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Throughout the 30 Days with the Cloud experiment I have explored the pros and cons associated with using cloud-based services, or storing data in the cloud. The goal has been to figure out whether or not relying on the cloud is a good idea. The reality, though, is that the cloud may not be optional.
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I’ve been considering how to build a network security plan for a small data center with an online presence. To put the proposal together I needed to develop some sort of structure in the security space so that I could research products and vendors. What I found is that implementing firewalls and IDSes is simple. Finding competent security professionals is not.
Network Computing
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Just weeks after EMC unveiled five security and risk management advisory services, driven in part by the need to ‘provide its customers with end-to-end solutions’, the storage giant’s consulting arm is at it again, with a new set of service offerings. The company says the new additions to its cloud services portfolio will accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing, and will align to such critical IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) elements as cloud infrastructure, cloud optimized applications, and end-user computing.
Network Computing
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This week I spent two busy days in San Francisco at the second annual Tape Summit. While some may wonder if there’s enough life left in tape to have a summit I know tape has taken a bad rap over the past few years. In this post I’ll reflect on a few key facts that came out at the summit and expose some fallacies about tape. To start Gartner never said “71% of all attempts to restore from tape fail”.
Network Computing
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Vice President Joe Biden once said, “Don’t tell me your values, show me your budget and I’ll tell you your values.” If the vice president saw the enterprise IT spending budgets, he would rightly conclude that they place an increasingly higher value on their networks as the critical circulation system for all of their IT assets. As demands are placed on networks to handle more video traffic, migrate to 10GbE connectivity, connect mobile and wireless devices, and handle the increase in data traffic brought about by virtualization, companies are investing significantly in their networks in 2012.
Network Computing
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Big Switch Networks, which is considered an early leader in the push for software-defined networking (SDN) based on the Open Flow protocol, is putting its own stake in the ground, declaring its commitment to open standards in developing new technology to bring virtualization to networking environments. This week, to mark its second anniversary, the company announced its Open SDN (a trademarked term) architecture based on ‘three pillars’ of open standards, open APIs and open source.
Network Computing
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Unstructured data is becoming a more frequent IT buzzword these days, and it’s something organizations are grappling with: how to get a handle on email, Office documents and PDFs, among other data-clogging sources. Microsoft’s SharePoint document repository was built to provide content collaboration and version control. But as user adoption increases, so does the amount of data that is stored in SharePoint, which critics say can wreak havoc on its infrastructure, and lead to poor performance, along with the corresponding management headaches.
Network Computing
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Citrix has introduced the Cloud Provider Pack, a set of software intended for its Citrix Service Providers (CSPs) to provide to its own hosted shared desktop customers, which makes it easier for the CSPs to deliver cloud-hosted applications and desktops. This is particularly true for mobile devices because the services are optimized for them. The software has three main components – app orchestration technology, which lets CSPs provide packaged offerings of software and other services; the ability to support applications running on both public and private clouds; and the mobility pack, which makes the software easier to use with a tablet.
Network Computing
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The wide area network (WAN) optimization market is expected to grow almost 60% over the next five years, with sales predicted to reach $ 1.65 billion in 2016, from $ 1.05 billion in 2011. WAN optimization controllers (WOC), as they’re called, not only speed up network traffic and improve the performance of applications, they also help enterprises avoid costly upgrades to bandwidth capacity.
Network Computing
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Around 2005, several US cities tried to make a go of metropolitan wireless networking. Many of the initiatives were costly failures, and just as many morphed into shadows of their intended scales and uses. But in IT, sometimes old ideas come back with new teeth. In a recent announcement, Ruckus Wireless announced a new urban wireless project, and in the most curious of locations. It will be interesting to see how this one pans out, and for multiple reasons.
Network Computing
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