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Cisco fleshes out its data center switch fabric story
Last week's data center splash from Cisco means customers can now begin to implement the company's fabric technology just about end-to-end, from the server network interface card to the network core.
Pharma firm bans non-SAAS apps
AMAG's IT needs are more efficiently and cost effectively served by public cloud providers, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS), than by internal systems and applications.
Road map to the public cloud
At this point in the evolution of cloud computing, the public cloud is probably not IT's first choice when it comes to core enterprise workloads. But there's still a place for public cloud services, and it's up to IT to determine what that is.
Cancer center builds Texas-sized cloud
As researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center work at "making cancer history," they're doing so with the help of compute power and storage capacity from a private cloud.
5 more Android apps for IT
Gibbs has a few more Android apps that he thinks you need.
When you can't trust your own company
The 'Net is just one hack away for disaster
Games on company gear? Depends who you ask
Only about a third of more than a thousand respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players.
Attacks on the foundation of our industry
In the two weeks since my last column, the security industry has been rocked by several extremely serious attacks against some of our fundamental pillars of trust: two-factor authentication (RSA SecurID) and SSL certificates (Comodo).
IBM: Mobile phone and cloud security issues can bite unwary IT departments
IBM says IT staff need to pay extra attention to use of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure on business networks because both technologies are still young, and security can be sketchy.
Google building fiber network in Sprint's backyard
Sprint and Google are apparently going to working more closely together in more ways than one.
Microsoft to raise license price, add software rights
Microsoft is boosting the price of a client license but sweetening the deal by giving buyers access to a new endpoint security product and the new Lync unified communications software.
Verizon's ThunderBolt packs a 4G punch
A few weeks ago at the CTIA 2011 conference in Orlando, I lamented to an attendee about being stuck with 3G connectivity at my hotel room. "Wow, someone complaining about only having 3G" was his response, which got me to think about how fickle we get about technology whenever something new or faster comes out (in this case, so-called 4G wireless).