InteropNet, the production network for Interop Las Vegas, is testing and showcasing a variety of technologies, including a network fabric from Avaya and network configuration software from Tail-f Systems.
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May 2, 2013 at 1:14 pm
On Friday, 10 months after signing up to join Google’s Glass Explorer program at Google I/O 2012, I received my invitation to purchase and pick up Google Glass.
The invitation directed me to call an 800 number, to agree to Google’s unprecedentedly restrictive terms of service, and to choose a color: Charcoal, Tangerine, Shale, Cotton or Sky. For the fashion-challenged, that translates to black, orange, gray, white or light blue.
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May 2, 2013 at 7:18 am Brocade is releasing new hardware and software to support its On-Demand Data Center strategy, which aims to help customers build a more agile, scalable data center for the virtualization age.
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May 1, 2013 at 7:18 pm Arista Networks’ 7500E makes switches exciting again. New line cards support 10, 40 and 100GbE mix-and-match ports and offer outstanding port density. Arista’s per-port pricing is also compelling.
Network Computing
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May 1, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Amazon Web Services officials touted their growing array of services and expanding customer base at an Amazon Summit 2013 in San Francisco Tuesday. Senior VP Andy Jassy sounded a familiar refrain: AWS has a high volume, low price mentality that leads to repeated service pricing reductions.
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May 1, 2013 at 7:14 am I picked up on two important trends at SNW 2013, including the role that IT can play as an internal broker for public cloud services, and the reasons enterprises are moving cautiously on emerging technology.
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May 1, 2013 at 1:12 am LivingSocial revealed last week that it was the victim of a cyber attack that compromised the account details of its 50 million customers. To address the situation, LivingSocial sent a notice to customers, and reset users’ passwords to force people to create new ones.
Don’t make the mistake of believing that changing your password is your only concern.
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April 30, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Karenann Terrell, CIO of Wal-Mart, isn’t a formidable female CIO. She is a formidable CIO, who is also a woman. And as she and some fellow IT chiefs spoke to about 500 attendees at a Michigan Council for Women in Technology leadership event this week, they modeled something still quite rare — being comfortable in your own skin as a woman and an IT leader.
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April 30, 2013 at 7:12 am
The Senate has advanced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant from a judge before they could access someone’s email or other data stored in the cloud.
Currently, under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), law enforcement agencies can subpoena any email that’s been opened by a recipient or that’s more than 180 days old; no warrant — and accompanying requirement to first demonstrate probable cause — required.
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April 30, 2013 at 1:13 am Nine vendors, including Cisco Systems, HP and Juniper Networks, are featured in our inaugural vendor comparison on software-defined networking (SDN). Our exclusive guide includes a features matrix with over 50 data points.
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April 29, 2013 at 7:14 pm 