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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). Over time, our use of devices and network resources will form a pattern; no two people should have the same behavioral patterns.

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Trend Micro’s Enterprise Play

Network World

A strong network security defense portfolio. Now that the dust has settled from Trend’s acquisition of TippingPoint a year ago, the company also has robust products for network security. After HP let TippingPoint languish for a few years, Trend is once again investing in R&D, enhancing its IPS performance and usability.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining.

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IPSLA: Your IT Early Warning System

CTOvision

Most people consider it only a networking tool. But just because It’s a layer 2 tool, don’t think for a second that it’s only for measuring network performance. Hidden inside each Cisco router and switch is the ability to generate synthetic transactions that can test the performance of any application traveling across the network.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. F or the past months Ive held that new technologies are OK.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again.

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