As load balancing and other network functions get delivered via virtual appliances, does the hardware ADC have a future?
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August 23, 2013 at 1:13 am
The outage that beset Amazon.com’s retail home page lasted longer than some observers first believed. Reports have put the outage variously at 15 minutes, 25 minutes or “just under a half an hour,” as Forbes reported soon after the incident.
But in fact, it lasted 49 minutes, according to a monitoring service at Compuware, the owner of CloudSleuth cloud service monitoring and the Gomez Web application performance monitoring system, now part of the Compuware APM service. Despite inquiries, Amazon.com spokesmen have remained silent on the cause of the incident Monday and its duration. News reports have been sketchy.
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August 22, 2013 at 7:13 pm Don’t fall into the vendor trap of buying more than you need. Follow these rules to avoid overspending on your network gear.
Network Computing
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August 22, 2013 at 1:15 pm
For many companies used to problem-free patching, August’s Black Tuesday–the second Tuesday of the month when Microsoft releases its latest security fixes–stands as a reminder that software systems are complex and patching software can lead to problems.
Last week, Microsoft warned that three of the Patch Tuesday software updates–closing four security issues in its Exchange Server, one in the Windows kernel and another in Active Directory–caused problems for some of its customers. Companies that applied patches immediately may have lost the ability to search e-mail, had random crashes on Windows, or found that Active Directory’s federation services stopped working.
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Microsoft Patch Problems Underline Tradeoffs For Securing Systems
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August 22, 2013 at 7:13 am Purchasing a switch requires careful consideration of routing and performance needs, among other factors. Follow this decision tree to save money and avoid buyer’s remorse.
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August 22, 2013 at 1:15 am Could the open source OS designed for smartphones and tablets eventually threaten Windows’ dominance on the desktop? Don’t hold your breath.
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August 21, 2013 at 7:13 pm Startup Crossbar bets on resistive random-access memory in the race to find a replacement for flash storage.
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August 21, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Google’s latest cautious moves on behalf of its computerized eyewear hasn’t matched the spectacle seen at the debut of Glass last year, as skydivers wearing the device descended on the company’s 2012 developer conference.
The company’s slow rollout to a few thousand developers has only just expanded, with early adopters now able to invite their friends to pay $ 1,500 for the opportunity to try a device that, in some form or another, will expand the way people think about mediated interaction and mobile technology.
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Google Glass To Arm Police, Firefighters
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August 21, 2013 at 7:12 am Technicians at Bristol Virginia Utilities no longer have to hit the road to diagnose network problems, saving time and money.
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August 21, 2013 at 1:12 am Wow. No sooner did I finish writing about how the Google and Microsoft outages were not a reason to lose confidence in the cloud, than Amazon went down. The online retail site—and its associated cloud services—were down for just under half an hour Monday afternoon. I stand by my assertion that the sky is not falling, but there’s more to using the cloud than just availability.
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Despite recent cloud service outages, security a bigger concern than availability
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August 20, 2013 at 7:13 pm 