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CIOUpdate

  1. Have good looong weekend everyone. Summer's here!!! Cheers and thanks for reading ~ Allen
  2. Market for #networking gear looks strong ow.ly/b9Ndh
  3. Brocade's upping the ante on carrier grade switches #Brocade Accelerates #SDN to #100Gbps ow.ly/b87y8
  4. Along the same lines as my last tweet, Jim Frey of EMA talks about how VM (and therefore VMware) deployment practices are still...
  5. Looks like #VMware is hitting a home run with #vSphere 5 except for price ow.ly/b6bir
  6. #Logicalis just completed a six part series for me on working with #cloud public, private and hybrid. It's pretty good. ow.ly/b3uxl
  7. Networking startup Big Switch talks about #software defined #networking and #open source makes working their offering more...
  8. ow.ly/b0Eeq Enterprises have poured a lot of money into their networks and wouldn't mind just a little more return as the cloud...
  9. Cisco's enabling BYOD for it's empoyees but it only pays for phones of folks that really need them. ow.ly/aXoAm #byod #cisco...
  10. The eDiscovery Implications of Structured Data - And you thought it was safe to go back into the water! ow.ly/aWNNj
  11. I guess it's pretty hard to figure out how much capacity your network has ... ow.ly/aVNWG #MIT's working on the problem however.
  12. Another great Art Cole blog Re-Thinking Network Architectures in the #Cloud ow.ly/aVCEo
  13. Working on a private #cloud of your own? This series from SI firm #Logicalis will help. ow.ly/aVv23
  14. Big government inefficiencies could benefit from new tech according to Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp. ow.ly/aNSZp
  15. MySpace is selling you to advertisers. Murdoch would be proud. ow.ly/aMvVG
  16. Cloud adoption a lot less than you might think according to Cisco ow.ly/aMhvD
  17. Part 4 of Logicalis' series on private cloud is out. Good stuff for those looking to implement a cloud of their own or just make their...
  18. This has nothing to do with IT but totally cool (IMHO anyway). Super moon this weekend. Largest moon of 2012 ow.ly/aG4k3
  19. Wondering if RIM's going to make it? Mobile Fusion and BB 10 may help or could just help IT ow.ly/aFaW9
  20. @NetworkNotes We're twettin'