Arguing (or not) over WPA2 and Wi-Fi security

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	Arguing (or not) over WPA2 and Wi-Fi security When I was growing up, our front door and back door were never locked. Was that a vulnerability? Did it create an attack vector? Were we at risk? Read More DOWNLOAD: Brocade 802.11n and Higher Education WLAN Opportunities The introduction of 802.11n provides a holistic opportunity for universities to upgrade the network edge. Discover how higher education institutions can: * Maximize the value of their wireless networks. * Significantly reduce CapEx and OpEx. * Remain confident in their wireless LAN performance, security and reliability Read more! In this Issue Microsoft: Gmail like a Jaguar with 'vinyl seats' Are you as tired of lazy vendors as I am? How Does Your ISP Rate? Why OpenStack matters to the rest of us It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels Facebook, nannying, and objectives What's in a License? Shimel's 10 Commandments For Open Core WHITE PAPER: HP Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now Microsoft: Gmail like a Jaguar with 'vinyl seats' Turner showed his audience of analysts for various investment firms an ad in Business Week magazine of Google's "Gone Google" campaign boasting how the luxury car and SUV makers Jaguar and Land Rover had converted to Google Mail, presumably from Microsoft Exchange. Then Turner showed quotes from a Business Week article of employees of those firms, including this: "It's funny. At Jaguar and Land Rover, we sell ourselves as best-of-breed, but we install the IT equivalent of vinyl seats." Zing! Read More Are you as tired of lazy vendors as I am? Dealing with vendors can be maddening to say the least. One of the reasons is because whenever you find a problem with their DB code they're very reluctant to change it. And to a degree I understand that because they've got regression testing to do to make sure it doesn't break anything else, but very seldom do vendors bother updating their DB code at all. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Implementing Tiered Storage: IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now How Does Your ISP Rate? Like politics, all Internet performance is local. Given this axiom, we bear excellent news for folks interested in tracking last mile ISP performance. For the first time, you can get up-to-date Internet performance statistics by state, by city, and by ISP -- as well as by country of course. This data is great for regional, head-to-head, ISP comparisons. Read More Why OpenStack matters to the rest of us RackSpace's well-coordinated public announcement of OpenStack last week was a refreshing, if not surprising, bit of news. Since the open source movement gained momentum, there has regularly been a viable free alternative in most important software sectors. The industry was just begging for an honest-to-goodness open source presence in the IaaS space, and OpenStack seems prepared to deliver. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels I wrote a blog two years ago about how I could fix anything with a tunnel. Yes, it was a tad tongue in cheek, but it also had some truth to it. Tunnels are a weapon to use when faced with a difficult network design issue. However, as with any weapon, there can be collateral damage. Read More Facebook, nannying, and objectives Gibbs ponders the problems with employees and social networking and suggests that nannying won't cut it. Read More What's in a License? Most people never take the time to read an End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) when installing or updating their software. For example, here is a link to the Microsoft Vista EULA that you probably skipped right over and a great article on how the EULA prevents people from using their purchased Windows operating system the way they wish. Read More Shimel's 10 Commandments For Open Core There has been a lot of discussion recently over so called "open core" business models. Many people don't like the term, but the underlying principles whether called commercial open source, open core or something else are still valid. Here are my 10 Commandments for a successful open core / commercial open source business. Read More
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