Recent Articles
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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Alleviates Direct Access Headache
Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the shortcomings of the company’s new always-on remote connectivity solution, DirectAccess, providing sorely needed measures of performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility to help move DirectAccess beyond mere pilot projects to actual deployment on real networks. While Forefront UAG 2010 has its own…
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Virus Breach Thousands of Computers Globally
(Reuters) – A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness. The latest virus — known as "Kneber botnet" — gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and…
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Channel Gets Rebate on Brocade 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Looking to capitalize on the growth of server virtualization and infrastructure consolidation, Brocade has unveiled its Brocade FCX series of 10/100/1000M bps with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) uplink top-of-rack switches. The lineup offers price/performance value starting at $4,945 and available starting in April to help customers both reduce overhead costs and scale their networking…
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Virsto Tackles Storage Virtualization
VMware remains by far the market leader in server virtualization, and many VARs have told Channel Insider that they wouldn’t put production servers on anything else, even if their customers may be testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V somewhere in the enterprise. But storage virtualization startup Virsto is placing its initial bet on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based…
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Dell Tries to Explain Virtualization to End Customers
Image by Bill Ward’s Brickpile via Flickr Try to explain virtualization to the layperson, the office manager of a nearby physician practice or the CEO of a regional retail chain, and you may get that blank stare, deer-in-headlights look. You put all the servers onto one server? What? What good is that? And why didn’t…
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Trepidation in Moving to the Cloud
I’m thinking a lot about something I don’t have good answers to yet. I like to sit down and write something insightful, some meaningful thought that you can take forth. Today, I’m pondering questions that don’t have simple answers. As 2010 has gotten underway, the question of building business in a cloud world has taken…
