Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

	Mobile Device Security Reality | Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative.
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	Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy The U.S. broadband infrastructure is a monopolistic mess Read More WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Simplifying Network Management with Enterasys Read this whitepaper to learn about OneFabric from Enterasys. See how it can address the entire network infrastructure as a single system rather than addressing a network as many different parts and pieces. It is a modular, scalable system that can be implemented along with existing projects and budget cycles. Learn More. In this Issue Mobile Device Security Reality Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative. And now, the final nail in WiMAX's consumer handset coffin Hotel wireless not up to IETF standards, so ... Microsoft and Apache: When Pigs Fly WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices to Architect Applications in the IBM Cloud It's clear that cloud environments are a great way to deliver software—but what are the best ways to use it really well? Read this report to learn how to leverage cloud environments, design applications for successful cloud-based deployments and safeguard your virtual machines. Read Now Mobile Device Security Reality You've heard the same things I have: "You can't control mobile device proliferation." "Most large organizations are establishing BYOD problems." "You need to let new employees work with their own devices and use social networking sites if you want to recruit them." Poppycock, Rubbish, Nonsense, I say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Protecting Critical DNS Infrastructure: What You Should Know DNS is a critical Internet infrastructure as each web transaction involves a DNS service. An attack that disrupts these services will halt all other Internet-based services. Current infrastructure is vulnerable despite carrier and ISP protections. So what can you do to protect your business? Learn More Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative. Well, it looks as though Research in Motion has now officially entered the "fire-everyone-and-hope-for-the-best" phase. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie was the biggest head to roll today but he was hardly alone. Via Crackberry, here's the full scope of the carnage: Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essentials for Assuring Network and Application Performance As a network professional, it's not enough to be focused on network failures. You need to be able to assure network and application performance. Read this white paper to evaluate performance monitoring and management initiatives and eliminate blind spots. Learn More And now, the final nail in WiMAX's consumer handset coffin Back in the heady days of 2008, Sprint had a dream: It was going to level the playing field with rivals Verizon and AT&T by being the first carrier to deploy mobile WiMAX and thus deliver the fastest mobile Internet experience in the country. Read More Hotel wireless not up to IETF standards, so ... It's far and away the most-read story on our site today, so I wanted to make sure that you don't miss it. Writes my Network World colleague John Cox: What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded? They give it an Extreme Wi-Fi Makeover. Not only should the hotel managers be thankful for all the technical help,... Read More Microsoft and Apache: When Pigs Fly Big news today around Microsoft releasing even more software from its stack as open source. Specifically Microsoft is open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) all with contributions. Frankly, in and of itself I don't think this is such big news. Read More
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