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January 8, 2009  3:44 PM

Overheard – 2009, the year of the netbook



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
netbook, Wireless

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December 28, 2008  7:12 PM

Overheard – MiFi personal cloud



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
MiFi, Wi-fi, wireless router

mifi.jpg Novatel might be on to something with its MiFi device. It’s basically a rechargeable, portable wireless router that...


December 22, 2008  3:31 PM

Overdheard – The future of the Internet according to Pew



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Internet, predictions, Technology, virtual worlds

By 2020, the virtual world will  have blended with the physical world; to speak of them as separate...


December 16, 2008  5:40 PM

Overheard – Do we really need Wide Area File Services?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
WAFS, WAN

jon_toigo.jpg Lewis Carroll would've had a field day satirizing the re-emergence of WAFS (Wide Area File Services), a storage...


December 16, 2008  4:58 PM

Overheard – How WAN accelerators work



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
correct addressing, Technology, transparent addressing, WAN, WAN accelerators

mike_demaria.jpg In a typical setup, a WAN accelerator is placed at each end of a WAN link. The appliance sits on the LAN...


December 9, 2008  2:51 PM

Overheard: Cisco steering towards video



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cisco, MPLS, Technology

suraj-shetty.jpg Earlier performance-enhancing technologies, such as MPLS, helped support video as one of many applications....


December 8, 2008  8:24 PM

Overheard: How does anomaly-based monitoring fit into tomorrow’s security picture?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
anomaly detection, Malware, network security, Technology

We knew that the volume of new attacks and the vectors used were only going to increase, so we chose to stay ahead of the curve with a...


December 3, 2008  10:43 PM

Overheard – What does an Infiniband server switch look like?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cisco, HPC, Infiniband

Product manager Robert Stromer demos Cisco SFS 7000 Series InfiniBand server switches. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jzSGJSNVOoQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Brock, from Saint Paul, MN shows off a new cluster from Penguin Computing -...


December 1, 2008  2:51 PM

Overheard – Replacing Infiniband with 10GE



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
10GE, Ethernet, HPC, Infiniband, Technology

dan_tuchler.jpg Sure, it's proven, and a lot of people use it. But like many proprietary technologies, it also has some...


November 26, 2008  3:27 PM

Overheard – Disruption Tolerant Networking Protocol



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
DTN, protocols, TCP/IP, Technology

alan_boyle.jpg By the time astronauts make humanity's next giant leap, they may well be getting their e-mail via a dot-space...