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  • School district opts for VDI in computer labs

    As technical director for the Rocori School District in Stearns County, Minn., Brian Michalski was looking into virtual desktop infrastructure as a way to cut costs in the schools' 13 computer labs.

  • OpenFlow startup takes aim at Cisco, VMware

    Big Switch Networks has announced the general availability of its OpenFlow-based software-defined networking products and applications, as well as customers and partners.

  • VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die

    To some outsiders looking in, VMware has gone through quite a change recently by purchasing two companies, embracing OpenStack enabling multi-cloud support. CTO Steve Herrod says it's all part of the broader plan.

  • VMware beefs up its app data management tools

    Seeking to firm its position in the budding application data management space, VMware today released the latest upgrade to its vFabric GemFire product that enhances administrative controls, provides a new interface and aims to make it easier for applications to handle larger amounts of data faster than previous versions.

  • 2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage

    As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/120511-cloud-companies.html">virtual desktops</a>.

  • Security minefield: 'Bring your own device' will bedevil IT security in 2012

    The rapid adoption of the newest mobile devices -- especially the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> and the Google <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based equivalents -- will be a huge disruptive force in enterprise <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> next year. Not only will there be pressure to decide how to protect and manage these devices, which are growing as malware targets, the complexity of this task is magnified many times over because companies are allowing employees to use their own personal <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> and tablets for business purposes -- what's sometime called "bring your own device" (BYOD).

  • CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs

    William McCracken took over as chief executive officer of CA Technologies close to two years ago and in that time has engineered a series of organizational changes and acquisitions aimed at improving the company's perception among buyers and broadening its reach into new areas of technology and new customer segments.

  • What's next with hypervisors?

    The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

  • Security roundup: Lockheed Martin sounds alarm on Adobe Reader zero-day; Microsoft patchfest coming

    When Adobe last week issued an <a href="https://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-04.html">advisory</a> about a dangerous <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120611-hackers-exploit-adobe-reader-zero-day-253810.html">zero-day attack</a> based on an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild to try and seize control of both PCs and Macs, it credited Lockheed Martin for sounding the alarm about it.

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