Bi-Monthly Computer Networking/IT Industry Updates (10 – 23, Dec. ’13)

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Welcome to another edition of bi-monthly Computer Networking/IT industry updates. Let us look at some interesting happenings, news, product releases, etc. from the various vendors in our industry, over the last two weeks (10 – 23 December, 2013).

#1. Aruba Networks placed in the Leaders Quadrant for Network Access Control: You can see all the vendors and their position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control from the link available here (courtesy Aruba Networks).

#2. Why should enterprise companies choose 5 Ghz over 2.4 Ghz: This article by Motorola Solutions explains why 5 Ghz is better than 2.4 Ghz, for real-time applications over Wi-Fi networks. If your Wireless Network is still on 2.4 Ghz spectrum, read this.

#3. Amazon Web Services introduces I2 Instances & Makes Kinesis available to all customers: I2 instances are next generation EC2 high I/O instances based on SSD technology. Read more… Also, Amazon has made Amazon Kinesis, a managed service for real-time processing of high volume/streaming data, available to all. More info…

#4. Blue Coat acquires Norman Shark: Blue Coat will be integrating the zero-day sandboxing technology from Norman Shark with their Advanced Threat Protection solution, as a result of this acquisition. Read more…

#5. Oracle’s new Enterprise Communications Broker for Managing Multi-Vendor Unified Communications (UC) Networks: This ‘Enterprise Communications Broker’  “Leverages unique protocol manipulation capabilities to help eliminate incompatibilities between various third-party systems, allowing virtually seamless communications between disparate UC applications”, says Oracle. Read more…

#6. Want to see the latest Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for User Authentication? – Here it is (courtesy SafeNet).

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