Lately, the solutions I’ve analyzed through the lens of BYOD have usually had something to do with smartphone and application management. But Wi-Fi vendors are also well aware of the procedural and technical complexities spawned by clients that show up with all sorts of gadgets that need to simply work on the WLAN. Meru Networks has recently introduced a new feature set for their WLAN product line that helps with BYOD and other aspects of today’s changing wireless landscape.
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Meru Network Embraces BYOD, Offers Beefy New Hardware
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Juniper Offers OpenFlow Source Code To Developers
Juniper Networks is jumping on the OpenFlow bandwagon, putting the OpenFlow source code in the Junos SDK. The company says that the OpenFlow application works within the SDK to change the control plane to create more dynamic network programmability for custom applications that run on top of the Junos operating system.
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Infineta Launches Pay-As-You-Go WAN Optimization Service
There are three objectives behind the launch of Infineta Systems’ pay-as-you-go WAN optimization service offering built around the company’s DMS product, says Haseeb Budhani, VP, products. Originally intended to address customers who were facing data migration projects but didn’t want WAN optimization, the new service also appeals to service providers who don’t want to spend anything on CapEx and want to do it all in OpEx.
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Why Are You Still Using Windows XP?
A lot has happened since 2001. Technology evolves rapidly, and you won’t find many instances of someone using the same technology today that they used a decade ago. Yet, Windows XP just turned 10 years old and many businesses and users still rely on the antiquated operating system.
When Windows XP was introduced, many of the concepts and technologies we currently take for granted were in their infancy, or didn’t yet exist. Microsoft has an infographic that illustrates many of the fundamental changes computing that have occurred over the last 10 years.
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Hypervisors Are Not the Droids You Seek
Long ago, in a data center far, far away, we as an industry moved away from ‘big iron’ and onto commodity hardware. That move brought with it many advantages but it also brought higher hardware and operating system software failure rates. This change in application stability forced us to change our deployment model, and build the silo’d application environment we still use today: One application, one operating system, one server.
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Can ShoreTel Be Everyone’s Mobility Solution?
There are a growing number of stories to be told about management frameworks in the corporate mobile device space. Some are about one-trick ponies tied to limited device types or PBXs, while others describe solutions that are so flush with functionality that you have to study them for a while to fully appreciate what they offer. ShoreTel Mobility is one of those impressive stories that may take some review to fully appreciate.
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Dell Boomi Upgrades Simplify Cloud Integration
Less than a year after acquiring Boomi, a SaaS integration developer for cloud computing, Dell is unveiling its second major release of its AtomSphere offering, Fall 11. The company says it has seen 300% YOY growth in overall usage, with customers now averaging 3.7 atoms (run-time integration engines), 11 connections of integrated applications and over 600 process executions per day.
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Do Calendar Developers Travel?
As a consultant, speaker and all too frequent conference attendee, I, like many of you, spend a good part of my life on the road, which frequently means I’m making appointments for meetings in cities and timezones across the country. Unfortunately, none of the tools I’ve tried really understand the life of a road warrior.
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