The Good and Bad of Wireless

Wireless technology has transformed the world of computer networks, but progress is in the eye of the beholder.  Take wireless network hacking drones, for example. Probably a good thing for the owners of the drones. For everyone else, not so clear.

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us The Good and Bad of Wireless Wireless technology has transformed the world of computer networks, but progress is in the eye of the beholder.  Take wireless network hacking drones, for example. Probably a good thing for the owners of the drones. For everyone else, not so clear. Bradley Mitchell Wireless/Networking Expert Guide to Wireless Network Protocols   People sometimes refer to wireless networking as “Wi-Fi” even when the network uses a totally unrelated kind of wireless technology. While it might seem ideal that all of the world’s wireless devices should use one common network protocol such as Wi-Fi, today’s networks support a wide variety of different protocols instead. The reason: No one protocol in existence provides an optimal solution for all of the different wireless usages people want.   READ NOW Introduction to Making Wireless Network Connections   Laptops, smartphones, tablets and various other consumer devices support wireless communication technology that's becoming essential in today's information society. Learn how to make the three basic kinds of wireless connections, via peer-to-peer, router, and hotspot networking. READ NOW Useful Facts About How Wi-Fi Works   Wireless is a more modern alternative to traditional wired networking that relies on cables to connect network-able devices together. Wireless technologies based on Wi-Fi are widely used in both home and business computer networks. READ NOW Reasons Why Wi-Fi Connections Drop   On home or public wireless networks, your Wi-Fi connection might drop unexpectedly for no obvious reason. This kind of networking problem is especially frustrating. It's also more common than you might think. Fortunately, solutions exist. Consult this checklist to determine why it is happening and how to prevent it. READ NOW Featured Articles • A growing list! 3D Printers Under $1,000 Fully Assembled • Find the Best Accounting Software for Your Small Business Advertisement About Wireless/Networking  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Wireless/Networking newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.

How Amazon Web Services can prevent repeating its recent outage

	How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed | 3 cloud industry groups announced this week. How do they affect each other?
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	How Amazon Web Services can prevent repeating its recent outage The recent AWS outage exposed the dependence of countless enterprise applications on a few cloud components. Nick Kephart published a very good analysis here that explains how a route leak from data center provider Axcelx was responsible for this incident. This is not a new problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tealium Build Your Own Marketing Cloud Download our free guidebook, "Build Your Own Marketing Cloud™," to learn how to maximize your technology investments and drive superior cross-channel experiences. Learn more In this Issue How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed 3 cloud industry groups announced this week. How do they affect each other? Security researchers take aim at Roku streaming media players IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud Amazon posts a profit as AWS sales nearly double Google lures businesses to Nearline with 100 PB of free cloud storage The cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it Microsoft fixes crash-bug in Windows 10 just days before launch Cloud comics: Overwhelmed IT workers are rescued by cloud superheroes WHITE PAPER: IBM Leveraging the Cloud for Your Social Business Workloads Today, "social business" - a broad term that describes how social, mobile, and other technologies facilitate enhanced employee, customer, and partner engagement - has transformed the way we do business. Read this Frost & Sullivan whitepaper to learn why the cloud is one of the key reasons for this rapid transformation. Learn More How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed To find out how much CIOs at giant global companies really earn, we scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies and found 25 that disclosed CIO pay. Here are the details on their pay packages. Read More 3 cloud industry groups announced this week. How do they affect each other? Rackspace and Intel jointly announced the "OpenStack Innovation Center." OpenStack is, of course, the open source cloud operating system launched five or so years ago by Rackspace and NASA. Since then it has grown up and now has its own foundation, massive industry buy-in and robust, stable code. So what are these two vendors doing that will change anything? A Read More Security researchers take aim at Roku streaming media players If you are sick of your ever-increasing cable bill, have you considered becoming a cord cutter? If you spent a bundle on your TVs but they aren't smart TVs, you likely aren't planning to abandon them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Apprenda Enterprise Platform as a Service for App Architectures Apprenda is the only Enterprise PaaS on the market that supports both new and existing application architectures. In this whitepaper you'll learn how Apprenda supports your existing applications, how the applications are cloud enabled, and how they are on-boarded with Apprenda, using production customer examples. Learn More IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house. Read More Amazon posts a profit as AWS sales nearly double Cloud services continue to grow by leaps and bounds for Amazon.com. The company reported that Amazon Web Services generated $1.8 billion in sales in the second quarter, up about 80 percent from the $1 billion it brought in a year earlier. Read More Google lures businesses to Nearline with 100 PB of free cloud storage Google had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Moving Collaboration to the Cloud Join experts from IBM and companies just like yours for an informative webinar, "Moving Collaboration to the Cloud: Now is the Time!" Learn More The cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the software is complex and takes too long to deploy. Read More Microsoft fixes crash-bug in Windows 10 just days before launch Microsoft appears to have patched a bug in Windows 10 that caused a key part of the OS to crash for some testers just two days before launch. The bug caused Windows Explorer to crash when users tried to remove an application or disable an enabled network interface using the Control Panel. Read More Cloud comics: Overwhelmed IT workers are rescued by cloud superheroes In the competitive world of the cloud, it seems vendors are looking for creative ways to get some attention in a market dominated by heavy-hitters such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. So, cloud vendors including VMware and Sungard Availability Services have taken to comics to help tell their cloud story. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 14 fascinating facts about Apple's iPhone Eight years since its debut, Apple's iPhone has changed and conquered the smartphone market. Here are some interesting facts you might not know about the iPhone. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. EARLY ACCESS Q&A: New Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins heads into "hyper-connected" mode 2. iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Solar-powered and worried about looks 3. Don't count on getting your stolen idevice back with Apple's Find My iPhone 4. Security holes in the 3 most popular smart home hubs and Honeywell Tuxedo Touch 5. How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed 6. John Chambers' 10 most memorable quotes as Cisco CEO 7. Proposed solutions for fixing Reserve Windows 10 problems 8. 19 free cloud storage options 9. Cisco kills Invicta storage product line 10. Reserve your free Windows 10 upgrade, download available on July 29
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Silver Peak CEO: We're re-imagining the WAN for a cloud world

	Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers | IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud
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	Silver Peak CEO: We're re-imagining the WAN for a cloud world Silver Peak, Inc., made its name as a top provider of wide-area network optimization capabilities. But the company has its sights set on a loftier goal today: Completely changing the way you build your entire WAN. Silver Peak is moving rapidly to support so-called software-defined WANs, which make it easier and cheaper to connect branches and end users to cloud applications. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimizing Application Traffic on MPLS WAN Links MPLS is a common type of service offering that removes much of the cost and complexity of more traditional point-to-point networks. The change from point-to-point to any-to-any or cloud networking presents new application delivery challenges, requiring a response from services that depend on the packet delivery infrastructure. Learn more >> In this Issue Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud The Windows 10 upgrade: Who should do it, who could wait New products of the week 07.27.2015 How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed WHITE PAPER: IBM Secrets to Better Engage the Mobile Consumer Customer behaviors and expectations are rapidly evolving, so businesses must track and understand these changes in order to succed in customer experience management (CEM) initiatives. This report outlines how marketers maximize CEM program results by delivering targeted push notifications to customers' mobile devices. Learn More Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers IBM is one of the latest traditional technology behemoths to see design as a key differentiator in enterprise software. In a session at last week's Cultivate Conference (co-located with the influential open-source OSCON event in Portland), IBM's General Manager of Design (apparently a real position) Phil Gilbert told attendees about Big Blue's attempt to create a "culture of design" at the 130-year-old company.Beyond "Big Blue" "We want to bring design to everything we do," Gilbert said, which means changing the people, practices, and places involved in creating software. To help make that happen, he added, the company is committed to hiring 1,000 formally trained designers in the next six years.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: KnowBe4 Your Money or Your Files - A Short History Of Ransomware In this whitepaper you will learn about the skyrocketing ransomware infection rates, its history, ransomware families, cryptolocker and copycats, ransomware infection vectors and effective mitigation strategies. Learn more >> IBM launches its data warehouse service into the cloud   Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house."You used to have to go through a number of steps to get to the data. That is changing. People now want immediate access to the data," said Derek Schoettle[cq], IBM general manager for cloud data services.Available on the IBM Bluemix portal of platform services, the IBM DashDB Enterprise MPP (massive parallel processing) offers a fully managed data warehouse, potentially saving organizations the costs and hassles with setting up one in house.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: New Relic Monitoring Application Performance in Hybrid Clouds This white paper will help you understand how you can achieve end-to-end visibility into application performance no matter where your application or parts of your application are running. Learn more. The Windows 10 upgrade: Who should do it, who could wait The day is finally here: Windows 10's launch. And if you haven't been participating in Microsoft's Windows Insider previews, you have a single, simple question: Should I upgrade to Windows 10?For the long answer, be sure to tune into PCWorld's in-depth Windows 10 review. But if you're looking for the short version, here you go.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: What if Windows went open source tomorrow? Remember: Windows 10 is a free upgrade for current Windows 7 and Windows 8 users until July 29, 2016, after which you'll need to pay retail pricing if you want to make the switch. Once you install Windows 10 you'll keep getting updates for a long, long time—no subscription fees, no kill switches, despite what fearmongers may say.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   New products of the week 07.27.2015 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and CA. Read More   How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed Compensation for CIOs includes cash, equity, perks. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 14 fascinating facts about Apple's iPhone Eight years since its debut, Apple's iPhone has changed and conquered the smartphone market. Here are some interesting facts you might not know about the iPhone. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. EARLY ACCESS Q&A: New Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins heads into "hyper-connected" mode 2. iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Solar-powered and worried about looks 3. Don't count on getting your stolen idevice back with Apple's Find My iPhone 4. Security holes in the 3 most popular smart home hubs and Honeywell Tuxedo Touch 5. How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed 6. John Chambers' 10 most memorable quotes as Cisco CEO 7. Proposed solutions for fixing Reserve Windows 10 problems 8. 19 free cloud storage options 9. Cisco kills Invicta storage product line 10. Reserve your free Windows 10 upgrade, download available on July 29
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