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Wireless is all the rage for sports teams as they try to lure fans to stadiums, but designing sports venue WLANs is complex. Here’s a look at the Eagles’ Wi-Fi rollout.
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Western Digital’s $ 685 million acquisition of PCIe flash specialist Virident lets it compete with flash giants such as Intel/Micron and Samsung. But where was Seagate in all this?
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From VTEPs to OVSDB, VMware’s NSX introduces unfamiliar protocols and technologies to the data center network. Check out this overview to get up to speed.
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A new report shows the WAN acceleration/optimization market is shrinking. WAN optimization won’t go away, but don’t look for growth either.
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This year’s InformationWeek 500 winners shared inspiring stories of how technology improved customer service and employee productivity. We’ve picked the 20 best tales of innovation worth borrowing. (Some might call it stealing.)
Two common themes this year are the use of Web-based collaboration tools and mobile apps that take up arms against bloated software and workflow complexity. Home Depot, for example, launched MyInstall, a personalized Web portal designed to help customers keep close tabs on each phase of a home improvement project. Public relations firm Ketchum built IdeaShop, a searchable database containing great ideas that were never sold to clients but are still ripe for use.
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IT managers may be excited about VMware’s new virtual storage product, but they aren’t necessarily ready to run out and buy it when it becomes available.
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VMware is making good on its talk about software-defined storage with three products: vFlash, VSAN and Virsto. But as always, there are pros and cons.
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You might think at first glance that WiGig is better than Wi-Fi, and that given the choice between the two you’d obviously want the one with the word “gig” in the name. It sounds faster, because it is. However, WiGig has limitations that restrict it to more niche uses than traditional Wi-Fi.
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Healthcare company UPMC is exploring cloud computing not because that’s trendy, but because it must cope with 5 PB of patient data that will double in the next 18 months. ConocoPhillips is just now embracing more real-time analytics on its natural gas wells, because it sees the chance to turn that data into double-digit percentage increases in gas output. Miami Children’s Hospital is testing a tablet app that allows for remote doctor visits, because it sees the potential for a new revenue source.
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One of the most important first steps to any database security strategy is also, coincidentally, one of the most likely to be forgotten: enumerating the databases an organization manages. After all, unless an enterprise knows how many databases it has and which ones contain sensitive information, it is pretty difficult to prioritize them based on risk and implement appropriate controls. And, yet, many organizations are operating in the dark with regard to database discovery.
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