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Juniper's Project Stratus reinvents data center network architecture
Juniper Networks lifted the veil off its new data center network architecture. Project Stratus is now QFabric, a giant, abstracted data center switch that connects all storage and compute elements ...24 Feb 2011
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Top five virtualization problems: Virtualization backup and recovery
It’s hard enough to grapple with disaster recovery in a physical environment, but when it comes to virtual servers, virtualization backup and recovery become even more difficult. Fast Packet blogge...22 Feb 2011
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Networking tutorials
SearchNetworking.com’s tutorials are a great resource for technical tips and valuable best practices on routing, switching, network security, network/systems management, convergence/VoIP and wirele...22 Feb 2011
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Live migration networking: Enter long-distance data center bridging
Live migration networking poses all sorts of challenges, including the potential need for long-distance data center bridging that results in traffic trombones. When it comes to server virtualizatio...21 Feb 2011
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How to ensure WLAN performance optimization
To ensure wireless LAN performance optimization, you’ll need to implement new WLAN measurement and testing tools and conduct WLAN performance testing periodically even after network implementation.17 Feb 2011
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Time to upgrade from 100 Mbps to Gigabit Ethernet on the network edge?
While 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet might provide enough bandwidth for your campus network today, a Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) upgrade on the network edge may prepare the local area network for the coming con...16 Feb 2011
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New Cisco network security architecture has next-generation firewall
With its new network security architecture, SecureX, Cisco tries to transcend next-generation firewall hype by focusing on more than application awareness. It's all about the context of who, what, ...16 Feb 2011
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Quiz: Network management for dynamic networks
How much do you know about network management? Take this short quiz to determine what you've learned from our advanced workshop with Zeus Kerravala.14 Feb 2011
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loose coupling
Loose coupling is a method of interconnecting the components in a system or network so that those components, also called elements, depend on each other to the least extent practicable... (Continued)10 Feb 2011
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Long distance vMotion = traffic trombone, so why go there?
Server admins swear by long-distance vMotion and the ability to move applications dynamically across data centers, but this only results in traffic trombones and lots of other network nightmares. F...10 Feb 2011
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Do Web application firewalls complicate enterprise security strategy?
Using Web application firewalls should only be one slice of your overall enterprise network security strategy. Even then, users must be aware that application firewalls can leave behind vulnerabili...09 Feb 2011
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Using hardware load balancers for Web-based apps: One school’s story
When a large school system launched a Web-facing student information server, its IT organization deployed its first hardware load balancers within its data center network.04 Feb 2011
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Cisco Live London: Uncle John promises to fix Cisco security strategy
Fast Packet blogger Greg Ferro reports from Cisco Live London where (after a marketing exec was stripped down by orphans!) Uncle John promised a stronger focus on Cisco security strategies as well ...03 Feb 2011
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Endpoint power management: Energy savings through network monitoring?
Many network monitoring and security tools have been expanded to include power management and policy enforcement features. Find out what the Tolly Group learned when it tested Lumension’s endpoint ...01 Feb 2011
Network Management Strategies for the CIO