Friday, January 27, 2012

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: Solid State Disk's True Cost
ALSO SEE: Symantec: Users Should Disable PCAnywhere Now
ANALYTIC REPORT: Cloud SLAs: Don't Sign On The Dotted Line Until You Read This!
WHITE PAPER: Top 10 Best Practices for Windows Server Backup on Virtual and Physical Servers
MOST POPULAR: 5 Innovations IBM Says Will Change Your Life
BLOG: VMware Simplifies, Automates Virtual/Cloud Management
WEBCAST: Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance
RESOURCES: We're Accepting Nominations For The InformationWeek 500

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NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, January 27, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
Solid State Disk's True Cost
IT pros focus on SSD's hefty startup costs, but you must consider other costs when evaluating the storage technology.

ALSO SEE
Symantec: Users Should Disable PCAnywhere Now
Symantec moves into damage-control mode after LulzSec leader tweets the remote-access software may be used to launch exploits.

VMware Vs. The Old School: Data Center Management Battle
With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than traditional management tool vendors can.

Desktop Virtualization Projects: Network Latency Can Kill
VMware users cite latency problems, though they are solvable.

Virsto Boosts Storage Performance For vSphere, Hyper-V Users
Virsto Software extends the reach of its storage virtualization product to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 environments. The tool eliminates storage performance bottlenecks.

Splunk Answers Business Demand For Big Data Analysis
Real-time IT tool for tracking log files, clickstreams, and message queues finds a second (more valuable) use answering business questions.

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ANALYTIC REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
Cloud SLAs: Don't Sign On The Dotted Line Until You Read This!
As enterprises ramp up cloud adoption, service-level agreements play a major role in ensuring quality enterprise application performance. Follow our four-step process to ensure providers live up to their end of the deal.
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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Top 10 Best Practices for Windows Server Backup on Virtual and Physical Servers
In this white paper, Don Jones, world renowned author, speaker and Microsoft MVP shares the top 10 best practices for protecting Windows Servers in both virtual and physical environments.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
5 Innovations IBM Says Will Change Your Life
Mind-reading PCs, people-powered generators, and an end to passwords could all become realities within the next five years, according to Big Blue.

Megaupload Closure Forces Cloud Storage Questions
In the wake of Megaupload, security experts warn businesses that rely on cyberlockers to include service loss in their disaster and continuity planning.

Microsoft Xbox 720 Details Trickle Out?
Microsoft's upcoming entertainment and cloud services platform console could run seven times faster and dish up Blu-Ray. But gamers may not like rumored restrictions.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured  Blogger VMware Simplifies, Automates Virtual/Cloud Management
By Chris Talbot
VMware is expanding its management portfolio with vCenter Operations Management Suite by integrating with VMware vCenter Capacity IQ and VMware vCenter Configuration Manager for improved performance, capacity and configuration management. VMware revamped its virtualization management suite last October adding the VMware vFabric Application Management and VMware IT Business Management tools. The new enhancements focuse on embedding and integrating management tools into the platform streamlining processes and applying analytics so customers can achieve better economics with their cloud computing deployments.

Enterasys Addresses Wired-Wireless Pain
By Robert Mullins
Network equipment vendor Enterasys is tackling the growing problem of managing wired and wireless devices with the latest addition to its suite of fabric network management technology, the OneFabric Edge Architecture. The combined wired-wireless management fabric relieves a number of network management headaches, especially in situations where the wired network is often managed by one vendor and the wireless network by another, says the company.

Sourcefire Uses Big Data Analytics To Stop Malware
By Robert Mullins
Cyber security vendor Sourcefire's latest product uses big data analytics methods to search data to discover patterns in malware attacks and intervene to stop them. The release of FireAMP comes the same week that Cisco Systems released its 4Q11 Global Threat Report that details how pervasive the malware threat is to networks. Cisco reports that in the fourth quarter, enterprise users experienced an average of 339 web malware encounters per month and for all of 2011, the average was 362 per month. Cisco also reports that 20,141 unique web malware hosts were encountered per month in 2011, up from 14,217 in 2010.

 

WEBCASTS:

Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance
Join Gary Angel, president and CTO of Semphonic, as he details how you can identify the real factors driving online performance and determine the best way to improve results -- with robust, fast data analysis. It happens January 31, 2012.
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
We're Accepting Nominations For The InformationWeek 500
Nominate your company for the 2012 InformationWeek 500 -- our 24rd annual ranking of the nation's very best business technology innovators. Organizations with $250 million or more in revenue may apply now!
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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