What I’m Learning about Mobile Computing Security Best Practices

	Run from Daylight | Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS
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	What I'm Learning about Mobile Computing Security Best Practices When I started my career at EMC in 1987, the company ran the business on Prime Computers. I was able to convince my boss that I could improve the quality and efficiency of our group's business reports with a PC, so the company purchased a Macintosh computer and printer for me to use. This may have made me the first PC user in EMC history though I can't be sure. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation Extend network runtime and protect critical equipment Eaton's innovative software and our efficient, reliable UPS lets you view and manage your entire system from one console. Move VMs, view the power supporting your virtual network and, if necessary, perform a graceful shutdown. Learn More In this Issue Run from Daylight Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS Sorting out the Juniper data center switching puzzle Is the Mac Doomed? Cisco, IBM on the defensive with OpenDaylight WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Easing the Online Overload Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now! Run from Daylight Once word started to spread among the vendor community about the OpenDaylight SDN project before it was announced, Dell decided to initiate its own SDN standards effort within the Object Management Group. That effort, an SDN working committee within the OMG, now has about 20 other participants, said Tom Burns, vice president and general manager of Dell Networking. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper) Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required For administrators seeking to increase performance in their virtual environment without investing in more hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads. Read more. Read Now! Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS If you're responsible for a serious enterprise WAN, do you need MPLS? Until recently, the answer to this question for almost all larger enterprises, many mid-sized and some smaller ones as well, was a resounding yes. Thanks to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, the answer going forward is: probably not. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Public or Private Cloud: The Choice is Yours The debate between deploying either public or private cloud services has remained to be a major worry & source of confusion among IT managers. This paper helps to define & differentiate between private & public cloud services in order to make a well-informed decision on which service to implement. Read Now Sorting out the Juniper data center switching puzzle Last week, the esteemed Jim Duffy wrote this news article covering the release of the Juniper EX9200 data center switch. The article left many questions in my mind, including when should customers buy an 8200 now? What about QFabric? What types of customers are right for the beefiness of a product like the 9200? I had a chance to talk to Juniper about the product and I thought I'd clear up some questions... Read More Is the Mac Doomed? OK, this is just plain nuts, but occasionally such are the thoughts of analysts who, after all, are at least partially in the business of synthesizing such scenarios from pieces of disparate data. And this isn't a prediction, at least not yet. I'm a Mac user at least in part because of the stability of the MacOS platform, and, while I won't ever go back to Windows (although the nightmares do seem to... Read More Cisco, IBM on the defensive with OpenDaylight You know, the more you consider the strategic importance of the OpenDaylight project to the vendors involved, the more it becomes apparent: Daylight is defensively strategic to those who seek to marginalize the impact of SDNs in general, and of OpenFlow in particular. Read More
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