Friday, March 09, 2012

Inside Flat Networks | IaaS A Bad Deal

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: Inside Flat Networks
ALSO SEE: Why Infrastructure As A Service Is A Bad Deal
ANALYTIC REPORT: Fundamentals: Private Cloud Blueprint
WHITE PAPER: How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
MOST POPULAR: iPads Vs. Android: 3-Way Tablet Shootout
BLOG: Kaminario’s K2 Climbs the SSD Storage Performance Mountain
WEBCAST: Private PaaS For The Enterprise: Myth Or Reality?
RESOURCES: See You At Enterprise Connect

TechWeb
NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, March 09, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
Inside Flat Networks
New designs promise faster, more reliable networks, but use caution.

ALSO SEE
Why Infrastructure As A Service Is A Bad Deal
The numbers we cranked speak for themselves: IaaS services from Amazon and others most likely do a disservice to your bottom line.

Intel Xeon E5: Server Chips With Virtualization Secrets
Chips used to be all about clock speeds and shrinking circuit size. But Intel's newest chips for data center servers are all about networking, I/O, and data movement, in the age of virtualization.

How To Secure Your Flat Network
You don't have to trade control for a faster network architecture.

Microsoft Azure Outage Explanation Doesn't Soothe
Microsoft leader's post mortem on Azure cloud outage cites a human error factor, but leaves other questions unanswered. Does this remind you of how Amazon played its earlier lightning strike incident?

How To Evaluate Next-Generation Firewalls
A host of new network threat-protection products will be introduced at RSA, but not all firewalls are built the same.

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Also this issue: • Randy Mott named CIO of General Motors
• How Dell is pushing into the enterprise
• Eight key features in Windows 8


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REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
Fundamentals: Private Cloud Blueprint
From network and storage virtualization to automation and orchestration to promoting your private cloud services, our guide takes you through the essentials needed to build a private cloud.
DOWNLOAD NOW (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, the traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare. This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
iPads Vs. Android: 3-Way Tablet Shootout
Is Apple's new iPad, the iPad 2, or Asus' best Android tablet right for you? We do a detailed comparison of cost, features, design, and other key criteria.

8 Privacy Threats Worse Than Google
Google's privacy policy tweaks this week caused a fresh flurry of outrage. But Google should not be your top privacy worry.

Windows 8 Beta: Visual Tour
Take a closer look at Microsoft's radically revamped Windows 8 OS, out now in a consumer preview version. Here's the lowdown on features, apps, hardware, and more.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured Blogger Kaminario’s K2 Climbs the SSD Storage Performance Mountain
By David Hill
One of the most exciting development areas for the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industry is in the attempt to address the I/O gap challenge whereby servers are often frustrated in their attempts to read and write data as fast as they would like from traditional storage. Various approaches using solid state devices (SSD) are targeting the problem. To the attempts of innumerable smaller companies to address the I/O gap problem have been added efforts from large IT vendors, notably EMC with its VFCache and IBM with SSD caching for its XIV storage systems. The smaller vendors want to shout out: don’t forget about us. A number of those companies deserve attention and Kaminario is one that has a clear and solid vision that deserves to be heard.

Add Smarts To IT With Predictive Analytics
By Esther Shein
While adoption of predictive analytics systems is still relatively modest, the promise they hold--giving companies a quick and logical way to make use of unstructured or big data in order to provide preemptive warning of failure, among other things--is prompting vendors to embed the functionality in their larger management consoles and application performance management systems.

Taming Apple's Bonjour
By Lee H. Badman
By now we know that iPhones and iPads (and a few of those Android things) have infiltrated the enterprise, but much of Apple's approach to networking and inter-device functionality is still a bit...well, consumer-oriented, which has IT scrambling to deal with protocols which often conflict with enterprise IT's goals.

 

WEBCASTS:

Private PaaS For The Enterprise: Myth Or Reality?
This Cloud Connect webcast looks at the landscape and drivers for private platform as a service and issues for enterprises moving development resources to the cloud. It happens March 7.
More Information & Registration
Click here
 

RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
See You At Enterprise Connect
The Enterprise Connect conference program covers the full range of platforms, services, and applications that comprise modern communications and collaboration systems. Hear case studies from the leaders of major industry players like Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya, HP, NEC, IBM, and more! Register today with code IWKPREM to save $200 off a conference pass or get a free Expo Pass.
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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