If you are concerned about having mobile devices on your network, and about BYOD in particular, you are not alone — and you are right to worry. Mobile devices face a variety of threats, depending on the platform. Here are five of the most important, in no particular order. 1. Theft or loss: theft is [...]
Big Data Follows The Darkness
Apr 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
Using The Mobile WAN for apps? Look Out For Latency!
Apr 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The mobile phone operators promise us blinding speeds, especially with their newest 4G and LTE networks, but will this actually be any use to business — or will deploying your modern apps via smartphone without WAN acceleration make your users feel like they have stepped back into the Dark Age? For the mobile networks, the [...]
Storage Elasticity and the Cloud’s Noisy Neighbors
Mar 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re looking at setting up private cloud services — or public ones, for that matter — you should already to have a handle on how to automate the critical functions of creating, managing and migrating virtual servers. That’s because if you haven’t achieved this level of service elasticity, it is going to cost a [...]
Local Rules and the Need for Online Privacy: Clearing Away the Clouds
Mar 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re debating the use of the cloud and offsite hosting, whether for backup, hosting virtual servers, or whatever, there is a lot more than just networking technology to worry about. Or rather, you may need to worry about the technology in ways that you didn’t expect. The reason is differing local rules and the [...]
Mobile BI Takes Data Analysis on the Road
Mar 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you ready for a new “connected business reality”, with mobile networked usage becoming the norm for heavyweight information-analysis applications, such as business intelligence and its cousin Big Data? Mobile BI builds upon the timely convergence of better WAN and mobile connectivity, BYOD and more powerful mobile devices, and new data analysis tools. Its aim [...]
Get Ready For The Year Of Solid-State Storage
Feb 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If this year’s CES in Las Vegas is anything to go by, 2013 is shaping up to be the year of professional solid-state storage. That might sound like a matter just for your storage team, but like so many other technology innovations before it, it will trigger changes right across IT from servers to the [...]
Is Your WAN Ready for the Next Generation of Backup and Recovery?
Jan 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So what did Santa bring your IT department this winter? If it was a shiny new disk-to-disk backup box to help protect your growing data storage estate, as it may have been for many organizations away from the bleeding edge, it is time to sort out how well this is going to fit with the [...]
Demystifying Deduplication
Jan 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If deduplication is not only a great way to cut your storage costs but also a good way to save on WAN costs, is that reduplication? Either way, deduplication has been around for a while and is pretty mature now, yet there have been a couple of reminders recently that it is still not as [...]
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