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  • From packet inspectors to WAN optimisers, network add-ons are all the rage

    These days, it seems like a dozen new network "extras" - including traffic monitors, packet inspection technologies and management products, to name just a few - are launched every week, all advertising large-scale gains in performance, security and ease of use.

  • Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

    Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?

  • Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

    As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.

  • The pros and cons of using virtual desktop infrastructure

    Many organisations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their desktop PCs, either because migration typically requires costly hardware upgrades, time-consuming transfers of settings, and user retraining, or because there?s simply no compelling reason to move users to a new OS and the new application software that goes along with it. In some cases, both justifications apply.

  • The next frontier in virtualisation

    Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.

  • How mobile, BYOD and younger workers are reinventing IT

    IT departments and the duties of their staff haven't changed much in recent years. But the rise of mobile, the bring-your-own-device trend and a new generation of workers is about to change all that.

  • Juniper sticks to strengths with cloud strategy

    Juniper has a three-pronged cloud strategy that includes selling networking gear in the data centres of most major IaaS players, providing secure connections between virtual data centres and cloud customers, and orchestrating how virtualised resources get allocated to cloud application services.

  • Will 2012 be the year of the cyberwar?

    Much has been made of prospects for a cyberwar. Many believe we're already in one. So what are security practitioners to do as they plan for 2012?

  • High-speed Ethernet planning guide

    Standards-based 40- and 100-gigabit Ethernet switches and routers are starting to show up in enterprise networks, following ratification of the IEEE 802.3ba specification in mid-2010.

  • Getting the most out of flash storage

    Over the past few years mainstream enterprises have been turning to NAND flash storage to boost speed and decrease latency, but some vendors still produce products that inhibit customers from achieving flash's full potential.





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