As more and more internet enabled devices find their way onto company networks, the task of managing IP addresses and DNS requests for these devices becomes harder and harder. Network infrastructure vendor Infoblox has released the Trinzic Multi-Grid Manager, a new appliance designed to handle large amounts of DNS and DHCP traffic.
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Infoblox Aims To Ease Growing IP Address Management Headaches
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Microsoft And HP Announce SQL Server Appliance
Microsoft and HP announced on Thursday the November availability of the HP Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance for SQL Server. The hardware-software package is aimed at speeding deployment and simplifying management of hundreds, if not thousands of database instances in a virtualized “private cloud” environment.
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Hide Your Children, It’s a Zero Day!
It’s time for a bit of a reality check regarding the “zero-day” bogeyman. It makes for great headlines, but a new report from Microsoft shows that the frightening menace of the zero-day is more urban myth than reality.
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 11 is filled with valuable information about the current state and general trends of information security threats. This report focuses special attention on one particular aspect of security, though–the dreaded “zero-day”.
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Fretting Over 802.11ac
Call me a downer, call me a cynic but I consider myself a realist. The not-yet-draft version of IEEE 802.11ac is building up steam just off the wireless stage, and I’m here to tell my fellow wireless network administrators that now is the time to start worrying.
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Dell Unwraps First Ocarina-Based Storage Offering
In the not-so-distant past, Dell’s storage revenues primarily consisted of EMC commissions, which at a reported $ 1.29 billion in 2008 were nothing to sneer at. Fast forward to today after the acquisitions of companies like Compellent and EqualLogic, and the company’s own intellectual property now represents nearly 80 percent of its storage revenues and more than 90 percent of its storage profits. Dell is now looking to leverage another acquisition, Ocarina Network (data compression and deduplication software), to drive its storage sales even higher.
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Four Ways RIM Can Rebound from BlackBerry Outage
BlackBerry users around the world have been impacted this week with service outages. RIM has offered an explanation of the problem and apologized, but it’s going to take more than a simple “We’re sorry” for RIM to regain the faith of loyal customers.
RIM is already spiraling to its doom. With iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S launching this week, Windows Phone “Mango” rolling out, and Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” on the imminent horizon, there are plenty of very awesome alternatives out there.
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BlueStacks Brings Android Apps To Windows
Bluestacks is a virtualization layer that runs on Windows PCs and allows users to run Android apps. Rather than run a full Android emulator, including the UI, Bluestacks provides enough of the Android OS to run most apps as if they were native Windows apps.
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Cisco VDI Blitz Includes Tighter Citrix Relationship
Cisco is looking to carve a bigger slice out of the desktop virtualization market with new products, services and an expanded relationship with VDI powerhouse Citrix Systems. The networking company says that hundreds of customers have rolled out Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View deployments based on Cisco data center solutions.
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Cisco Challenges HP Claim That Its Networking Equipment Is Cheapest
Cisco Systems has released a study it commissioned that challenges HP’s claim that its networking equipment is 30 percent to 50 percent less expensive than Cisco’s. The study, shared on a Cisco Web cast Monday, shows that while the upfront cost of HP equipment is less, when the TCO of the network over five years is factored in, the Cisco premium shrinks to only 4 percent to 7 percent and that the quality of Cisco network technology is worth that modest premium.
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