Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Cloud storage will fail without WAN acceleration, so FedEx to the rescue?

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Cloud storage will fail without WAN acceleration, so FedEx to the rescue?
The winner of cloud storage won't be Amazon or other big companies but the smaller or regional company who will work with customers, allow them to use WAN acceleration. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

7 Key Challenges of Virtualization
While virtualization infrastructure platforms provide considerable advantages, VMs also add complexity. By planning for your migration, and recognizing the challenges, you can seamlessly optimize your virtual network and storage environment. Read Now.

WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power

The Four Trends Driving the Data Center Future
Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Learn more.

Facebook adds IPv6 support
Facebook is offering "experimental, non-production" support for IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More

Learn how to choose an APM tool
The Apdex Alliance is hosting an upcoming webinar to guide folks through the daunting task of choosing the right application performance management (APM) tool from the baffling array of alternatives. Peter is the speaker, and if you register here you can not only attend the webinar, which is on June 30, 2010 at 12:00 noon EDT (1 hour), you will receive an Excel tool Peter developed to evaluate APM. Read More

Cisco helps drive data center equipment mkt. in Q1
Sales of Cisco's Nexus data center switches helped propel the first quarter market for "purpose-built" switches and data center networking equipment overall, according to Infonetics Research. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans
Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches. Read More

Netuitive aims for the clouds
The more automated and dynamic an IT infrastructure, the better -- right? That's why the highly agile and scalable self-service cloud computing model holds so much promise for the enterprise, after all. Read More

Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?
The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, and the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles. Read More


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ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home
French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home. Read More

CSC offers Microsoft Exchange 2010 in the cloud
CSC is now offering a cloud-based e-mail and collaboration service based on Microsoft Exchange 2010, even before Microsoft itself. CloudExchange, the availability of which is being announced today, "features Microsoft Exchange 2010 as-a-service, and includes planning, migration, provisioning and ongoing service-level management," according to CSC. Read More

GoodReader for iPad adds VGA output, performance boost
GoodReader for iPad, Good.iWare's acclaimed all-purpose reader, has received an update to version 2.8, adding support for horizontal viewing of PDF files, VGA-out support, and a few other goodies. Read More

 
 
 

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