Security World: Check Point, Juniper, Stonesoft shine in low-end network firewall test

Gigamon targets 40Gb networks with new blade system | Printers join fray in network vulnerability landscape

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Check Point, Juniper, Stonesoft shine in low-end network firewall test
NSS Labs today released test results of performance, management and security capabilities in a dozen low-end network firewalls, with Check Point, Juniper and Stonesoft earning top technical scores. Read More

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WHITE PAPER: Quest Software

Resolving Active Directory Backup and Recovery Requirements
Your business needs to be able to restore AD from a complete disaster – and to recover from losses like accidental deletion of an OU. See how the right backup and recovery tools enable you to do both. Read Now!

Gigamon targets 40Gb networks with new blade system
Gigamon announced that it will offer a higher-density blade server as part of its Traffic Visibility Fabric solution, a network management product designed to make data centers more efficient. Read More

Printers join fray in network vulnerability landscape
Printers are not the typical paths cybercriminals take into corporate networks. Nevertheless, the devices have become a concern among experts who see them as an ignored weakness in network defenses. Read More

Gartner: Social business software efforts largely unsuccessful, for now
Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they're not getting much good from them, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Top Ten Reasons to Use Steelhead Cloud Accelerator
Steelhead Cloud Accelerator is a unique technology integration that can offer performance improvement for SaaS applications consumed by enterprises. It combines the best of WAN optimization with the best of Internet optimization to provide a seamless transition for users between private and public clouds. Learn more. Learn more.

Key recommendations for SDN IT buyers
Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision the network, improve quality of service, reduce operational costs, and make networks more secure. Read More

Why you need (a lot) more Internet bandwidth on your Enterprise WAN
Last time we covered the reasons I believe the time is now ripe for a Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Read More

Software-defined networking is more than just programmability
With the hype around software-defined networks (SDNs) having grown as high as it has, almost every vendor is looking for an angle to capitalize on the opportunity. I've noticed recently that many of the vendors, particularly the big-box vendors, are focused on the concept of "network programmability." While I agree that programmability is a component of SDN, it shouldn't be the sole focus. Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation

Powerful Application Solutions for CRM & ERP
This white paper examines how you can get the most from CRM and ERP, find the best system for your business and how IBM can help. Learn More.

Set up Windows 8 as a home server
If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only really need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you should always back up everything on a regular basis.) Read More

FreeNAS: Flexible, fast storage, and the price is right
It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? Read More

Ex-Cisco engineers tackle Layer 4-7 SDNs
Another SDN startup with a Cisco pedigree has emerged. Anuta Networks, a provider of network services virtualization, came out of stealth mode this week and unveiled its plan for delivering "on-demand, anytime, anywhere" network services for cloud. Read More

Senate immigration 'framework' calls for STEM green cards
The group of U.S. Senators who are leading an effort to develop a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill want it to include a so-called STEM visa. Read More

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