New technology is great for organizations. It lets users be more productive, allows for cost savings, and keeps the company ahead of their competitors by allowing them to provide better customer service. Experienced network administrators, however, know that the more advanced technology gets the more difficult it is to keep it running. A managed network [...]
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Last Updated: August 6th, 2010 |
Botnets have become more prevalent as malware writers becomes more sophisticated. One of the trickier pieces of malware that showed up back in 2008 is named Mebroot. This virus, which is still in the wild today, is a rootkit that replaces a machines Master Boot Record permitting it to run prior to the operating system [...]
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Last Updated: August 6th, 2010 |
VMware vSphere is the most widely used and robust data center virtualization software in the industry. It offers the best levels of responsiveness and control , which are deemed a necessity by the largest data centers in the world. VMware vSphere will help you to save money and provide you more control over your computing [...]
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Last Updated: July 21st, 2010 |
When the IT staff plan for upgrades, especially a VoIP deployment, a lot of attention is focused on servers, applications, switches, routers, and network security. Almost no attention is paid to the core network services that allow users to access all these wonderful systems, and are in fact essential for VoIP to even work at [...]
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Last Updated: July 7th, 2010 |
A friend of mine runs a company that runs training labs for IT users all over the world. He had a problem with his latest application, which was a lab simulator for a complex server, storage, and virtualization environment. The problem was, everybody outside the United States was experiencing extremely slow performance. Application performance over [...]
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Last Updated: August 4th, 2010 |
Our engineers have been working with customers for years upgrading and improving their wide-area networks in order to deliver the best application performance to the remote sites possible. We are very familiar with how this is done when using a leased circuit service such as MPLS, both with QoS at the routers, and Wide Area [...]
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Last Updated: August 4th, 2010 |
I was at the Cisco partner conference last month, where the Cisco executives were discussing the technology trends for the next three to five years, and how they are positioning Cisco in order to help build for the future. Most of the presentations were centered around the coming video explosion, and how it is going [...]
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Last Updated: June 10th, 2010 |
Even though it is very convenient to look up pricing for servers, switches, routers, firewalls and the like at online resellers, that is the worst way to purchase. I have been on the inside of IT sales for a long time both at a large networking company that starts with a C as well as [...]
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Last Updated: June 11th, 2010 |
Everyone is familiar with access-lists as a way to drop traffic in IOS. This has become a standard easy way to stop unwanted traffic from traversing networks at key points. There are other solutions as well as ways to optimize your access-lists that sometimes are a better for your router’s processor when it comes to [...]
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Last Updated: June 4th, 2010 |
Botnets are becoming more prevalent as malware technology becomes more sophisticated. One of the more diabolical pieces of Malware that hit the scene back in 2008 is called Mebroot. Mebroot, which is still around, is a rootkit that replaces a machines master boot record allowing it to install even before the operating system of the [...]
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Last Updated: July 27th, 2010 |