Thursday, March 31, 2011

SLA? Don't forget FRF.13

Google gigabit network going to Kansas City | Telcos advise EU regulators on fiber networks rollout

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SLA? Don't forget FRF.13
One of the most important and most often-discussed aspects of ensuring that you have a robust infrastructure is making sure there is an appropriate accompanying Service Level Agreement (SLA). And in a recent newsletter, we discussed the fact that adding cloud-based services to transmission services that are already dynamically shared can make any service "guarantees" difficult to define and to enforce quite a challenge. Read More


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Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free
Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point

Equalizer approved for Load Balancing
Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More

Google gigabit network going to Kansas City
Kansas City is the lucky winner of a 1Gbit-per-second broadband network that Google plans to build. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality
Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now!

Telcos advise EU regulators on fiber networks rollout
European regulators should focus on making the economics work for fiber roll-out and avoid political deals with dominant firms, say telecommunications companies. Read More


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10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do
As the leader and pioneer of the next-generation firewall category, Palo Alto Networks would like to share what we have learned from securing over 3,500 enterprise networks in the past few years. Download our guide that depicts the top 10 requirements you should demand in your next firewall purchase. Read now!

Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds
Only about a third of more than 1,000 respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players. Read More

Free Android Apps: 11 Great Utilities for Your Google Phone
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