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Yearly Archives: 2012
Reducing WAN Packets
Andy Gottlieb has a series of columns on Network World about how to prevent Wide-Area-Network (WAN) packet loss which can have enormous impact on application performance over the WAN. He provides six ideas to reduce packet loss: Reduce the number … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: Being Prepared for Hybrid Cloud
In the short term, organizations are not looking at achieving 100% external cloud adoption, but at the same time many organizations are seeing that 100% internal operation is not the right answer either in today’s challenging environment. Enter the hybrid … Continue reading
HDD versus SSD
Jeff Clark from The DataCenter Journal brings us his thoughts on when hard-disk drives (HDDs) may work better than solid-state drives (SSDs) and vice versa for your data storage solution. Mr. Clark cautions from jumping head first into replacing HDDs … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: SaaS & Legacy Apps
Chris Kanaracus reports on InfoWorld about Gartner’s research into how Software as a Service (SaaS) is trending in the current marketplace. According to Mr. Kanaracus’ article Gartner surveyed 592 respondents during June and July in the US, Asia-Pacific, Europe and … Continue reading
How to Create a “Human Firewall”
Linda Musthaler of Network World wrote recently about the best practices for creating your own “human firewall”. In other words, how to best educate workers about IT security risks and threats. A recent report shows that there is a real … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: Security Policies
What do your employees know about your cloud security policies? Do you offer formal training or have documentation? Petra Jorgenson recently wrote for IBM’s Midsize Insider blog that the development of cloud computing is a double-edge sword for small – … Continue reading
Reducing Time to Resolution
Interested in reducing your time-to-resolution (TTR)? Have you thought about your maximum time-to-resolution (MAX-TTR)? Tim Nichols reports for Network World about what attributes and tools are needed to reduce TTR in a 10Gbps world. First, change your frame-of-mind, Mr. Nichols … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: Growth in PaaS
Chris Kanaracus reports on Network World about recent findings from Gartner that Platform as a Service (PaaS) is expected to see a sharp rise in growth in the coming years. Here are the findings: In 2012, PaaS is expected to … Continue reading
Big Data and Your Business
Recently, Paul Williams of IBM’s Midsize Insider blog took at the look how big data tools can improve information management for small- to mid-sized businesses and how big data can impact specific business units. Mr. Williams points out that big … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: Enterprise Content in the Cloud
Cheryl McKinnon brings us some helpful thoughts around data and the cloud in a recent post on CMSWire. Here is what she suggests you think about and consider before moving data into the cloud: Know Your Cloud Provider. Yes, we … Continue reading
