The glass is greener: an explosion in capacity

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	The glass is greener: an explosion in capacity Back in 2007, my company predicted that demand for network bandwidth — specifically IP bandwidth — would exceed capacity in the 2010/2011 timeframe. We arrived at that conclusion by independently modeling network consumption and capacity, and we highlighted growth in wireless as a key element in driving demand. Three years later, it's clear we were right. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint A Unified Communications Case Study Unified Communications helped Sprint save millions of dollars. Find out how you can save! Learn More In this Issue SCO: So die already! Google, Microsoft online apps both fail over privacy ... Does Open Source Suffer From A Glass Ceiling? Dell says Ubuntu is safer than Windows Studying the Role of Microsoft and Novell Microsoft "all in" the cloud, customers not as much One argument for Office 2010 you might not have considered Cloud Leadership Forum is progress report on cloud computing End of life for CSA? That's okay! Four critical US cybersecurity projects that need constant pressure The one kind of open source, and the other kind Is the U.S. prepared for cyber war or are we sitting ducks? Smartphones - will Microsoft pull it off? WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center SCO: So die already! Another shoe has dropped for the SCO Group -- this makes about a dozen -- but when will this outfit go away? Read More Google, Microsoft online apps both fail over privacy ... Microsoft and Google are no longer pretending to play nice. They have attacked each other with virtual blood spilled on each side. While these two giants are busy battling for dominance, will you suffer as your right to privacy falls by the wayside? Read More Does Open Source Suffer From A Glass Ceiling? Does open source software suck so much money out of the software acquisition equation that the result is open source based companies struggle to break through the billion dollar business level? Think about it, the very model of open source creates a glass ceiling which open source companies cannot break through. Read More Dell says Ubuntu is safer than Windows Linux has a powerful booster in the never-ending debate over what OS is safest from malware and spyware: Dell. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Studying the Role of Microsoft and Novell Microsoft Canada has a case study out on a Proof of Concept (POC) they did with Novell for a client. Essentially, Microsoft and Novell teamed up to do a POC with Hyper-V and SuSE Linux. Read More Microsoft "all in" the cloud, customers not as much Microsoft's chief cloud evangelist -- after Mr. Ballmer, of course -- is probably Tim O'Brien, senior director of the Platform Strategy Group at the company. While he preached the "we're all in" gospel at yet another cloud conference Monday, O'Brien acknowledged there are some nonbelievers in the congregation. Read More One argument for Office 2010 you might not have considered First thing this morning, I threw a lawn chair in the car and headed out to my local big box retailer, prepared to sit in line waiting for the doors to open so I could make sure I could get hold of Microsoft Office 2010. Alas, that was all unnecessary as an ample supply of the shrink-wrapped software was on inconspicuous display on a shelf near the back of the store. Read More Cloud Leadership Forum is progress report on cloud computing The intense interest surrounding cloud computing has put the Cloud Leadership Forum into an interesting position. This conference is produced by IDC and Network World's parent company, IDG Enterprise. Taken together, the sessions paint a picture of where major companies are with their cloud computing deployments, and they have yielded best practices that you can use in your own organization. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. End of life for CSA? That's okay! Earlier this week, Cisco announced its intentions to end-of-life the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) at the end of the year. Cisco will continue to support CSA for another 3 years but it won't enhance the product any longer. Read More Four critical US cybersecurity projects that need constant pressure When it comes to our nation's information systems and cyber infrastructures, the hackers never stop trying to smash it and the government should never stop trying to protect it. Read More The one kind of open source, and the other kind Open source tends to get thrown into one generalized category. But not all open source software is created equal. There are, in fact, two distinctly different flavors and they behave quite differently. a) company first, project secondb) project first, company second So which kind is superior? Read More Is the U.S. prepared for cyber war or are we sitting ducks? Before I say anything at all, please eyeball this quote from 60 Minutes by Admiral Mike McConnell, previously chief of national intelligence who oversaw CIA, DIA, and NSA, regarding the cyber terrorism and the US electricity infrastructure. Read More Smartphones - will Microsoft pull it off? This week Network World chronicles the history of smartphones, beginning with the IBM Simon in 1993 (I learned something new!). Sadly, of the 9 phones displayed in the slideshow, not a single Windows Mobile phone made the list. Read More
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