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Voting Machines Should Be As Secure As Slot Machines
November 06, 2012 02:32 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Casino gaming machines undergo independent scrutiny to certify their reliability. Shouldn’t voting machines get the same treatment?
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Apple's Fusion Drive: An Inside Look
November 02, 2012 11:11 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Apple's Fusion Drive, a hybrid of SSD and hard disk, revs up iMac performance while also providing terabytes of capacity. PC makers should pay attention to this powerful combination.
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Superstorm Sandy Lessons: 100% Uptime Isn't Always Worth It
October 31, 2012 10:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Sandy brought out the worst in some tech pundits who were ready to pounce on companies that went offline in the face of a 100-year catastrophe. But in cases like Sandy, continuous uptime is the wrong goal.
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Microsoft Buys Cloud Gateway Provider StorSimple
October 18, 2012 06:12 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Microsoft’s acquisition validates the market for premises-based storage that also links to the cloud, and inaugurates the software giant as a provider of IT hardware.
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Remote Backup Replication Continues to Gain Momentum
October 05, 2012 10:59 AM
Posted by David Hill
A recent survey shows increasing adoption of network-based replication of backup data, which is key to a robust data protection and disaster recovery strategy.
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Cisco's Connect Cloud Policy Change Was Bad Business
July 06, 2012 01:02 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto
Late last month, Cisco started requiring users to create Connect Cloud accounts to manage their routers, and changed its policy to allow data collection and retention. The company has changed course; find out why that's for the best.
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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.
