September 2006 - Posts
People have been talking about the convergence of physical and logical security in earnest ever since the fateful Sept. 11 attacks took place five years ago. And yet, the state of security in most buildings today is pretty much limited to a few unarmed
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Given the fact that at least half of all travel associated with business usually involves meetings that could just as easily be done over Web or videoconferencing systems, the time might finally be upon us to reduce their air travel and put a couple of
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Although Microsoft gets most of the blame for the security mess we all live with every day, it should not go without saying that Intel is just as much at fault for our collective security woes as Microsoft is. After all, the way the Intel architecture
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One of the more fascinating things to think about as we come to to close of Interop is how far application acceleration has come in less than a year. Everybody knew that application acceleration would be a big thing one day because everybody has one or
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One of the basic limitations of innovation across all spectrums of technology comes down to a relatively simple matter of access to high-end computing horsepower that allows researchers to run models to test various theories. For example, it’s extremely
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Probably one of the most tedious tasks in all of IT is keeping track of all the assets, which is the job that most people don’t want or that never gets done. The end result of this is that most IT organizations are never really certain what they happen
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There’s no doubt that the noise level surrounding the management of virtualization far exceeds the adoption of virtualization in production environments, but for all the hype surrounding new players pushing new paradigms, there is one serious obstacle.
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Normally you would like to let the musings of fellow media denizens stand on their own merits, but when the lead editorial of the Sunday edition of the New York Times says we all need to check our laptops because of terrorism threats, well that’s
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While there is no question that Cisco plays a major role in this industry, the amount of influence it exerts on the strategic direction of the industry as whole has not been commensurate with its size.
This is because for the most part Cisco
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