Unchecked usage can kill cost benefits of cloud services

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	Unchecked usage can kill cost benefits of cloud services The touted cost savings associated with cloud services didn't pan out for Ernie Neuman, not because the savings weren't real, but because the use of the service got out of hand. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Cloud-enabled Wi-Fi: Less Dollars, More Sense Aerohive's HiveManager Online is the first cloud-enabled, enterprise-class Wi-Fi management solution and is a breakthrough in management simplicity, flexibility, and redundancy. Learn more! In this Issue FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks Confidence in cloud management capabilities lacking, survey shows Interop 2011: Superfast switches everywhere Facebook, Twitter need corporate security policies Google 'Chromebook' focuses on enterprise push Brocade's Klayko sees long path to cloud Interop: Cyberwar test runs yield information about defenses NetApp offers Microsoft cloud blueprint The network and the cloud WHITE PAPER: HP 5 Key Virtual-Machine Management Questions In these articles, Network World and its sister publication, CIO, explore the flattening of the data center and take a look at the issue from the security and systems perspectives, as well. Read now! FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks With the availability of IPv4 addresses drying up, enterprise IT managers know they need to move to IPv6, but the migration raises all sorts of questions. In this excerpt from the book 'IPv6 for Enterprise Networks,' the authors answer many of those questions. Read More Confidence in cloud management capabilities lacking, survey shows In a poll of 150 Interop attendees last week, ScienceLogic found that while 70% of respondents are either already using or planning to use cloud computing nearly as many are not quite so sure they can effectively manage the performance of those cloud resources. Read More Interop 2011: Superfast switches everywhere At Interop, I took a closer look at the HP optical backplane the HP Labs is working on and grew even more impressed. It was one of the biggest innovations I saw at the show this year. This will one day greatly speed up switches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! Facebook, Twitter need corporate security policies Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told. Read More Google 'Chromebook' focuses on enterprise push Google took another step toward the enterprise this week when executives unveiled the 'Chromebook,' a notebook PC that could boost both its new operating system and cloud-based apps. Read More Brocade's Klayko sees long path to cloud Brocade Communications remains a networking specialist in an industry where networks are becoming just part of a broader architecture for many vendors. A longtime market leader in Fibre Channel SANs (storage area networks), Brocade acquired Ethernet switch maker Foundry Networks in 2008 and now offers to tie together all elements of a data center or broader cloud infrastructure. CEO Michael Klayko has led Brocade since 2005. Last Tuesday, during an all-day press and analyst event at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California, he talked with IDG News Service about his company's own infrastructure and how it plans to keep up with bigger rivals. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Setting the Stage for the Next-Generation Datacenter Learn how an Ethernet fabric-based network can help your company optimize its investments in virtualization and cloud technologies. A new IDC white paper reveals how fabric-based network architecture is the cornerstone for creating a more efficient, cost-effective way to move data through the network. Learn more! Interop: Cyberwar test runs yield information about defenses Cyber warfare strategy is getting so sophisticated that network attacks suitable for major assaults are being used instead as trial runs meant solely to probe enemies with the aim of figuring out what their defenses are, an audience at an Interop security talk was told. Read More NetApp offers Microsoft cloud blueprint NetApp has published a reference architecture for using its storage equipment for internal Microsoft-based clouds. Read More The network and the cloud As expected, cloud computing was all the rage at Interop 2011, in the anti-green capital of the world, Las Vegas Nevada. For the most part, this discussion is nothing but hype with marketing folks figuring out how to inject the words "cloud computing" into press releases. Nevertheless there is an interesting theme that is best summarized by Citrix -- Service Delivery Networks. Read More
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