randy george

analyst

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Windows Server 2008: A WAN Op Strategy

July 30, 2010

Bluecoat, Citrix, F5, Riverbed and other similar vendors all offer highly functional and well performing WAN Optimization appliances. Unfortunately, those high-end solutions can be either...

Data Centers

Get Ready For The Impact Of 2048-bit RSA Keys

randy george

July 22, 2010

If you've had to renew an SSL certificate for any of your critical infrastructure delivery devices recently, then you probably took notice of the need to generate and deliver at least a...

Data Centers

SMB Storage Replication: Acceleration VS More Bandwidth

randy george

June 24, 2010

With the cost of secondary storage and bandwidth plummeting, does it really make sense to invest in expensive acceleration solutions to service your storage replication needs? Faced with...

Data Centers

Ready For Open Source WAN Acceleration?

randy george

June 14, 2010

Open-source products have always had a place in enterprise IT. Administrators and engineers usually have some open source tools around, whether on production systems, in a test and dev lab...

Data Centers

Embracing Virtual WAN Acceleration

randy george

May 28, 2010

Almost every major WAN Acceleration vendor has jumped in on the virtual appliance bandwagon. The question is, are you ready to give up that shiny new appliance with your vendor's logo and...

Data Centers

Metering Social Networking Sites At The Gateway

randy george

March 29, 2010

Most managers have no problem with a little internet frivolity during business hours. A personal E-mail here and a Facebook posting there can't possibly interfere with productivity on any...

Data Centers

Default Passwords Can Kill You

randy george

March 01, 2010

It's been widely reported that Czech security experts recently uncovered a large botnet that exploited the weak and default passwords of many broadband routers and DSL/Cable modems. The...

Data Centers

WAN Link Aggregation

randy george

February 16, 2010

Is the high cost of bandwidth from Tier-1 providers crushing your operating budget? Fight back with some value engineering in the form of WAN Link Aggregation. It wasn't that long ago that...

Data Centers

E-Mail Encryption Goes Mainstream

randy george

February 04, 2010

Fess up, have you ever emailed your credit card number or Social Security number to a friend, family member, or even to a third party? I have, and yes, I was a bonehead for doing it. In the...

Data Centers

Will Desktop Virtualization Break-Out In 2010?

randy george

January 04, 2010

We've been covering Desktop Virtualization ad nauseam at Network Computing and for good reason. As a technology, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has the potential to change the way we...

The Dark Side Of Data Loss Prevention

randy george

December 17, 2009

Plugging data leaks requires more from IT than just software deployment.

Data Centers

Extreme Catching Up On Enterprise WiFi

randy george

December 13, 2009

The switching business is tough, and Extreme Networks has faced its share of hard times recently. With the departure of CEO Mark Canepa in late October and with the announcement of a...

Data Centers

Backup Adminstrators' Best Practices

randy george

December 01, 2009

A peer of mine at another organization is stuck in a time warp. Every day at 5PM he must shuffle tapes back and forth, deal with long back-up windows and deal with restore issues due to the...

Networking

Rolling Review: Acronis Deploys Windows 7 With Ease

randy george

November 19, 2009

The software gets the new OS to your users quickly and easily, but lacks management features.

InformationWeek Analytics: Data Loss Prevention

randy george

July 01, 2009

Security pros continue the shift from protecting systems to protecting data, and it's about time. Technologies like data loss prevention purport to help. Here's what you need to know about...

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