January 13, 2022
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Comments Off on Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security
If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired … Continue reading
April 6, 2020
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Comments Off on Tailscale launches Wireguard-secured mesh network
Once upon a time, besides the star-endpoint network model, many small networks used a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. You may recall it from such network operating systems as LANtastic and Windows for Workgroups. Now, new company Tailscale is taking that old … Continue reading
March 10, 2017
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Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you’re running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now, with the Samba 4.6 release, the program has been … Continue reading
March 3, 2015
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There are endless ways to share files between devices. Some of them are complex, ftp and Network File System (NFS). Some, such as Apple Bonjour and Windows Homegroup, work with only a few operating systems. Still others, like Dropbox and … Continue reading
February 19, 2014
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If you follow networking vendors, you know they get along with one another about as well as a dog whose tail has just been pulled and a cat who’s had a bucket of water dumped on him. That’s why it … Continue reading
October 15, 2013
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According to networking giant Cisco, it’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud world as cloud-based network traffic explodes. Besides data center/cloud network growing at a remarkable rate, Cisco also foresees the majority of server workloads moving from traditional servers to the … Continue reading