Monday, May 13, 2013

Sun's stars: Where are they now?

100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs

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May 13, 2013
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Issue highlights

1. 100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

2. An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs

3. Products of the week 5.13.13

4. Understanding Software Defined Networking

5. An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs

6. 100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

7. Samsung takes first 5G steps with advanced antenna

8. Top vendors at Interop 2013

9. Will entering your ATM PIN in reverse summon the police?

10. Comedian Rob Schneider stars as Google Docs in Microsoft Office 365 videos

11. I gave away my iPhone for a Galaxy S4

12. INSIDER Block rogue apps with Windows Server -- for free

13. The proper care and feeding of SSD storage

14. Smartphones driving violent crime across US

WHITE PAPER: Raritan Inc

The Distributed Enterprise: Remote Access and IT Management

This white paper examines and analyzes the increases in uptime and security provided by out-of-band access and control tools. Learn More

100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

Unlike Juniper core switching customers, HP users can still expect some significant upgrades to their older switches even though HP unveiled two new platforms for the data center last week. HP plans to equip the four-year-old 12500 data center core switch with 40G Ethernet before the end of the year. READ MORE

An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs

During a recent interview with 60 MInutes' Charlie Rose, Bill Gates talked rather emotionally about his last meeting with longtime rival Steve Jobs. The pair's last meeting occurred in Jobs' home in May of 2011. READ MORE

Products of the week 5.13.13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Sophos and Malwarebytes READ MORE

Understanding Software Defined Networking

If you aren't intimately familiar with Software Defined Networking, don't fret. Only 10% of 450 IT practitioners at a recent Network World event raised their hands when asked if they understand SDN. But if the emerging technology lives up to its promise to redefine networking as we know it, there is no time like the present to dig in and learn more. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Enabling Ubiquitous Visibility in Virtualized Environments

Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization for dynamic service delivery and service management agility. IT challenges already exist in virtual environments and will only be exacerbated with the higher adoption of virtualization. Learn More

An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs

During a recent interview with 60 MInutes' Charlie Rose, Bill Gates talked rather emotionally about his last meeting with longtime rival Steve Jobs. The pair's last meeting occurred in Jobs' home in May of 2011. READ MORE

100G, SDN leaving older switches behind

Unlike Juniper core switching customers, HP users can still expect some significant upgrades to their older switches even though HP unveiled two new platforms for the data center last week. HP plans to equip the four-year-old 12500 data center core switch with 40G Ethernet before the end of the year. READ MORE

Samsung takes first 5G steps with advanced antenna

Samsung Electronics plans to use advanced antennas to boost the bandwidth in mobile networks by what it said was "several tens of Gbps per base station", but the improved bandwidth won't be commercially available until 2020. READ MORE

Top vendors at Interop 2013

There's a Katy Perry Song called "Waking Up in Vegas" in which the young Miss Perry sings "Shut up and put your money where your mouth is / that's what you get for waking up in Vegas." That first line, "Shut up and put your money where your mouth is," should be the theme for Interop. Vendors all across the network market come to Mandalay Bay to show off their latest products and impress buyers,... READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

On the Fast Track to Data

The ongoing data explosion puts organizations in a unique situation. Not only do they operate in a world where information is power, the number of sources and volume of relevant data continues to multiply at unprecedented levels. Read Now!

Will entering your ATM PIN in reverse summon the police?

Before escaping his captors on foot, the man who was carjacked by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was forced at gunpoint to withdraw money from an ATM. Had he possessed the knowledge and presence of mind to enter his PIN in reverse, some believe, the machine would have automatically notified the police that he was doing so under duress and officers would have been dispatched. READ MORE

Comedian Rob Schneider stars as Google Docs in Microsoft Office 365 videos

Microsoft showed that it does have a sense of humor. READ MORE

I gave away my iPhone for a Galaxy S4

I have used a jailbroken iPhone as my primary cell phone for a long time. I think since the iPhone 3G if I am not mistaken. While my tablet runs Android and I run Windows and Linux on my computers, I have been a solid iPhone user. Truthfully I wasn't planning on switching off the iPhone anytime soon either. READ MORE

INSIDER

Block rogue apps with Windows Server -- for free

It is a lot of work to set up policies; it takes trial and some error, too. But the payoffs are huge. READ MORE

The proper care and feeding of SSD storage

Your solid-state drive sits there in silence. It's sleek. Elegant. More than a little mysterious.The hard drive it replaced was easy to understand: A soft hum assured you that its platters were spinning. A quiet mechanical click informed you of its read/write operations. You'd groom it with the occasional defrag. Times were good. READ MORE

Smartphones driving violent crime across US

On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Tripwire

So Much Data, So Little Control

It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More

SLIDESHOWS

Sun's stars: Where are they now?

One of the brightest lights in Silicon Valley for more than two decades.

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