WAN

Cloud hype dies away, cloud deployments here to stay

Nemertes 2010 PilotHouse Awards for WAN technology

The Nemertes 2010 PilotHouse Awards were announced today to highlight the highest-rated IT vendors in various markets ranging from WAN optimization to cloud carriers. These awards are not cherry-picked by...

Are you forcing end users to use peer-to-peer sharing?

Last week, news writer Jessica Scarpati reported that employees at Schur, a printing and packaging company based in Horsens, Denmark, were using public peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services, instead of the...

Avoid buying more bandwidth to support cloud environments

Cloud computing may require more bandwidth to support the workloads traveling across your wide area network (WAN). But many businesses can't afford to buy more bandwidth. To learn more about how cloud environments affect WAN bandwidth, I spoke to IT infrastructure expert

WAN security concerns from the 2010 Verizon data breach investigations report

Today marks the release of the third annual

Microsoft Windows 2008, R2: Changes to SSTP VPN, traffic authentication and x.509 certificate setup

If you are upgrading your company's Windows operating system (OS), you should...

Application delivery: A WAN manager’s job requirement

Now that businesses have become more comfortable spreading offices across the globe, IT departments manage many more remote offices and mobile workers. As much as IT makes distances in the world feel smaller, no one is a miracle worker. The longer the distance, the longer traffic takes to send....

Free virtual seminar on optimizing networks; win an iPad

Cloud computing, virtualization and lofty user expectations require a network to be both robust and flexible--but limited resources prevent IT staff from enabling the network to meet these demands. This makes network management and finding the right tools all the more important. How can you do...

The Internet is broken — how can we fix it?

Everyone who can connect to the Internet experiences it one time or another -- a Web page is not found; a connection takes forever, or worse -- disconnects. It's times like these that the uninformed Chip the sales guy says the website is down, or the...

No job? No training? Start a network engineering career in IPv6

The jobs cut in the Great Recession have amounted to significantly more than in the previous four downturns, (see The great job fake-out), but that job loss number in the tech industry hasn’t faltered as...