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What is a firewall?

Network World

billion industry in 2015 and expected to reach $12.7 Most firewalls are deployed as network hardware that processes traffic and software that allow end users to configure and manage the system. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. billion by 2020.

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The US Leads In Public Cloud Services, But Other Regions Are Catching Up

Forrester IT

Rymer published their latest public cloud services outlook, The Public Cloud Services Market Will Grow Rapidly To $236 Billion In 2020 ,projecting 22% annual growth in public cloud services over the 2015-to-2020 period. Read more.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. 2015 will also be a time of turmoil and retrospection as nefarious and evil forces leverage the power of technology against civil society.

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For Government Cyber Security Leaders and Big Data Designers: 27 Jan Breakfast To Share Design Patterns

CTOvision

Date: 27 Jan 2015. Join Eddie and Bob Gourley of CTOvision on 27 Jan 2015 in an interactive discussion on best practices in security for big data deployments that will cover: Authentication. Ways to leverage Intel hardware for enhanced security performance. By Bob Gourley. Time: 0730 till 1030. Location: Washington DC.

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Meter Command: the modern network interface

CIO Business Intelligence

Meter is an internet infrastructure company that spent the last decade re-engineering the entire networking stack from the ground up to provide everything an IT team needs––hardware, software, deployment, and management––to run, manage, and scale internet infrastructure for a business, at a fixed monthly rate. Your network. Register now.

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Napatech to showcase Pandion at RSA 2015

CTOvision

Hardware based PTP (precision time protocol) timing ensures nanosecond-precision time stamping for every captured packet to allow for high fidelity analysis and replay of captured data. However, Pandion represents a dramatic, customer driven, leap forward in time-to-market acceleration.

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the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote

SPF13

Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. OS Provides Portability 
 (same app runs on different hardware). 2005 - 2015 Distributed Applications Era. Transcript. The Future of the Operating System. What is an Operating System ? OS Manages Processes & Resources. OS Provides Isolation & Reliability.