those with designs on such activity nervous. But as for big enterprise IT vendors, it's really hard to tell what they think because they're keeping any plans in this field very hush-hush. Read More
 


WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation
 
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Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets
Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More

WebRTC close to tipping point as Cisco, Microsoft announce products
It was all the way back in the Spring of 2011 that Google released WebRTC, its nascent real-time, browser-based, HTML5-powered, no-plugin-required video chat project to the public. In the three and a half years since, the Internet Engineering Task Force and the W3C have been working together to try to formalize the standard, prepare the stable 1.0 release, and get it ready for prime time. Read More
 

Apple delivers another Yosemite beta as WiFi issues persist
Apple has come out with a second beta of Mac OS X Yosemite for developers, but it's not clear whether this latest build will address the WiFi problems that continue to affect an undetermined but apparently substantial number of users. Read More
 

New IBM service shines a light on mobile device and app performance
With mobile devices rapidly becoming the tools of choice for enterprise work, IBM wants to help IT departments make sure they can serve all users. Read More
 


WHITE PAPER: Protiviti

2014 IT Security & Privacy Survey Results
With the recent plethora of cyber-attacks and data breaches, prevailing wisdom suggests companies are working diligently to "get their houses in order." But findings from Protiviti's latest IT Security and Privacy Survey suggest otherwise. View now

 

INSIDER
Getting started with power-line networking
  Back in 2001, when I first moved to Asheville, N.C., I had a 3,500 square foot house and my wife and I both had offices on different floors. Wi-Fi just wasn't cutting it, and while I used 10Base2 (a.k.a. thinnet) to connect routers and switches between floors there was no way to make it look good. So I started experimenting with power-line networking, and I haven't looked back. Read More
 

 

Google's gigabit-Internet service in Austin priced at $70 per month
Google will offer a basic version of its broadband service for no monthly charge when it launches soon in Austin, Texas, with the 1Gbps service priced at $70 per month. Read More
 

Yamaha joins all-in migration to the public cloud
Yamaha Corporation of America, maker of musical instruments and high-end audiovisual gear, has joined the ranks of mid-size enterprises leaving their data centers behind and going all in with public cloud infrastructure as well, almost. Its Oracle ERP and Cisco voice system remain on-premises for now. Read More
 


WEBCAST: EMC

Redefine Your Mission-Critical Cloud with VMAX3
This webinar examines how EMC's VMAX3 storage solution provides unprecedented reliability, agility, cost-effectiveness and power in today's demanding storage environments. Learn More

Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud?
Like some of its major competitors, would Amazon Web ever offer an on-premises private cloud management software? Read More
 

Air Force evaluating high-frequency, focused mobile networks
The Air Force this week said it was looking into the technologies like advanced antennae and amplifiers it would take to build high frequency, directional mobile networks. Read More
 

IoT in the enterprise up three-fold, study finds
Internet of Things deployment in the enterprise has increased 333% since 2012, according to research from an Internet of Things company. Read More
 

 

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