San Jose’s downtown is newly awash in Wi-Fi from Ruckus Wireless. But is a catchy slogan and established technology enough to triumph in the failure-prone municipal wireless space?
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Can Ruckus, San Jose Revive Municipal Wi-Fi?
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How To Configure Cisco Nexus 5500 Port Profiles
Cisco Nexus 5500 port profiles let network engineers apply multiple port configurations with a single command. Port profiles can reduce errors and enforce standard configurations. We show you how with sample code.
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Samsung? BlackBerry? Who Will Win the Containerization Wars?
MDM (mobile device management) has become a commodity technology over the years. It is also embarrassingly limited in its ability to secure devices and data on those devices. But it is, ironically, standardized by the rigid definition of what Apple will support.
So when security companies like Apperian develop their MAM (mobile application management) solutions to advance security beyond what Apple does, things can get messy.
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The Data Center Disaggregated: Promises and Problems
Facebook’s Open Compute Project aims to make data center elements, including server components, easily interchangeable. But tech and market barriers stand in the way.
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Watching Workers: Where’s The Line?
Employers may be within their rights to monitor workers, but those rights have limits and repercussions. Employers often find that watching workers is necessary, but they need to watch their step as they do so.
The issue surfaced at Harvard University recently after revelations that administrators searched 16 faculty email accounts last fall to find the source of leaks to the media about a prior cheating scandal.
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Vidyo Rethinks Enterprise Video Conferencing
Vidyo provides enterprises with a software alternative to proprietary, and often expensive, video conferencing systems.
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VMware’s NSX End Game Is Hybrid Clouds
NSX, VMware’s data center network virtualization platform, is really about public and hybrid clouds, where VMware has plans for growth. Here’s why.
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Storage Vendors, Flash Manufacturers, Buy Into Startups
Storage startups are getting interest—and money—from storage vendors and flash manufacturers. But investment doesn’t always mean the promise of viability.
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How Server-Side Storage Memory Impacts VDI Costs
In my last column I posited that advances in storage technology — mostly innovative use of memory-based storage — is making virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects more likely to generate a return on investment beyond just an operational one.
Moving beyond operational VDI project justification is critical for the large-scale deployment of VDI projects. It is simply easier to justify to non-IT decision makers something that will save the organization dollars than it is to rationalize something that will save IT department time or increase security.
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