Faced with rapid growth and increases in the amount and complexity of data and its IT operations, RJ Lee Group went looking for a way to simplify its computing infrastructure. The company ended up selecting Spiceworks as an alternative to adding staff or spending a lot of money on network and system management software.
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Freeware Increases RJ Lee’s Management Efficiency
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Thought Experiment – Forget ROI
Boys and girls, today’s homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CxO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is of course one catch; you may not factor in ROI. We’re dropping ROI because it clouds the subject (bad pun intended.) Let’s skip the why should I do this experiment; I’d of course default to ‘Because I told you so.’
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Meraki Ups The Cloud-Based Networking Ante
Mainstream network players and those chasing them are all out to erase the lines between wireless and wired networking. As the network edge gets redefined and the cloud makes its presence felt in LAN and WLAN spaces, announcements like Meraki’s latest update are getting to be more commonplace, and exciting. With a number of interesting product updates to share, Meraki is starting 2012 with a bang.
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MegaUpload Takedown Proves SOPA and PIPA Are Unnecessary
It has been a huge week when it comes to protecting intellectual property and defending the freedom of the Internet. Following a massive blackout on Wednesday to oppose pending SOPA legislation, the United States government took down MegaUpload.com–demonstrating why we don’t need SOPA in the first place.
Debate has been raging on Capitol Hill over two pending bills–SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the House, and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) in the Senate. Supporters insist that copyright violations and intellectual property theft are a rampant online epidemic, and that sweeping, draconian legislation is the only viable solution.
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Thales and Infoblox Address Weak DNSSEC Demand
Information systems and communications security vendor Thales has integrated its nShield hardware security module (HSM) with the Infoblox DNS platform to provide customers with simple deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a security protocol designed to protect the Internet from attacks like cache poisoning.
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Making Sense of the New AT&T Data Plans
AT&T is at it again. In June of 2010, AT&T pulled the plug on its unlimited data plans and switched to tiered bandwidth plans. Now, AT&T is switching things up again – giving customers more megabytes per dollar, but charging more money in the process. So, which AT&T data plan is right for you?
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Microsoft System Center 2012 Revealed
Microsoft’s System Center 2012, which we discussed in Microsoft’s System Center 2012: Building A Private Cloud is the latest foray by a big vendor to bring private cloud to the masses. While there are many improvements to System Center, building a private cloud using anyone’s software is far from easy. At Microsoft’s private cloud reviewers workshop, we got a peek at the sausage factory. There are a lot of components to configure but Microsoft did a good job streamlining many of the processes.
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Atlantis VDI Ups IOPs Performance 10-20X
Atlantis Computing has announced Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI, a virtual desktop infrastructure product that makes use of server-based blade storage that it claims eliminates storage for Citrix and VMware virtual desktop operating system images. This means that users can reduce the capital expenses associated with VDI to less than $ 200 per desktop while providing boot times of 12 seconds. The company has particularly tested the product with Cisco UCS blade servers, which can deploy up to 6,400 virtual desktops in one rack, and is promoting it with Cisco, but it is server-agnostic.
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Dell Moves Ahead Fluidly in Storage
The IT industry is always adapting to new trends, from client-server and the PC revolution of the ’80s and ’90s to cloud computing and big data today. These trends inspire successful new vendor entrants, but they can also be problematic for established IT vendors. Over time, some leaders don’t adapt and die (see Digital Equipment Corporation), while others swoon and survive in a reduced state by being acquired by larger saviors (see Sun Microsystems).
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