Everyone I know that writes about technology has developed an extensive custom dictionary file for Microsoft Office. Sometimes it seems every third word I write is a company, product name or some piece of tech jargon that Word doesn’t recognize. Since I work on several different computers, I use SugarSync to keep my custom dictionary up to date.
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Synchronizing Custom Dictionaries With The Cloud
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HP-Polycom Partnership May Boost Lync Adoption
HP and Polycom are taking their partnership to a new level, combining HP’s networking technology and Polycom’s videoconferencing products to deliver Microsoft’s Lync unified communications platform to the enterprise. An HP representative says that while many Lync licenses have been sold by Microsoft, many of those deployments are still on hold because of the complexity of integrating the three elements — complexity that the two partners aim to address.
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Data Caps And Treating Employees Like Adults
Carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless are using data caps to manage the explosive growth in 3G/4G data consumption. Hey kids, the 1990s called and wants its bandwidth management strategy back. As Lee Badman points out in ’4G? No, It’s More Like 4Gee!’, the data rates available to wireless consumers are growing rapidly and our demand is keeping pace. When you have high demand and data caps, the chance of overages is very likely and the last thing anyone wants are out-of-control telecom costs. Consumers don’t have much choice in managing data caps, but enterprises, have more options.
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Arista Outpaces Cisco Again With FPGA Switch
Applications and initiatives like private cloud computing, virtualization, and mobility are placing increasing pressure on network infrastructure to be faster and more capable. Initiatives like software defined networking and protocols like Openflow can make the network more flexible and manageable, but they don’t really solve the problem of application performance where high-speed, low-latency requirements are the rule. Only by removing hops and their attendant latency from the network will we continue to see performance gains. Arista’s 7124FX switch uniquely puts customer programmable FPGAs at the edge of the network for microsecond application processing.
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4G? No, It’s More Like 4Gee!
Have you actually held a 4G device in your hands while it does a speed test? Has your brain struggled to reconcile the numbers displayed at the end of the test with the fact that you’re connected to a mobile network and not Wi-Fi? Have you felt your reality get pleasantly rocked in a way that left you a bit confounded over the numbers that your device was showing you? This 4G stuff is simply amazing.
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Compliance Issues Top 2012 Healthcare IT Agenda
What could be worse for IT departments than grappling with the issues related to Y2K? Ask a U.S. healthcare provider within the context of their top IT priorities for 2012 and their response may be government-mandated compliance.
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Is Your Network Ready For Romley?
Server manufacturers have been quick to roll out new models designed to run on Intel’s new Xeon E5 family of processors, aka Romley, which touts an 80% performance improvement over earlier Xeon versions. As surely as the knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone, a boost in server performance is going demand a bigger network pipeline. Networking vendors and other industry experts think the introduction of Romley is going to be a significant catalyst for adoption of 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity to replace 1GbE switches running in networks today.
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Ping Pitches Cloud-Based SSO
Ping Identity has announced PingOne, which it calls a cloud-based multiplexed identity switch that provides single single-on (SSO) access to cloud applications. It uses standards-based, federated SSO protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language, OAuth, and OpenID. In addition to providing SSO for users, the product also gives IT staff the ability to manage access to cloud applications in a central user directory, such as Microsoft’s Active Directory, which means there needs to be only one set of employee credentials with the required security.
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Akamai Boosts Web, Mobile App Performance
Akamai is adding two new products to its Terra Enterprise Solutions portfolio to use the cloud to improve IT performance in a number of areas, including application delivery, video streaming, security, Web site acceleration and more. On a Webcast Tuesday, Akamai executives introduced a new product that dramatically improves Web application performance and another that lets applications and Web sites open on mobile devices as quickly as they do on desktop computers.
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A Rose May Be A Rose But Dedupe Is Not Necessarily Dedupe
Today just about every vendor in the storage market has data deduplication as a feature in one or more of their products. While those of us that work with multiple deduplication products on a regular basis know there are big differences between the various technologies that vendors call data deduplication many users don’t know how to pick the deduplication solution that will best fit their needs.
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