Today’s networks are awash in traffic, making it difficult for administrators to find what is pertinent when diagnosing network packets for security issues and performance. Those harried administrators can turn to the latest smart taps to ease their packet gathering chores.
Network Computing
Smart Taps Getting Smarter
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Hadoop Tames Big Data for the Enterprise
Big Data can mean big opportunities for the majority of organizations, but only if they can make sense of the data in a reasonable amount of time.
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Piston Cloud Delivers Private Cloud In Hours For As Little As $800
IT departments looking at standing up private cloud environments in a hurry, and without some of the complexity usually associated with cloud infrastructure, would do well to take a look at Piston Cloud from Piston Cloud Computing.
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Five Ways to Solve the 4G/LTE iPad Data Consumption Dilemma
The new 4G/LTE iPad has only been on the street for a week, and already there are complaints and horror stories of voraciously burning through data plan bandwidth caps. People who are used to 3G speeds are shocked when the 4G/LTE iPad eats the data allotment in a fraction of the time.
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Six Features You’ll Love in Office 15
Most of the attention on Redmond this year is focused on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. But, the next generation of Microsoft Office is also currently under development–ostensibly to be launched along side Windows 8 this fall–and Office 15 has the potential to be the real hero among the two.
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Security Professionals Get The Best Toys
Do think penetration testers–the people that companies hire to break into organizations and test their defenses–remain immersed in the pale glow of a stack of monitors listening to techno and mainlining over-caffeinated fruit drinks? I was visiting Steve Stasikounis, CEO of Secure Network Technologies and Dark Reading contributor, last week in his offices, and he couldn’t help showing off his latest penetration testing and forensic investigation tools.
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Quantum Dedupes Data Before It Hits The Cloud
Quantum Corp. a provider of data protection and big data management, has announced a software platform to help customers take advantage of cloud-based data protection, using its vmPro technology and newly launched virtual de-duplication appliance, DXi V1000. The company has also partnered with Xerox, which will use its underlying technology for its cloud backup and disaster recovery services.
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WWPass: Only The Just May Pass the Authentication Test
Security has many facets, but the one that is most familiar is the username/password authentication process that allows users to login to a protected application or Website. For some, that may simply seem to be an inconvenience, but the authentication process helps reduce possible security exposures.
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Flat Network Strength Also A Security Weakness
Security is one of the biggest concerns and challenges for today’s interconnected systems, regardless of the network type deployed. However, the intricacies of Flat Networks bring new nuisances to best security practices, which can be addressed by combining some common sense with some industry-leading practices.
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Networking In The Cloud
In discussing network design with my clients, I talk about how routers, firewalls and other network gear can be interconnected to provide a scalable and redundant IP network. These foundations of network design apply to networks composed of tangible components or the virtualized infrastructure that extends corporate data centers to the cloud. I find that the networking aspects of cloud computing are frequently overlooked or addressed as an afterthought.
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