The public cloud presents new opportunities and challenges for IT. Applications and services can be spun up on demand, relieving IT of provisioning and maintenance burdens. But IT is still on the hook for security, service level management, identity and authentication, and more. Our Public Cloud Tech Center delivers strategies, best practices, emerging technology and the latest IT-based research to help guide you through the provider claims, business demands and technology challenges that come with SaaS, IaaS and more.
News and Analysis
F5 Tackles BYOD with MDM Products and Services
News roundup: F5 announces MDM software and SaaS service; Citrix leverages Zenprise acquisition to launch XenMobile; GroundWork Monitor watches hybrid cloud environments.
McAfee Launches Real-Time Security Policy Software
News roundup: McAfee connects ePolicy Orchestrator to Enterprise Security Manager; Arista Launches Data Analyzer; Zscaler goes big with Security Cloud analytics; Anturis unveils beta IT monitoring tool
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Blogs
Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud
December 04, 2012 07:10 AM
Posted by Michael Biddick
Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.
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A Ruckus Over WLAN Testing
November 30, 2012 03:37 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
A competitive review of WLAN products at Syracuse University stirred up controversy because of a vendor’s involvement in the tests. But the real question is, are they testing the right things?
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The Case for UC Interoperability
November 28, 2012 07:44 PM
Posted by Michael Finneran
A lack of interoperability among unified communications platforms isn't suited to today's business needs, particularly because partners, suppliers and resellers need to collaborate and communicate more closely than ever. It's time for the UC industry to step up.
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Disaster Recovery Lessons You Might Have Missed
November 27, 2012 11:45 AM
Posted by David Greenfield
Hurricane Sandy had a lot to teach technology professionals about disaster recovery and business continuity. It certainly reinforced the basics—back up your data and test your DR systems—but there are other lessons to learn. Here are five.
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Why We Need Network Abstraction
November 26, 2012 03:16 PM
Posted by Joe Onisick
Highly virtualized data centers are exposing cracks in traditional network constructs such as VLANs. New approaches that abstract the physical network, including network overlays, are key to providing flexibility and scale.
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Intel On The Wrong Side Of Moore's Law
November 20, 2012 03:30 PM
Posted by Art Wittmann
ARM's stellar performance provides a hint at what Intel must do in the next decade to stay ahead in the chip business.
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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.
