Every year around the same time retailers begin to advertise their back-to-school sales, IT vendors start to pick up the pace of new product introductions. Lately there have been a slew of telework-oriented announcements - including new products and services for bolstering security, simplifying remote access and trimming expenses. Here are a few that caught my eye.
Ann Bednarz is a senior editor covering enterprise applications at Network World. She can be reached at mailto:abednarz@nww.com
Fujitsu pumps out 10G Ethernet data center switch
11/11/09
Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy efficient way.
Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled
11/11/09
Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call vBlocks, pre-configured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.
Is e-mail a perfect cloud application?
11/11/09
In the beginning there was email. And email was run on a UNIX server. The network was devoid of PCs. So all email was accessed via a terminal and a command line interface.
* Small-office security. I set up the wireless network in my home and found configuring the security provisions to be the toughest part - mainly because the default settings seemed to circumvent using authentication. I'm sure many small-business users, teleworkers and consumers can relate. To help such users simply and adequately secure their wireless LANs, start-up Electronic Lifestyle Integrator (ELI) offers an appliance that combines network functions with a hosted security service. The service automatically updates the appliance's built-in anti-virus, content-filtering and anti-spam applications - as many as 30 times a day, according to company executives. To find out more, check out the full story by my colleague, John Cox.
* Wi-Fi security help. In a similar vein to start-up ELI's wireless security appliance is new Wi-Fi software from security veteran McAfee. It, too, is aimed at easy security setups. McAfee Wireless Home Network Security works to keep unwanted users from accessing WLANs or tapping into packet streams. The software automatically sets up encryption keys on Wi-Fi routers and the PCs connected to them, and then rotates the keys every three hours, according to McAfee.
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