News and Analysis
4 Big BYOD Trends For 2013
Interop Las Vegas speaker Michael Finneran and other BYOD experts discuss key trends enterprise IT leaders should watch in 2013.
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Architectures
11ac's First Wave: What to Expect
802.11ac will super-charge Wi-Fi, but pre-standard products will come with limitations. Here's what you can expect as 11ac products debut in 2013.
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Reviews & Workshops
HP Spectre XT Pro Ultrabook Ideal for the Road
HP's Spectre XT Pro ultrabook is a versatile, compact computer that's light enough to take on the road but can also serve as a day-to-day desk machine. It offers a long battery life, a fast startup, and high-quality sound and video.
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Blogs
Next Generation Firewalls 101
March 01, 2013 01:37 AM
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Next generation firewalls combine application awareness and deep packet inspection to give companies more control over applications while also detecting and blocking malicious threats.
WLAN Stress Tests: What’s the Use?
February 26, 2013 04:29 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Wireless hardware testing can shed much-needed light on Wi-Fi products when every vendor claims to have the best stuff. But you have to pay attention to the testing details.
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Will SDN Kill TRILL?
February 26, 2013 10:53 AM
Posted by Ethan Banks
Layer 2 multipathing standards such as TRILL and SPB may seem redundant in an SDN world. But these standards still have a role to play while we wait to see how the SDN market matures.
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IBM Turns IT into Storage Service Provider
February 25, 2013 02:01 PM
Posted by David Hill
IBM's SmartCloud Storage Access turns premises storage into a service that IT can offer to internal users via a service catalog.
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Cloud Storage and Sync: A Bubble Destined to Burst
February 22, 2013 12:28 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The proliferation of cloud file sharing services is out of control. It can only end badly for most of these companies—and their users.
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Virident Unlocks PCIe Flash From a Single Server
February 22, 2013 11:20 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Virident is releasing software that makes PCIe flash behave more like a SAN or distributed cache, expanding the performance boost of PCIe flash across multiple servers.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
