Jim Rapoza

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Business Is Losing The App Usability Battle

November 08, 2012

Traditional business applications don’t fare well compared to consumer options. Is it time for companies to focus more on the user experience and less on application performance?

Data Centers

Browsing Like It's 1990

Jim Rapoza

October 15, 2012

Mobile computing has to rely on old tricks to keep up with websites built for screaming-fast home and office broadband.

Networking

There's No 'I' in Team--Or App and Network Performance Management

Jim Rapoza

September 26, 2012

Much like in football, successful application and network performance requires all teams to work together. Learn why you should abandon the siloed approach to infrastructure and start...

Data Centers

The Truth About Network Performance: It's the Applications, Stupid

Jim Rapoza

September 05, 2012

Your end users aren't sitting around, lamenting network performance. They're cursing the apps they're using. Here's why your enterprise should start focusing on application performance as...

Wireless Infrastructure

Are You Ready to Tackle Mobile Application Performance Management?

Jim Rapoza

August 09, 2012

As mobile devices continue to gain ground, Web apps is losing its dominance. Now it's time for companies to prepare for the realities of mobile application management.

Networking

Adobe Muse: Web Authoring For Designers

Jim Rapoza

November 22, 2011

Released as a preview or early beta, Adobe Muse is a code-free tool for building websites. Muse uses a drag-and-drop interface to make it possible to...

Data Centers

Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Plans The Future Of The Data Center

Jim Rapoza

November 08, 2011

There’s a new open source project--led by giant companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Dell--that is looking to change data center hardware in the...

Networking

Convergence Protects Against Fraudulent Web Security Certificates

Jim Rapoza

November 03, 2011

Recent problems with certificate authorities have exposed major problems with the trustworthiness of Web browser security. Rather than simply...

Networking

Facebook's Open Compute Summit Pushes Open Hardware For The High End

Jim Rapoza

October 28, 2011

At the Open Compute Summit this week in New York, Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware design and supply chain, opened the proceedings by saying, "Open source is not just...

Networking

Infoblox Aims To Ease Growing IP Address Management Headaches

Jim Rapoza

October 14, 2011

As more and more Internet-enabled devices find their way onto company networks, the task of managing IP addresses and DNS requests for these devices becomes harder and harder. Network...

Networking

New Xirrus XR Wireless Array Debuts At Interop New York

Jim Rapoza

October 06, 2011

Wireless technology vendor Xirrus, whose previous generation of wireless arrays helped to provide Wi Fi access to Interop attendees, released their new wireless Array at the NYC edition of...

Networking

InteropNet's IPv6 Network Evolves For Interop New York

Jim Rapoza

October 04, 2011

Some of the most interesting technology to be seen at this week's Interop will be running inside of the show’s InteropNet network. That’s because, as was the case at the spring Interop show...

Networking

Tufin Looks To Take Firewall Management To The Next Level

Jim Rapoza

September 15, 2011

Tufin Technologies has long offered tools for managing firewalls and has even provided capabilities to monitor next-generation, application-aware firewalls. But with the release of the...

Careers and Certifications

Certificate Authority Hack Points To Bigger Problems

Jim Rapoza

September 06, 2011

What with hurricanes, earthquakes and Kardashian weddings dominating recent media coverage, you may have missed the news about a recent security breach that clearly displayed a serious...

Networking

Trend Micro Looks To Secure Cloud And Virtual Systems

Jim Rapoza

September 02, 2011

While security concerns don’t always get the attention they deserve in discussions about the cloud and virtual infrastructures, this week’s VMworld 2011 conference saw an increased interest...

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