Weekly Computer Networking Industry Updates (June 25 to July 01, 2012)

Weekly Computer Networking Industry Updates (June 25 to July 01, 2012)

1. Cisco announces Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Router EA6500 powered by 802.11ac technology – Cisco has announced the availability of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Router EA6500 that is powered by the latest wireless technology – 802.11ac. This new access point can support speeds of up to 1300 Mbps (as per their spec sheet), has six internal antennas and can support both 2.4 GHz (to connect to legacy networks) and 5 Ghz (for 802.11ac). Laptops and tablets are yet to get the 802.11ac adapter and they are expected by the end of this year. Read more…

2. Google announces Google Compute Engine to create massive VM clusters on the cloud –  Google Compute Engine, is an Infrastructure-as-a-service product that enables customers to create and run Linux-based Virtual Machines using the Google cloud infrastructure. Among other things, it is possible to launch large compute clusters consisting of thousands of cores, launch multi-core Linux VM’s On-demand and create compute clusters out of them. Read more…

3. Symantec and Redhat announce joint enterprise data-center solutions – Symantec and Redhat Linux have announced joint enterprise data-center solutions to provide automated off-premise disaster recovery, cost-effective failover for Oracle databases, storage management for multi-OS/multi-storage systems, among others. Read more…

4. Will Lighting and IT Converge? – It seems Cisco & partners have demonstrated LED lights that can be controlled over IP at the Cisco EnergyWise pavilion at Cisco Live, San Diego. So, now we can expect intelligent network controlled lighting systems for companies and other commercial establishments in the future. Lighting and IT have already converged! Read more…

5. IBM Redpaper released for IBM Flex System (Data Center) – IBM has released a Redpaper on the IBM Flex System for Data Centers. The Flex System is a chassis based solution that offers integrated servers, storage, networking and unified management for Data Centers. Read more…

6. Wireshark in the large enterprise (Videos, published by Riverbed) – If you are using Wireshark or planning to use Wireshark for network monitoring and troubleshooting in a large enterprise setting, you might want to have a look at these videos where Wireshark power user Hansang Bae delivers a useful session at the Sharkfest 12. Read more…

7. Will Flame Virus/Worm burn itself out (from Fortinet blog) – While the Flame virus has garnered a lot of attention towards itself in the recent weeks (partly due to its 20 MB size and partly due to its automated spying capabilities), will it affect common users? Probably not, argues this blog article from Fortinet. It also says, now that we have seen the capabilities of automated computer worms, we should be more bothered about what could happen in future, than worrying about the current pack of worms that are meant to do certain particular tasks (only). Read more…

8. Time to consider secure application enablement policies (from Palo Alto Networks) – With the Olympics coming soon, video broadcasting of the event will occupy a considerable amount of bandwidth in corporate networks as some employees might want to watch a few events. So, differentiating the video traffic for business and video traffic for personal/entertainment purposes is critical to avoid bandwidth constrains, says this blog post from Palo Alto Networks. Read more…

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