Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Testing Lenovo's new ThinkServer: Low price, many options

  Business users bypass IT and go rogue to the cloud | Healthcare provider finds SDN is the proper Rx

 
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Testing Lenovo's new ThinkServer: Low price, many options
We tested the Lenovo RD440 as a base-unit, 2U server. We found it pretty generic on the surface, but options, including software pre-loads, increase its potential utility for volume users and especially smaller operations. Read More
 




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It's Time to Refresh Your Data Center
In this Whitepaper, we'll take a close look at how Cisco® Unified Computing System (UCS®) with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors is revolutionizing the way businesses store and access information. Learn More

Business users bypass IT and go rogue to the cloud
IT departments need to watch out for business units or even individual workers going rogue and bypassing IT to go straight to the cloud. Read More
 

Healthcare provider finds SDN is the proper Rx
William Hanna, vice president of technical services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), went out looking for a way to add capacity to a backup network and found what he wanted in Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools from Alcatel-Lucent. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix sat down with Hanna to learn about the process and experience. Read More
 


WHITE PAPER: Panduit Corp.
 
Cloud-Enabled Data Center Infrastructure
Cloud-Based Delivery of IT infrastructure and Applications is radically changing the way businesses buy and use technology. But the cloud won't deliver full value to providers and users unless close attention is paid to physical infrastructure in the cloud data center. Learn More

Cisco Live lives it up at 25
It started with a sobering declaration and ended with what for some was an inebriating party. Read More
 

Is Cisco Back (as an enterprise security leader)?
It wasn't too long ago that Cisco was a dominant force in information security technology. The company was a market leader in firewalls, IDS/IPS, and email security and was actively pushing products for endpoint security and SIEM as well as security "blades" for Catalyst switches. Heck, Cisco even articulated a bold vision of "self-defending networks" with security policy, enforcement, and intelligence... Read More
 


WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments

Survival Tips for Big Data's Impact on Network Performance
Big Data projects slam network performance. This paper offer survival tips to prepare your network before the Big Data projects hit, not after. Learn how to monitor and manage network performance for bandwidth, consistent low latency, scalable storage, processing power and security. Learn More

How to Do Big Data in Healthcare
Many healthcare organizations like to talk about data analytics. However, here are eight pieces of expert advice to help you actually do it. Read More
 

Using math and crowdsourcing to camouflage 'eyesores'
Researchers at MIT are leading an effort to use algorithms and crowdsourcing to create customized camouflage that someday will conceal public eyesores such as electrical boxes and air conditioning units. Among the challenges to be overcome is creating camouflage that does the trick when viewed from different vantage points and in different light conditions. In a second you'll see some examples and... Read More
 

In prison for selling pirated movies, he's shown pirated movies

When Richard Humphrey says movies being shown by guards to inmates in an Ohio prison were illegally obtained, he can be considered a reasonably reliable source: Humphrey is serving a 29-month sentence for selling pirated movies. From a story on Cleveland.com: Read More
 

 

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