This week I’m on the road at SNW in Orlando and then to speak at Dell’s Tech Summit internal event leading into Dell World in Austin. During all the chaos of interplanetary travel, I rely heavily on Google Voice and its ability to track me down like a dog. When I discovered yesterday that my cell phone had gone among the missing; Google Voice once again came through for me.
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Google Voice Saves The Day
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Overland Bets Big On Provision-Free Storage
Financially, Overland Storage can barely be seen in the rear-view mirrors of the top five disk storage vendors, but technically, the company is staking a claim in the SMB and distributed enterprise markets. The company is introducing SnapServer DX, a unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that eliminates the need to provision storage capacity.
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Why the iPhone 3GS Is Apple’s Secret Weapon
Last week was a huge week for Apple. First the iPhone 4S was unveiled and met with criticism that it wasn’t an iPhone 5. Then Steve Jobs passed away. Then Apple and its wireless providers shattered previous records by pre-selling a million of the “disappointing” iPhone 4Ss on Friday. One thing that didn’t seem to get the attention it deserves is the iPhone 3GS.
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Sourcefire Claims First IPS For 40GbE
In what Sourcefire, Inc. calls an industry first, the security vendor’s latest additions to its intrusion protection systems appliance lineup allow quad stacking to grow throughput to over 40Gbps of IPS inspection for Ethernet networks in 10Gbps increments. The company is introducing the mid-market (3D7000 series), additions to its high end (3D8000 series) and the SSL Appliance for ‘lightning fast’ SSL decryption.
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Narus Adds Analytics Tool To Network Traffic Scanner
A company that offers software to scan computer networks for trouble is adding analytics capability in order to better determine the source of that trouble. Narus has upgraded its NarusInsight Solution for Cyber Protection and added NarusInsight Solution for Cyber Analytics for deeper analysis of network anomalies.
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WLANs Evolve With vWLAN 2.1
The evolution of the WLAN industry has been a curious, somewhat flip-floppy study in design philosophy. Stand alone, intelligent access points got the party started over a decade ago, and somewhere along the line lost favor to controller-based super systems. Now the big, expensive controller has become a target for frequent criticism as a growing number of vendors present innovative alternatives to funneling all WLAN traffic back to a central processing point. Bluesocket is among the latest to de-emphasize the importance of the controller, while also adding management of wired users with its recently introduced vWLAN 2.1 platform.
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Red Hat Acquires Storage Firm Gluster
Gluster Inc. has been acquired by the open source vendor Red Hat, forming the core of a storage unit that is being created around the
acquisition and that will be headed by both Gluster and Red Hat staff. With the acquisition, users will be able to use open source software to create a storage cluster for unstructured data based on commodity hardware from a variety of vendors.
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Emulex Claims Top FC HBA Performance
Emulex Corporation calls its new LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters the fastest FC HBAs announced, able to deliver over one million I/O per second (IOPS) on a single port. Already being sampled by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the single-channel LPe16000 and dual-channel Lpe16002 adapters will be available later this quarter.
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Keep Track of Your Money with Quicken 2012
Are you good with money? In an economy where every penny counts, it is crucial to stay on top of where your money is coming from and where it’s going. Intuit has added new features to Quicken 2012 that improve the venerable finance software and help consumers and small businesses manage their finances better.
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SuperMicro Deserves Some Respect
I’ve long thought that SuperMicro was the Rodney Dangerfield of server vendors. After years of delivering solid, if not especially exciting, servers, they still don’t get no respect from most customers, who’d rather buy their servers from HP, IBM or Dell. SuperMicro may be worth a second look as their products have evolved from generic 1 and 2 processor tower and rackmount servers and may be just the cost effective solution to one or more of your server problems.
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