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Mar 07, 2017
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‘Paging Dr. VT320, paging Dr. VT320’

The use of a 30-year-old Digital Equipment Corp. VT320 terminal to support a hospital paging system has sparked a debate about how old is too old. Read More

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Solution Center: Rapid7

Do You Have the Power to Make Nothing Happen?

When it comes to security, the ability to "Make Nothing Happen" is really quite exciting. Check out these resources to learn how Rapid7's threat exposure management, incident detection and security advisory services enable organizations to see network risks and spot attacks before they damage your network. When you can make nothing happen, your enterprise can make growth happen. Read More

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Infrared lasers must replace data center wiring, say engineers

Using infrared lasers instead of fiber optics improves data center communications and can help data centers reduce power costs, researchers say. Read More

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Ensure your data infrastructure remains available and resilient

Data infrastructure and application outages are preventable with proper application and data protection. Read More

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You broke the network. Do you confess?

Today we’re taking a deep look into mindset of the network professional – his or her soul -- when it comes to breaking something and owning up to the mistake … or not. Read More

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Fave Raves 2017 call for submissions

What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Send us your submission for Fave Raves, our annual roundup of the best products, as chosen by readers. Read More

(2007) Behind the scenes of MIT's network

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network Manager/Security Architect Jeff Schiller is leaning back in a plum-colored recliner in his office, but he isn’t relaxing. The victim of a back problem that has forced him to forgo a more traditional office chair for now, the 25-year MIT network veteran has more than enough to do, with the school forging ahead with several major network projects, including a massive VoIP rollout and its foray as a regional fiber-optic network operator. Schiller covered the gamut in a recent interview with Network World Executive News Editor Bob Brown. Read More

(2006) The network industry’s most colorful story ever

A quick study of the network industry could be enough to give you the blues. Read More

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(2016) Did Google kill a … donkey?

A few days ago I needed to know whether Google had actually killed a particular product or merely put it on a back burner, so I typed into the company’s search-engine box: “Did Google kill …” Read More

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(2015) Watching a ‘Swatting’ slowly unfold within sight of the Boston Marathon starting line

The instant a bystander told me what he had heard, I knew this police operation was almost certainly the result of a hoax known as Swatting. Read More

White Paper: Dell Inc

A Practical Guide for Evaluating the Value of VCE Converged Infrastructure for Data Center Modernization

This study provides insight on various types of clouds and how they are used today along with a practical framework to evaluate converged infrastructure versus do-it-yourself approaches. Based on interviews with organizations that implemented VCE solutions, Forrester quantified how VCE converged infrastructure drove significant increases in IT efficiency and productivity, as well as decreases in the cost associated with infrastructure. Read More

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