Start: October 16, 2011 5:30 pm End: October 16, 2011 8:30 pm Organizer: Tech Cocktail Email: contact@techcocktail.com
Chicago Ideas Week is an inclusive experience for the thinkers and doers of Chicago and the greater Midwestern area. Tech Cocktail is excited to round out Chicago Ideas Week by showcasing a handful of local startups [...]
New Site-to-Site Replication Features Broaden Data Storage Options for Customers Beyond Local and Cloud Backup
Barracuda Networks launched site-to-site replication capabilities for the Barracuda Backup Service, a market leading solution that allows companies to efficiently back up their data both locally and offsite without the hassle of tapes or other removable media. This enhancement [...]
What Are Telephony and VoIP? Voice over IP (VoIP) provides telephony services over your network backbone to all employees, whether they’re within your corporate walls, at remote locations or mobile. By integrating voice traffic over the network, companies realize cost savings on their telecommunications service charges and reduce costs typically associated with deploying or relocating employee phone [...]
What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a combination of software and computing delivered as a service. It provides a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Pooling these resources allows businesses and organizations rapidly to provide staff with access to the applications, infrastructure, or platforms [...]
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What is Threat Prevention? Though the seemingly constant stream of new viruses, worms, rootkits, denial of service (DoS) attacks and other security threats achieve substantial publicity, such threats don’t usually receive notice until significant damage has already occurred. For most companies, the network perimeter has expanded and blurred with the proliferation of [...]
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What is Redundant Networking? Redundancy, also known as resiliency, in a network provides a maximum level of network uptime. Redundant networks help to ensure high availability of critical applications to employees, partners and customers through an optimized network design. By providing multiple pathways to your data, a redundant network eliminates single points of failure [...]
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Google’s social network, Google+, might be one of the fastest-growing networks ever, having already reached 10 million users according to one estimate.
Paul Allen, of Ancestry.com — not to be confused with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — has developed an interesting methodology to calculate the number of Google+ members.
He sampled [...]
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The results from IDC’s annual Digital Universe study (sponsored by EMC) published their key findings on just how much information we’re all creating and using. And every year, the study is a powerful springboard for discussion across the industry. We like it because it makes people think.
This year, [...]
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Hooray for government-encouraged illegal activity involving explosives! Not so much for Katy Perry’s Firework.
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