Now that virtualization is either implemented or under way at most organizations, vendors are focusing on orchestration and automation of their infrastructure to extract pounds instead of pennies from their customers. The vision that is espoused by vendors goes something like this: Companies are spending time and resources to build servers, script OS and application installations, make storage array and network configuration changes, deliver firewall rules etc., etc. If only we had some clever software that could help to perform these repetitive and expensive tasks.
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Automation and Orchestration
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Windows Phone 7, Day 7: Tie Messaging Together With Threads
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 7
I do a fair amount of instant messaging and texting. There are some reports suggesting that texting is emerging as the preferred method of communication for a smartphone–more than voice. Obviously Windows Phone 7 is capable of both, but with Mango Microsoft adds a new twist. For today’s 30 days With Windows Phone 7 post, I am going to check out the Threads feature.
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Imperva Unveils Scalable Cloud-Based DDoS Protection
Imperva is launching a new subscription service, starting at $ 12,000 a year, that will provide protection against the majority of DDoS attacks, says Rob Rachwald, director of security strategies. Powered by Imperva’s cloud-based subsidiary Incapsula and scaling up to 4 Gbps, key capabilities include defense against all types of DDoS threats, including network-based attacks, like SYN or UDP floods, and application attacks.
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Windows Phone 7, Day 6: Let the ‘Mango’ Games Begin!
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 6
OK. Things are about to get serious. The first few days of the 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 series have been playing around with a soon-to-be-outdated version of the OS, but now thanks to Microsoft and Federal Express I’ve got my hands on a Samsung Focus running the new Windows Phone 7.5 version of the OS–a.k.a. “Mango”.
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Certificate Authority Hack Points To Bigger Problems
What with hurricanes, earthquakes and Kardashian weddings dominating recent media coverage, you may have missed the news about a recent security breach that clearly displayed a serious weakness in one of the core security mechanisms of the Internet.
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HP Continues To Nip At Cisco’s Heels In Q2 Enterprise WLAN Sales
The enterprise accounted for almost half of the very robust wireless LAN revenues in the second quarter, according to two new reports. Dell’Oro Group put the market growth at 24%, driven in large part by the enterprise segment, which surged 40%. IDC reported year-over-year revenue growth of 29.7% for the overall market, reaching $ 1.52 billion, and up 13.4% from the first quarter. Enterprise spending grew 43.4% year over year to nearly $ 725 million, and 21.9% quarter on quarter.
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Make Money Conducting Webinars with AnyMeeting
Do you have something worth sharing online that you think others would pay to see? AnyMeeting has integrated its online presentation service with PayPal to allow you to charge admission and provide you with a platform to do just that.
I have attended my fair share (and then some) of online presentations. I have also presented more than a few. Having been on both sides of that equation, I know that the vast majority of webinars are free to the participants, and are funded by the marketing budget of the company or product sponsoring the event.
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Quantivo Launches Cloud-Delivered Data Analytics Service
A data analytics firm whose corporate lineage is traced back to BigFix, an IBM acquisition, has emerged as Quantivo, which is offering data analytics as a cloud-based service. Quantivo, whose CEO, Dave Robbins, grew BigFix from a start-up to a $ 400 million business, is targeting customers that may not be the biggest companies around but still have “big data” issues to handle.
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IPv6 Address Design: /64 On a Point to Point? Yes You Can!
You’ve acquired a nice new IPv6 address block, and now you need to come up with an IPv6 address allocation design for your network. If there is one bit of advice I can offer you as you begin your IPv6 address design, it’s this: Abandon almost everything you’ve learned about IPv4 address design. Throw it right out the window.
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Google+, Day 27: Comparing Google+ with Facebook
30 Days With Google+: Day 27
I have spent most of the 30 Days With Google+ series examining Google+ on its own merits as much as possible. When all is said and done, though, I can’t ignore the fact that Google+ is a social network competing with other social networks. I dedicated Day 26 of the 30 Days With Google+ series to comparing Google+ and Twitter. Today, I will take a look at Google+ and its most direct competitor–Facebook.
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