The Internet of Things is exploding, but even faster than its rate of growth is the rate of known exploits. Manufacturers have built devices with little or no regard to security best practices and this is leaving customers and consumers exposed.
Category Archives: Cloud
SD-WAN: Driving Business Benefits
Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is changing the technology landscape, but more importantly, SD-WAN is having a real impact on the business side of the equation. SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak is recognized for the WAN expertise and driving the clear business benefits with SD-WAN.
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IoT, Mobility, And SDN Are Changing Your Network, Are You Ready?
There is plenty afoot in the datacenter that is impacting networks, but the drive for new network technologies will not come from hardware or even networking software. True change will be driven by the applications that need a different network to support massive data needs.
Can Broadband Change the WAN?
For years, wide area networks (WANs) were based on multi protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, but MPLS is very expensive and less flexible. A new generation of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products are adding broadband to create hybrid WANs. Silver Peak is one of the leaders in this space.
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Spring 2015 ONUG Meeting Highlights
A summary of the various meetings and discussions from the Spring 2105 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) where user needs flow into use cases that are shared with vendors who are delivering open networking products.
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HP’s Vision for Tomorrow’s IT
HP has a vision for the future of the data center and that vision centers around the concept of Compute. Compute will drive everything, but most importantly Compute is flexible and can scale with business needs.
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Bringing Intelligence to the Cloud Edge
As more data is being collected at the edge, the need for processing in place is growing as networks simply cannot handle the deluge. In this environment, ARM has the performance and low power CPUs that make processing at the edge a more reasonable proposition.
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Highlights of the Fall 2014 ONUG Meeting
Twice a year, the Open Networking User Group convenes to discuss needs, use cases and the future of networking. These meetings are especially candid and provide a great source of customer input for networking vendors.
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High Availability For Private Clouds
Because private clouds are typically run on-premises, alongside traditional IT applications, businesses expect resiliency and reliability. OpenStack does not have those capabilities out of the box but Stratus can bring high availability to OpenStack.
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Pay Attention IT: A New Convergence is Afoot
Convergence is being driven by business needs – the idea that IT can live in stove pipes, content with their different domains is a fallacy that cannot last. Cisco sees a converged future for servers, networking and storage as the market shifts towards application centricity.
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