Standards

The Networking Industry's Biggest Hope: Dynamic Infrastructure

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:30:00 EST

The "speeds and feeds" mantra of the networking industry is about to be replaced by a new "dynamic infrastructure" mantra; and Cisco, Infoblox, and F5 Networks are taking the lead in shaping this new vision of a more flexible, more available, and easier to manage network. New enterprise initiatives, from RFID/wireless to virtualization and even cloud computing, will require more network innovation as network infrastructure supports more fluid systems and endpoints, more complexity, and yet increasingly larger portions of business operations.

The Next Wave of Virtualization

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:00:00 EDT

Virtualization adoption in the desktop and datacenter space has been rampant over the past few years given the popular benefits that the technology has to offer. Classical virtualization benefits are numerous and result in savings on many levels. The ability to host multiple server environments, each as a virtual machine, on a single physical blade yields a measurable reduction in hardware costs.

Accelerating Remote Access Within the Virtualized Enterprise

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EDT

The jury is in. All indicators show that the ubiquitous nature of virtualization in the enterprise is a sure bet. The virtualization software market is projected to grow from $810M in 2006 to $1.8B in 2009, and server virtualization adoption is expected to reach 65 percent in 2009. The key drivers for this aggressive adoption of virtualization among enterprises are well understood.

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Messaging Architects Announces M+Guardian Virtualization Messaging Firewall

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Messaging Architects announced the availability of version 2008.2 of its M+Guardian Secure Messaging Firewall. Now available as a fully virtualized appliance, called M+Guardian VMF, it delivers advanced email security and data loss prevention combined with the business benefits of server virtualization. M+Guardian VMF integrates seamlessly with other components of the M+ platform such as M+Archive, ensuring fully compliant email lifecycle management.

Trusted Computing: Flip the Switch and Help Your PC Protect Itself

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:00:00 EDT

Personal computers hold treasure troves of confidential and personal information ripe for the picking by hackers, thieves, and scammers. Patient records, consumer credit card information, invaluable R&D data, personal finance...we've become increasingly reliant on computers, and need powerful security to protect the confidential data, hard work, and critical information contained in our PCs. Despite major advancements in systems security over the past several years, analysts and industry experts quantify global economic damage from digital risks exceeding a record-breaking $500 billion in 2004.

Weathering the Storm of IT Security Compliance

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:00:00 EDT

In businesses throughout Europe and the United States, the segregation of IT security and system operations has become entrenched. Further confounding the rift is the pursuit of all things 'compliance' (e.g., BS7799, ISO 17799, BASEL II, etc.). Industry analysts and vendors alike anticipate an extension of the compliance movement that focuses on the actual IT audit, which may further confound efforts to reunite IT operations under a common banner. As anxiety heightens over when the next 'Big Problem' will hit the Internet, there are some things that systems administrator and C-level executives can do to fortify their IT business processes against that unseen storm that's looming just over the horizon.