Archive for October, 2007
A Series of Tubes #30 — WANning
October 25th, 2007This week’s feature topic is WAN optimisation. Yeah, yeah, we’ve covered it before but you lot still don’t get it. And until you do, we’re going to keep reminding you about these clever boxes. It’s up to you – go out and save your WAN by buying some of this kit and we promise we’ll [...]
A Series of Tubes #29 — Future Games
October 18th, 2007This week we’re featuring extracts from a question and answer session with Cisco’s Howard Charney.
Charney founded Grand Junction, the company which invented Fast Ethernet and low-cost Ethernet switching and he ended up at Cisco when the networking giant acquired his company. He was also a founder of 3Com, the company which brought Ehernet out of [...]
A Series of Tubes #28 — Virtually insecure
October 10th, 2007This week’s feature topic is virtualisation. Oh, no not again! Hang on, we’ve got a twist. We’re looking at whether all these virtual machines have opened up a gaping hole in your security and what you should do about it. Michael Sentonas from McAfee and Andre Kemp from VMWare will kick that topic around for [...]
A Series of Tubes #27 — Web 2.0.3.1.4
October 4th, 2007Our feature topic this week is Web 2.0 and whether the social networking revolution has any place in corporate networks. Some are already embracing the technology while others remain sceptical. And some are yet to be convinced that the web has earned the 2.0 tag.
Chief Reporter with ZDNet Australia, Jo Best with the week’s news
Microsoft’s [...]