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Cloudy Wednesday: Mission-Critical Apps

You have dabbled in the cloud and found success. Are you thinking about those mission-critical applications – are they ready for the cloud? Also important, is your cloud computing provider ready for mission-critical applications writes Thor Olavsrud from CIO? Mr. … Continue reading

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    Web App Attacks

    A recent report by Imperva, a data security firm, found that a web application is attacked one of three days on average writes Lucian Constantin for Computerworld. The report found that a typical web application is attached 137 times in … Continue reading

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      Wide Area Network & Application Performance

      Mr. David White writes for Network World about the importance of WAN Optimization and governance to application performance. In the past WAN Optimization has been focused on compression and protocol accelerations, but today’s focus is on application performance from visibility … Continue reading

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        Cloudy Wednesday: Ten Questions for Disaster Preparedness

        Stephanie Overby reports for CIO ten questions that the “intelligent” cloud customer should ask their cloud computing service provider to ensure they are protected from potential disasters. Ms. Overby found that since 2007 a total of 568 hours of downtime … Continue reading

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          2011 Year in Review: Cloud Storage’s Silver Lining

          In 2011, cloud storage was one of the few technologies that could attribute its success to the lagging economy.  “Cloud storage systems and services helped users deal with the uncertain economics of 2011 by letting them fund that growth using … Continue reading

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            Tape Ready for a Comeback

            In his article “Tape Makes a Comeback in the Era of Big Data” on IT Business Edge, Arthur Cole says tape is still a viable storage option. The need for bulk data storage at a relatively low cost has led … Continue reading

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              Cloudy Wednesday: Driving Transformation Into Cloud

              Welcome to “Cloudy Wednesday”. Each Wednesday, Evolving Solutions will focus on the latest news and information on cloud computing. With many customers fully virtualized, it’s time to take them the rest of the way toward a true cloud solution, said … Continue reading

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                Powering the Virtual Data Center

                Jon Brodkin’s recent article on CIO discusses new research from Duke University and Microsoft tackling the increased powering complications from data center virtualization. A virtualized power shifting (VPS) system budgets power with an application-aware power distribution in mind. VPS dynamically … Continue reading

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                  Navigating the Perfect Storm

                  Data center and IT Management is quickly changing. A recent report from the Lippis group speaks to three strong trends that are taking shape and will create a ‘perfect storm’ for the data center networking industry. The first storm is … Continue reading

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                    Networking for “East-West” Traffic

                    The move to data center virtualization and cloud computing is placing new demands on the system network fabric. This new network traffic is increasingly east-west to enable machine-to-machine communications versus the traditional north-south network traffic. To deliver the most efficient … Continue reading

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