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AppSense Unveils Smartphone Encryption
DataLocker, which will enable smartphone users to encrypt sensitive information in personal cloud services like Dropbox, is the first product to come out of the new research arm created by virtualization technology provider AppSense. Intended to create new computing technologies geared at both end users and IT, the focus of AppSense Labs will be "to research technologies that include cloud, mobile and data, and to build prototype products that bring a consumer experience to IT," the company says.
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Architectures
How 802.11n Will Revolutionize Connectivity
If you aren't replacing wired Ethernet with WLAN access for at least some employees, now is the time. The 11n protocol brings better performance, and we're seeing security and management advances too. Don't believe us? Nearly 800 survey respondents can't be wrong.
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Reviews & Workshops
Automated 802.11 Spectrum Analysis/Remediation: Benefits And Implications
With recent press releases by Cisco and Aruba Networks regarding their emergent distributed spectrum analysis capabilities, many of us in the WLAN big leagues are sitting up and taking note. Sure, we've had tools like all of the Cognio-esque spectrum analyzer variants to schlep around when need be, and today's better wireless systems try their hardest to express their discomfort graphically when interference is afoot, but what is about to be unleashed is nothing short of huge. Huge on the order of an ultra-sophisticated Air Force electronic reconnaissance plane off of some potentially unfriendly coast, soaking up signals, doing automated cataloging, and feeding them to a highly skilled analyst who decides what to do about them.
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Blogs
Aruba Networks Swings Big At BYOD And More With ClearPass
February 21, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Gone are the days of simply providing good signal in the WLAN environment. Guest requirements, the new reality of the BYOD--or bring your own device--model and increasing reliance on the wireless network as a critical resource combine to make life complicated for us in the business of enterprise wireless networking. Aruba Networks is ready to answer the back-end challenges of contemporary wireless with its new ClearPass framework, and the impressive array of features is not limited to use by Aruba customers.
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Centrify's New MDM Strategy Priced To Move
February 14, 2012 11:51 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
The mobile device management space is relatively new, but is already showing signs of being a study in same-old, same-old. How much can you really do with Apple's API for iDevices, after all? Judging by the current players, you'd think that all MDM solutions require a stand-alone management server and yet another console to administer. Though many MDM vendors put different faces on the same basic functionality, Centrify promises a unique methodology, at a price you won't believe.
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DocuSign Does Android
February 09, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
One of the great promises of the mobile device explosion is increased productivity. But productivity is in the eye of the beholder, and many mobile users still haven't caught on to the notion that you can sign documents digitally, with a legally binding signature, from a mobile device. Whether the goal is paperwork reduction or expedience, DocuSign combines the power of digital ink and a slick, cloud-enabled document-handling framework to put an end to the likes of scanning and faxing. And now, those of us with Android devices can use DocuSign, too.
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Prepare The Mobile Ship For Ludicrous Speed!
January 29, 2012 12:30 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Thinking back on the 1987 movie "Spaceballs," I picture a comical Dark Helmet standing on the bridge of his ship. In my mind, he holds a smartphone and contemplates the latest buzz on mobile network speeds, fresh from the International Telecommunications Union. As he ponders the 100-Mbps data speeds soon to be delivered by his preferred carrier, he utters the order, "Prepare for ludicrous speed," and the ship IMT-Advanced warps off to hyperspace at an impossibly crazy velocity. Speeds in the mobile data world are about to get quite exciting.
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Meraki Ups The Cloud-Based Networking Ante
January 23, 2012 10:10 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Mainstream network players and those chasing them are out to erase the lines between wireless and wired networking. As the network edge gets redefined and the cloud makes its presence felt in LAN and WLAN spaces, announcements like Meraki's latest update are getting to be more commonplace--and exciting. With a number of interesting product updates to share, Meraki is starting 2012 with a bang.
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Nearbuy Brings Shopper Analytics To Retail Wi-Fi Spaces
January 18, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
As more consumers prowl store aisles equipped with smartphones, retailers have multiple reasons to want to harness the capabilities of these user endpoints for their own benefit. Nearbuy Systems is bringing an interesting tool set to merchants that should also benefit tech-savvy shoppers with its new Captive Portal and analytics utilities.
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