Market research firm Infonetics Research released its biannual NAC Enforcement Appliances report, which tracks network access control enforcement appliances priced below and above $30,000.

This paper covers Stealth, a new technology for data protection.

Some thoughts on how cloud security is different and some technologies that might address the challenge.

Dependency on network resources has grown tremendously over the past ten years. In today's world, a company's success is highly dependent on its network availability. As a result, companies are increasingly less tolerant of network failures. Therefore, network troubleshooting has become a crucial element to many organizations.

Interesting analysis of that battle of the ages -- Google v Microsoft and how it impacts the entire IT landscape.

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is an iconic product: Its ease-of-use and unique business model have defined cloud computing. But is it ready for the enterprise?

Every major category of IT infrastructure has been endowed with some virtualization capability. Although virtualization can make your IT environment more cost-effective and agile, the underlying technologies have matured at different rates. Furthermore, not every form of virtualization will deliver the business value you have experienced with more mature forms like server virtualization. To simplify planning for infrastructure and operations professionals, Forrester has analyzed the main infrastructure virtualization technologies' maturity and potential. THis includes a review of network virtualization and IO virtualization technologies.

Internetworking—the communication between two or more networks—encompasses every aspect of connecting computers together. Internetworks have grown to support vastly disparate end-system communication requirements

Cloud computing is coming. IT is finally catching up with the rest of the Internet by extending the enterprise outside of the traditional data center walls. And although cloud computing is transforming traditional IT, it is still immature.

The European Network & Information Security Agency (ENISA) released a report two weeks ago covering Cloud Computing Risk and Security. The report highlights 35 risks to consider when making sourcing decisions that include private or public Cloud services.

Cloud-based desktop application services (Google Apps) are a component of Google’s strategy to expand into new businesses that augment its Internet search and advertising prowess. To be successful, the search engine has trained its array of computers and data analysis acumen on these new business imperatives of small and large businesses alike to fuel future growth and its market making capabilities.

This hand book is available free. It provides a comprehensive primer on all areas of networking, the various protocols, extensive wireless data and a whole lot more.

This paper from Motorola contains some interesting data for those involved in designing, deploying, monitoring and managing high-speed wireless networks.

There are many wireless standards and protocols in play. Which ones should you harness and which ones are becoming obsolete?