When bad things happen to good apps, Part 1

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	When bad things happen to good apps, Part 1 There are fewer disappointments worse than getting hooked on a piece of software and then, with one revision, seeing everything go wrong. Microsoft did that to us last year with Windows 8, and in 2013, I'd say Tune-Up Media takes the prize for the most fouled-up software of the year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More In this Issue 2014 tech industry conferences and events for enterprise network pros Wireless: Is Radical Innovation Still Possible? Privacy plays an important part in cloud predictions for 2014 Enterprise Organizations Identify Incident Detection Weaknesses Security Threat Landscape: Predictions for 2014 IBM: Smart machines set to rule the world Looking for Access? Try the iPass Hotspot Finder Help make DevOps better Bruce Schneier leaving 'security futurologist' position at telco employer BT Inside Dropbox's plans for enterprise domination Addressing advanced malware in 2014 WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Why your existing solution might not be adequate To meet the demands of today's business landscape, IT staffs must take steps to secure and integrate their information assets, while satisfying compliance mandates and optimizing corporate efficiency. This white paper presents managed file transfer (MFT) as a way to meet corporate information and data management requirements. Read More 2014 tech industry conferences and events for enterprise network pros I've begun cobbling together a running timeline of conferences and events of interest to enterprise network pros (with a bit of consumer stuff tossed in, too). Feel free to touch base regarding events I'm missing here. (I'm using Knight Lab's timeline tool, by the way, to create this timeline) Read More Wireless: Is Radical Innovation Still Possible? I spoke this week with a senior executive of wireless technology startup MagnaCom a company that made some pretty impressive claims with their announcement of Wave Modulation, or WAM. Among those claims are that WAM offers an additional 10 dB of processing gain over 4096QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), a high-end version (802.11ac, for example, uses only 256QAM) of the current standard of modulation... Read More Privacy plays an important part in cloud predictions for 2014 Privacy plays a major role when it comes to 2014 cybersecurity predictions for the cloud. 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 Enterprise Organizations Identify Incident Detection Weaknesses In the past, many large organizations spent about 70% of their security budgets on prevention and the remaining 30% on incident detection and response. Prevention is still important but given the insidious threat landscape, enterprises must assume that they will be breached. This means that they need the right processes, skills, and security analytics to detect and respond to security incidents effectively,... Read More Security Threat Landscape: Predictions for 2014 Welcome to another edition of "Security Threat Landscape", a joint production between Network World and Fortinet. Keith Shaw and Derek Manky discuss some of the latest security threats via this monthly video podcast. This month, Derek rolls out some of his security predictions for 2014. Read More IBM: Smart machines set to rule the world IBM today took the wraps off of its eight annual "IBM 5 in 5" appraisal of the key technologies that could change high-tech life in the coming five years. Perhaps not surprisingly Big Blue this year says future tech developments will revolve around cognitive or smart learning systems that will learn, reason and involve human interaction like never before. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More Looking for Access? Try the iPass Hotspot Finder I've been playing with Hotspot Finder from iPass, which, as you might already be guessing, helps users find iPass' APs, which the company bills as the world's largest commercial Wi-Fi network. Read More Help make DevOps better DevOps is an area where people still spend a decent amount of time wrapping their head around exactly what it means, what it does and who does it. I personally don't think it is all that mysterious, but it is always good to find our more. Puppet Labs last year conducted a survey that drew over 4,000 respondents. Read More Bruce Schneier leaving 'security futurologist' position at telco employer BT What does the future hold for security and privacy expert Bruce Schneier after parting ways with the UK telecommunications company BT Group? It's where Schneier was employed for eight years as a security futurologist. Schneier said of his future plans: "Answer cloudy, ask again later." Read More Inside Dropbox's plans for enterprise domination Last week, Dropbox announced a deal calling for Dell's global sales team to sell its Dropbox for Business cloud-based storage and file-sharing services, with or without Dell Data Protection encryption, and for Dell to pre-install Dropbox on all its PC and tablets. Read More Addressing advanced malware in 2014 In the cybersecurity annals of the future, 2013 may be remembered as the year of advanced malware. Yes, I know that malware is nothing new and the term "advanced" is more hype than reality as a lot of attacks have involved little more than social engineering and off-the-shelf exploits. That said, I think it's safe to say that this is the year that the world really woke up to malware dangers... Read More
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