Information Technology 2.0




    What happens when a real virus hits the internet

    Over the past few years, speculations about SARS, “Bird Flu”, “Swine Flu”, H1N1 and other potential pandemic viral events have been making headlines.  Not only are there shortages of vaccines, but the potential for quarantines still exist.  Most businesses haven’t made plans for this event.  The costs to businesses in terms of productivity and time [...]

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What happens when a real virus hits the internet

Over the past few years, speculations about SARS, "Bird Flu", "Swine Flu", H1N1 and other potential pandemic viral events have ...

WiMax coming to Chicago next month

WiMax will go on sale in Chicago next month as one of the first cities in the US to support ...

Best Practices in Information Technology

If you ask three engineers what it will take to fix a problem - often time you will get three ...

Citrix – XenDesktop Setup Wizard – Fails to see vDisks

Problem – You installed Provisioning Server 5.01 and XenDesktop Setup Wizard from the XenDesktop 3.0 DVD. You run through ...

Citrix – XenServer Loss of connectivity to XenCenter – XAPI

While working on the new XenServer farm, I encountered a problem with connectivity from XenCenter to the XenServer Pools.  Essentially ...

Citrix – XenServer Flash the NIC’s

If you have ever had to trace down a NIC, or attempt to figure out which ETH XenServer has assigned ...

News

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-23

RKON welcomes representatives from @f5networks and @riverbed to our office today! #
Survey for IT decision-makers http://hub.tm/?gpdHC #

Citrix

Citrix and Microsoft: Virtualization Dream Team

A new whitepaper from Citrix highlights the advances in Application Delivery and how you can apply this in your business.  Citrix’s strong business and co-development relationship with Microsoft has allowed it to build strong virtualization solutions on the Windows Server platform while delivering applications over the network with an excellent user experience.  Go here for [...]

Check Point

Check Point adds Windows 7 support to Endpoint Security

Check Point® Software  today announced Windows 7 Microsoft operating system support for Check Point Endpoint Security™, the first and only single agent that combines all the critical components for total security on the endpoint. Businesses with a mixed environment of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 based desktops and laptops gain through Endpoint Security a [...]

Juniper

Juniper unveils “New Network” Initative

Juniper celebrated the 40 year anniversary of the Internet this week with an expanded portfolio of products, processors, software and partnerships intended to capitalize on the strength of their JUNOS operating system.
The new products and partnerships include:
• New JUNOS software that allows customers to directly program multiple layers of their networks for faster service turn-up [...]

F5

F5 Study Shows Cloud Computing Gaining Critical Mass Among Large Enterprises

Survey reveals more than 80% of large enterprise IT managers are at least in trial stage for cloud computing initiatives; study also highlights key concerns with cloud adoption

SourceFire

Sourcefire at IANS – November 2-3, 2009

IANS Mid West Security ForumMillennium KnickerbockerChicago, ILNovember 02-03, 2009http://www.ianetsec.com/forums/splash.html?forum_id=47
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Riverbed

Why Microsoft Sharepoint needs WAN Optimization

ESG: Why SharePoint Needs Riverbed’s WAN Optimization Solutions

According to recent research from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), implementing SharePoint is a Top 5 initiative for CIOs. But a hidden challenge in SharePoint is to ensure that end users are able to quickly access and edit files when connected via the WAN. Learn about the key [...]

Infoblox

Unleashing the Power of Dynamic Infrastructure in the Data Center and Branch

Is your network ready for Infrastructure 2.0?
Network infrastructure will be transformed in coming months by new levels of automation and intelligence driven by new system and endpoint demands and new IT initiatives. Find out how you can boost network availability and flexibility while reducing TCO by transforming your static network infrastructure into a dynamic network [...]