I spoke with Houston Methodist Hospital’s WLAN architect, who described how his team maintains strict security and performs troubleshooting on the hospital’s massive Wi-Fi network.
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October 23, 2013 at 1:14 pm People are increasingly relying on smartphones and tablets for their computing needs, which means that those users also depend on the mobile browser for their Web surfing. A new survey from FixYa compiles customer input to rank how users feel about the different mobile browser options.
There are other browser apps available for the various mobile platforms, but the report from FixYa focuses on the top five: Stock Android, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Of those five, Safari stands out in two categories: market share and usability ranking.
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October 23, 2013 at 7:16 am
The world needs independent testing labs that can review off-the-shelf IT products and rate their trustworthiness — not only on the performance front but also from an information security standpoint.
That’s the pitch being advanced by $ 35 billion Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei. “Over the past couple of months there have been a number of revelations that have created a crisis of confidence in the information security industry,” said Bill Plummer, Huawei’s VP of external affairs, speaking by phone. “If the industry is to move forward, it’s in all of our best interests to come up with common solutions.”
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October 22, 2013 at 7:12 pm Disk drives just got interesting with Seagate’s new Kinetic Open Storage platform, an architecture that creates smart disk drives with Ethernet interfaces.
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October 22, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Editor’s note: VMware’s Martin Casado and Bruce Davie team up to comment on the benefits of one aspect of software-defined networking: overlaying a physical network with a virtual net. The authors didn’t necessarily intend it that way, but this piece in large measure answers the questions raised by Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco, in her Aug. 28 blog, Limitations of a Software-Only Approach to Data Center Networking.
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October 22, 2013 at 7:12 am The mobile workforce faces a challenge. Smartphones and tablets work fine for most business purposes, but handheld devices with tiny microphones and speakers are not ideal for audio and video conferencing. Logitech is seeking to remedy that with the new P710e mobile speakerphone.
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Logitech P710e mobile speakerphone lets you conference like a pro
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October 22, 2013 at 1:16 am Survey of data center operators indicates they’re overwhelmed by outages and aren’t sure of their ability to minimize their impact.
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October 21, 2013 at 7:23 pm Network and security engineers will be sidelined if they don’t understand where network virtualization is going, and why they need to go with it.
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October 21, 2013 at 1:16 pm To address the lack of performance comparisons between IaaS cloud providers and their services, I created my own benchmarking project. Here’s how I’m testing instance types across major IaaS providers such as AWS.
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October 21, 2013 at 7:20 am Virtualization giant expands its cloud management portfolio with new capabilities to help IT manage public and hybrid cloud services.
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October 19, 2013 at 7:14 pm 