Tuesday, May 11, 2010

First-ever test of public cloud management wares

Opsview upgrades open source monitoring offering | Aruba buys Azalea Networks for industrial mesh wireless in $40M deal

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First-ever test of public cloud management wares
It's simple to rent raw compute power on the public cloud. The challenge is to deploy, manage, and take down jobs that are hosted in the cloud. In this groundbreaking test, we set up public cloud accounts at Amazon, Rackspace and GoGrid, and tested management services from RightScale, Tap In Systems and Cloudkick under real world conditions. Read More


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Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

Opsview upgrades open source monitoring offering
Opsview, the open source systems and apps monitoring software has updated its Community edition to coincide with the release of coincide with the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Read More


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Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide
Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More!

Aruba buys Azalea Networks for industrial mesh wireless in $40M deal
Aruba Networks will buy a start-up in outdoor mesh wireless technology, Azalea Networks, in a cash and stock deal valued at $40.5 million. Read More


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Troubleshooting Application Problems
This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here!

What you need to know about the FCC's broadband plan
So is Federal Communications Commission really going to place common carrier restrictions on Internet service providers? Well, yes, but not too many of them. Read More

Telecom experts call for rewrite of communications law
The U.S. law governing the telecommunications industry was last updated before Internet use was widespread, and Congress needs to begin the process of updating the law, a group of telecom experts said Friday. Read More

A healthy glow from Interop
If the annual Interop conference in Las Vegas is a bellwether of industry health, than the recent show reflected a certain vibrancy. Attendee levels seemed steady and show goers packed into conference sessions to hone their knowledge and roamed the floor to see the latest tech wares. Read More



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