* Cisco steps up its WAN optimization game * Grids moving into enterprise data centers * Video interview: Protecting online transactions * Q&A: Wi-Fi Alliance exec defends about-face * Analysts have their doubts about new carrier architecture * Today on Layer 8
Cisco steps up its WAN optimization game
Cisco Tuesday is set to introduce a product suite that couples the company’s Wide-Area File Services and content distribution technologies with optimization features to deliver an integrated feature set that tackles application performance over the WAN and at branch offices. Click here for more.
Grids moving into enterprise data centers
Mention the word “grid” and most IT executives probably think of thousands of CPUs crunching numbers for data-intensive applications such as seismic modeling and drug discovery. Increasingly, however, grids are being considered as platforms for creating more flexible, efficient data center architectures. Click here for more.
Video interview: Protecting online transactions
How does your mental fingerprint give you away online? And how can it help you protect online transactions? Find out from Verid CEO Kevin Watson in this week’s Network World Hot Seat.
Q&A: Wi-Fi Alliance exec defends about-face
On Aug. 29, the Wi-Fi Alliance unexpectedly announced it would reverse is oft-repeated decision to do no interoperability testing of 100+Mbps wireless LAN gear until final, formal ratification of the 802.11n standard. Network World talked with WFA Managing Director Frank Hanzlik about this sudden change in the Alliance’s position. Click here for more.
Analysts have their doubts about new carrier architecture
IP Multimedia Systems is not a slam-dunk according to a group of industry analysts that gathered at the FierceMarkets IMS executive Summit conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss the future of IMS. Click here for more.
Buzzblog
On vacation… but a lineup of summer reruns is counting down the Top 10 Most-Read Buzzblog Items of All-Time (which means since Feb. 1).
Today on Layer 8, where we say, “Everyone out of the pool!”:
The most useless robot ever created; Amish resort to building their own phone booths; neat tech story or guerrilla marketing?; and the winner of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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