10 things you may not know about Ethernet

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	10 things you may not know about Ethernet Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here. Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Redefining Performance Management Video See Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Assoc., Doug Roberts, Managing Director of Product Strategy, and Bruce Kosbab, CTO, Fluke Networks discussing how TruView redefines enterprise performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Learn More In this Issue What's next for Ethernet? How to prevent IT department overload IT's new concern: The personal cloud The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety Ten jobs robots won't take away from you in the next 10 years The devious art of cell tower camouflage Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law Why don't risk management programs work? Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for reported $1.1 billion WEBCAST: F5 Networks Making VMware View Mobile Access Secure and Fast Watch the video to see how F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. Learn More What's next for Ethernet? Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research. Read More How to prevent IT department overload Managing the flow of an infinite supply of worthwhile projects through a finite IT operation takes finesse. Here's how to avoid the backlog and the chaos. Read More IT's new concern: The personal cloud As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Enterprises Need Hybrid SSO Solutions This paper from Enterprise Strategy Group describes the user management challenges posed by SaaS applications and strategies for addressing them. Read Now The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets. Read More Ten jobs robots won't take away from you in the next 10 years There are jobs that robots might be able to do in the near future. Gibbs has ten that they're unlikely to steal from meat machines. Read More The devious art of cell tower camouflage Disguising cellphone towers in the U.S. and other locations around the world has become sort of an art form. The unsightly towers have been hidden in church steeples, flagpoles, silos and other large edifices. Here, Reuters recently took a look at the use of different types of trees used to hide the masts. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Practices for Success This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but the challenge of keeping up with it is growing as chips get smaller, says a company executive. Read More Why don't risk management programs work? When the moderator of a panel discussion at the recent RSA conference asked the audience how many thought their risk management programs were successful, only a handful raised their hands. So Network World Editor in Chief John Dix asked two of the experts on that panel to hash out in an email exchange why these programs don't tend to work. Read More Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier. Read More Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for reported $1.1 billion Since taking over the CEO reins at Yahoo, Marissa Mayer has been on an absolute mission to transform Yahoo from a has-been back into a relevant tech company once again. Read More
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