802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi': What you need to know

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	802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi': What you need to know Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passe. Although the official 802.11ac specification won't be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on store shelves sporting the faster wireless protocol. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue FAQ: What you need to know about CISPA Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault? LAN attack can put some Samsung TVs in endless restart loop An RDP client and a Smartphone 'Copter Sprint posts loss, plans WiMax for Boost and Virgin Netgear to ship gigabit-speed wireless in May with 802.11ac router Net neutrality provision gets 5.9% of AT&T shareholder votes INSIDER CIOs: Will You Be Relevant in 2017? Is it So Bad for the CIO to Report to the CFO? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Learn more. FAQ: What you need to know about CISPA The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) despite opposition from privacy advocates, lawmakers and the White House, which threatened to veto the bill if it lands on the president's desk in its current form. Read More Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault? Expensive and specialized Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind? Read More LAN attack can put some Samsung TVs in endless restart loop A vulnerability in the firmware of several network-enabled Samsung TV models and possibly Blu-ray players allows potential attackers to put the vulnerable devices into an endless restart loop that requires the intervention of a technician to terminate, according to independent security researcher Luigi Auriemma. Read More An RDP client and a Smartphone 'Copter Ah, what a week it's been. Ravelling the unravelled and fixing stuff I thought was fixed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Sprint posts loss, plans WiMax for Boost and Virgin Sprint Nextel will start offering 4G WiMax service to its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid customers later this quarter, CEO Dan Hesse said after the company reported a net loss for the first quarter. Read More Netgear to ship gigabit-speed wireless in May with 802.11ac router Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in May for a starting list price of $199.99. Read More Net neutrality provision gets 5.9% of AT&T shareholder votes About 5.9 percent of AT&T shareholders have voted for a proposal calling on the company to commit to net neutrality principles on its wireless networks, but supporters of the measure called the vote a success. Read More INSIDER CIOs: Will You Be Relevant in 2017? Columnist Adam Hartung says CIOs are in danger of becoming irrelevant if they focus on old technologies and practices. He advises that you forget what worked in the past and focus on technologies that will delight employees and customers in the future. Insider (registration required) Read More Is it So Bad for the CIO to Report to the CFO? Conventional wisdom says the CIO should report to the CEO. But not everyone agrees that's so important. Read More
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