SAN FRANCISCO — August 11, 2010 – Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, today announced the launch of Meraki Traffic Shaper, an application aware bandwidth control system integrated with Meraki’s wireless networking solutions. Traffic Shaper is the first cloud-managed traffic shaper, as well as the first intelligent bandwidth control to be integrated into a wireless LAN. It enables administrators to see precisely how their network is being used, and to reserve bandwidth for critical applications while restricting recreational network usage.
Traffic Shaper enables administrators to:
• Analyze network traffic by application or application class
• Enforce traffic shaping policies (e.g., limit each user’s peer to peer traffic)
• Stay up to date with hundreds of constantly updated application signatures
• Prioritize critical applications using QoS policies
Traffic Shaper is Business Critical
Wireless LANs have become a critical part of a network infrastructure. Yet mission-critical applications increasingly compete with bandwidth-intensive recreational applications like video streaming and peer-to-peer file. The result? The ability to intelligently control wireless traffic translates directly to business application performance.
Controlling Traffic with a Wireless Network
While dedicated traffic shaping appliances are available, they come at a considerable cost – often tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars – and require yet another solution to be deployed, maintained, and managed. Integrating Traffic Shaper directly into the wireless LAN provides intelligent bandwidth control with no additional cost and complexity.
Cloud Based Application Signatures are Always Up to Date
Traffic Shaper’s cloud-based signature database is constantly updated, enabling Traffic Shaper to identify new and changing applications without requiring the administrator to download and install software updates. Meraki’s cloud-based architecture also enables Traffic Shaper to continually learn from Meraki’s 15,000+ networks and millions of users, increasing the accuracy and precision of application fingerprints.
Line-Rate Layer 7 Fingerprinting on Every Access Point
Traffic Shaper operates through a custom-built layer 7 packet inspection engine running on each Meraki 802.11n access point. Meraki Traffic Shaper recognizes hundreds of applications, including recreational applications such as YouTube and BitTorrent, and business applications like Salesforce.com and Google Apps. Traffic Shaper provides extensive visibility and control into network usage. Administrators may view and control bandwidth consumption by application, by content type (e.g. video, audio, text), and by user. Meraki Traffic Shaper runs at line rate, with no loss of performance.
Beta-Tested by Top Universities and Enterprises
Traffic Shaper has been beta-tested by a number of Meraki Enterprise customers, including Stanford University’s Computer Science department, Foster Pepper PLLC, and Sweet Briar College.
“For wireless-heavy campuses like ours, this is an essential tool for managing bandwidth,” said Aaron Mahler, Director of Network Services at Sweet Briar College. “As we move critical applications for staff and faculty to the cloud, we have to ensure uninterrupted access to these tools while maintaining a quality experience for recreational users. Traffic Shaper empowers us with detailed knowledge of how people are actually using the network so we can make educated decisions when it comes time to add bandwidth.”
“With the proliferation of business-critical web applications, and bandwidth-intensive recreational applications spilling over to business and campus networks, application-aware bandwidth control is a key to a high-performance wireless network,” says Meraki CEO Sanjit Biswas. “Traffic Shaper is a huge step forward in enabling administrators to understand and control what is flowing over their networks Our cloud-based architecture lets us deliver features like Traffic Shaper without adding cost or complexity to our customers’ networks.”
Traffic Shaper will be available for use by all Meraki Enterprise customers, with no additional hardware or software, and at no additional cost. Traffic Shaper is currently in beta, and will be generally available September 30.
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Thursday, 12 August 2010
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
A New Paradigm for Mobile Device Management - Mobile Device ...
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TARGET AUDIENCE:
Network professionals and enterprise architects looking to implement solutions that will deliver enhanced application and data center availability, as well as provide comprehensive management for mobile devices and wireless LANs (WLANs).
Key findings from IDC Analysts:
Mobile device management market growth drivers.
http://info.mobileiron.com/IDC_Step1_201007.html
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TARGET AUDIENCE:
Network professionals and enterprise architects looking to implement solutions that will deliver enhanced application and data center availability, as well as provide comprehensive management for mobile devices and wireless LANs (WLANs).
Key findings from IDC Analysts:
Mobile device management market growth drivers.
- Large smartphone shipments to businesses and consumers
- Rapid growth in mobile applications
- Controlling access on a variety of converged mobile devices (smartphones) brought into the enterprise
- Allowing employees to be productive with the devices of their choice
http://info.mobileiron.com/IDC_Step1_201007.html
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010
MobileIron Raises $16M for Smartphone Management
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Monday, 9 August 2010
Expand Networks Demonstrates Optimized Military Communications at LandWarNet 2010
Expand Networks www.expand.com, the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies, will demonstrate the latest innovations in acceleration techniques for military communications, to include tactical cloud computing and comms-on-the move at LandWarNet 2010.
As military organizations continue to seek the best methods to deliver network services, visitors to the booth can learn how Expand’s technology eliminates congestion, latency and reliability issues experienced by the forces over satellite links; maximizing military communications, even in the most harsh locations on land, in air and at sea. A live demonstration will also enable delegates to witness how Expand’s unique optimization techniques are bringing real-time network services closer to the forward edge of the battle area and accelerate the kill-chain.
“Within any military environment, performance is everything and we understand that the network is no exception to this rule,” explains Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets at Expand Networks. “The military cannot afford to be limited by unreliable wireless or satellite links for mission-critical communications in combat environments. They require optimization to squeeze every possible bit of performance out of a network, whether for intelligence, command and control, or tactical communications - or morale, welfare and recreation – all critical components to achieving a mission.”
Expand Networks continued technology innovations have long inspired confidence in the delivery of military communications tools; since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 11,000 Expand Networks Accelerators have been deployed throughout the US government and in all branches of the American Military and US Coast Guard.
“We have a long experience and leadership position in the military and government sectors at Expand, and we are committed to delivering the superior performance and communication so vital to the military in these challenging environments,” Teicher continues. “Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy the soldiers’ network performance requirements. Expand’s flexible deployment options, including virtual appliances running on commodity hardware, and client software for individual workstations, provide the Army with an efficient optimization capability for every environment.
The technology demonstration will enable military experts to explore Expand’s superior capabilities including integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard technology, Layer 7 traffic discovery and Quality of Service, acceleration and optimization in a real-time environment where changes can be configured on the fly to simulate any military environment.
Expand Networks will be demonstrating its Virtual Accelerator and Mobile Accelerator Client for optimizing tactical cloud computing and comms-on-the move at LandWarNet 2010, Tampa Convention Centre, Tampa, Fl. from August 3rd- 5th . Visit booth# 1646 to find out more.
Expand Networks’ Accelerators have recently been deployed with US Army and Marine Corps forces in Southwest Asia since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Expand Accelerator Operating System is also utilized within the US Army’s WIN-T architecture. Find out more at: http://www.expand.com/satellite/default.aspx#military
As military organizations continue to seek the best methods to deliver network services, visitors to the booth can learn how Expand’s technology eliminates congestion, latency and reliability issues experienced by the forces over satellite links; maximizing military communications, even in the most harsh locations on land, in air and at sea. A live demonstration will also enable delegates to witness how Expand’s unique optimization techniques are bringing real-time network services closer to the forward edge of the battle area and accelerate the kill-chain.
“Within any military environment, performance is everything and we understand that the network is no exception to this rule,” explains Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets at Expand Networks. “The military cannot afford to be limited by unreliable wireless or satellite links for mission-critical communications in combat environments. They require optimization to squeeze every possible bit of performance out of a network, whether for intelligence, command and control, or tactical communications - or morale, welfare and recreation – all critical components to achieving a mission.”
Expand Networks continued technology innovations have long inspired confidence in the delivery of military communications tools; since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 11,000 Expand Networks Accelerators have been deployed throughout the US government and in all branches of the American Military and US Coast Guard.
“We have a long experience and leadership position in the military and government sectors at Expand, and we are committed to delivering the superior performance and communication so vital to the military in these challenging environments,” Teicher continues. “Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy the soldiers’ network performance requirements. Expand’s flexible deployment options, including virtual appliances running on commodity hardware, and client software for individual workstations, provide the Army with an efficient optimization capability for every environment.
The technology demonstration will enable military experts to explore Expand’s superior capabilities including integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard technology, Layer 7 traffic discovery and Quality of Service, acceleration and optimization in a real-time environment where changes can be configured on the fly to simulate any military environment.
Expand Networks will be demonstrating its Virtual Accelerator and Mobile Accelerator Client for optimizing tactical cloud computing and comms-on-the move at LandWarNet 2010, Tampa Convention Centre, Tampa, Fl. from August 3rd- 5th . Visit booth# 1646 to find out more.
Expand Networks’ Accelerators have recently been deployed with US Army and Marine Corps forces in Southwest Asia since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Expand Accelerator Operating System is also utilized within the US Army’s WIN-T architecture. Find out more at: http://www.expand.com/satellite/default.aspx#military
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Thursday, 5 August 2010
Meraki Extends "Free The Net" Project In San Francisco To ...
Meraki, the company that is pioneering new technologies to bring the next billion people online, announced today it will "unwire" affordable housing in San Francisco, another milestone in the company's effort to bring free broadband wi-fi access to the city's residents.
"The Meraki mission is to change the economics of Internet access for everyone, including those who live in some of our most underserved communities," said Sanjit Biswas, CEO and founder of Meraki. "For a fraction of the cost of hardwiring these communities, we will bring high-speed Internet access to families who have never had access in their home before. And we're bringing new communities online everyday across the globe."
Already Meraki has established free wireless access in Altamont Hotel and Dunleavy Plaza, two of the city's affordable housing communities that provide single occupancy and family housing to over 100 tenants. Over the coming months, Meraki will extend Free the Net to dozens of similar communities in San Francisco.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sanjit Biswas appeared together today at the Altamont Hotel and Valencia Gardens where they spoke about unwiring the city.
"San Francisco is one of the most connected cities in the country and we are excited to support the work of companies such as Meraki in their endeavor to bring wifi access to every neighborhood in the city," said Mayor Gavin Newsom. "It is due to local based companies like Meraki who blend the best technology with the best intentions and an ability to execute which make our city great."
Meraki also said it has added new neighborhoods to its "Free the Net" network in the city. Residents in Noe Valley and Bernal Heights are now connecting to the network. Residents in those neighborhoods as well as those in the Mission, Alamo Square Hayes Valley, Nob Hill, Russian Hill and the Castro can now sign up at http://sf.meraki.com ; to find out how they can help spread access throughout their community. Meraki is providing this free access as it tests its ability to bring wireless access to an entire city.
San Francisco residents have transferred more than 25 terabytes of data on the Meraki network and activity on the network has increased 120% since January of this year. In the meantime, Meraki wireless networks continue to proliferate around the country. Thousands of Meraki networks have been established in more than 100 countries across the globe.
Meraki's technology is unlike any other wireless access technology currently available. Every point in the network communicates with each access point and reports information back to a central server which can optimize speed and performance throughout the network.
Meraki is funding the entire cost for establishing the network across the city, including affordable housing communities. The company is funding "Free the Net" in order to demonstrate to other communities around the world that Meraki technology can be used to create city-wide wireless networks at a fraction of current costs. No public funds will be used to build the Meraki wireless network in San Francisco.
Meraki said it will initially use Wi-Fi technology to build its network, but plans on updating and improving the technology infrastructure with technology innovations developed by the company or others.
The company expects to have "Free the Net" access points up and running in every neighborhood of the city by the end of this year. Meraki makes their new home in San Francisco this week.
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"The Meraki mission is to change the economics of Internet access for everyone, including those who live in some of our most underserved communities," said Sanjit Biswas, CEO and founder of Meraki. "For a fraction of the cost of hardwiring these communities, we will bring high-speed Internet access to families who have never had access in their home before. And we're bringing new communities online everyday across the globe."
Already Meraki has established free wireless access in Altamont Hotel and Dunleavy Plaza, two of the city's affordable housing communities that provide single occupancy and family housing to over 100 tenants. Over the coming months, Meraki will extend Free the Net to dozens of similar communities in San Francisco.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sanjit Biswas appeared together today at the Altamont Hotel and Valencia Gardens where they spoke about unwiring the city.
"San Francisco is one of the most connected cities in the country and we are excited to support the work of companies such as Meraki in their endeavor to bring wifi access to every neighborhood in the city," said Mayor Gavin Newsom. "It is due to local based companies like Meraki who blend the best technology with the best intentions and an ability to execute which make our city great."
Meraki also said it has added new neighborhoods to its "Free the Net" network in the city. Residents in Noe Valley and Bernal Heights are now connecting to the network. Residents in those neighborhoods as well as those in the Mission, Alamo Square Hayes Valley, Nob Hill, Russian Hill and the Castro can now sign up at http://sf.meraki.com ; to find out how they can help spread access throughout their community. Meraki is providing this free access as it tests its ability to bring wireless access to an entire city.
San Francisco residents have transferred more than 25 terabytes of data on the Meraki network and activity on the network has increased 120% since January of this year. In the meantime, Meraki wireless networks continue to proliferate around the country. Thousands of Meraki networks have been established in more than 100 countries across the globe.
Meraki's technology is unlike any other wireless access technology currently available. Every point in the network communicates with each access point and reports information back to a central server which can optimize speed and performance throughout the network.
Meraki is funding the entire cost for establishing the network across the city, including affordable housing communities. The company is funding "Free the Net" in order to demonstrate to other communities around the world that Meraki technology can be used to create city-wide wireless networks at a fraction of current costs. No public funds will be used to build the Meraki wireless network in San Francisco.
Meraki said it will initially use Wi-Fi technology to build its network, but plans on updating and improving the technology infrastructure with technology innovations developed by the company or others.
The company expects to have "Free the Net" access points up and running in every neighborhood of the city by the end of this year. Meraki makes their new home in San Francisco this week.
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010
OpSource Redefines Strategy and Extends Application Management and ...
OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that it has redefined its strategy to better address the needs of enterprises and the channel. OpSource has restructured its product portfolio and developed customized solutions to enable its customers to use both cloud and managed hosting services together to support more complex IT requirements. Additionally, the company has introduced the OpSource Partner Ecosystem partner program to deliver joint solutions.
"In order to be more flexible and cost-efficient, CIOs must be able to use cloud computing resources and SaaS applications as easily and securely as internally-managed resources," said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. "More than 30% of our managed hosting customers with dedicated environments also use our pay-as-you-go cloud services. At the same time, more and more of our OpSource Cloud customers were asking for help to scale their mission-critical applications running on the cloud. It just made sense to integrate our product portfolio."
OpSource has reorganized its offerings into services and solutions.
Services now include:
To support its new focus, OpSource today announced the OpSource Partner Ecosystem, a comprehensive new partnership program. This program expands the company's commitment to its partners by providing benefits for: developers and consultants; cloud platforms; integrators and MSPs; telecoms; and distributors and resellers.
"OpSource really understands how to help its partners make the most of the cloud, offering customized solutions like white labeling," said NTT America Vice President of Products and Solutions Doug McMaster. "Working with OpSource we were able to quickly and easily build the NTT America Cloud, which not only brings our customers a leading cloud offering but also demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with as complete and competitive hosting portfolio as possible."
http://andhranews.net/Business/2010/July/19-OpSource-Redefines-Strategy-Extends-29843.asp
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"In order to be more flexible and cost-efficient, CIOs must be able to use cloud computing resources and SaaS applications as easily and securely as internally-managed resources," said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. "More than 30% of our managed hosting customers with dedicated environments also use our pay-as-you-go cloud services. At the same time, more and more of our OpSource Cloud customers were asking for help to scale their mission-critical applications running on the cloud. It just made sense to integrate our product portfolio."
OpSource has reorganized its offerings into services and solutions.
Services now include:
- OpSource Managed Hosting: a bundled managed service including colocation, network connectivity, dedicated or virtual servers, operating system management, storage, firewalls, load balancers, and backup infrastructure
- OpSource Cloud Hosting: a pay-as-you-go service that includes a virtual server, Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system, CPU, RAM, storage and customer-configurable VLAN, firewall, and load balancer
- OpSource Application Operations: application management services including Database Management, Change Management, Performance Management, Application Optimization and Compliance
- OpSource Business Operations: business tools that simplify billing, analytics and customer support
- SaaS ISV Solutions: Cloud and Managed Hosting services paired with Application Operations and Business Operations to scale operations and shorten time to market
- Telecom Solutions: White Label resale of the OpSource Cloud with Business Operations billing integration
- Cloud Platform Solutions: integration of the OpSource Cloud into Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions
To support its new focus, OpSource today announced the OpSource Partner Ecosystem, a comprehensive new partnership program. This program expands the company's commitment to its partners by providing benefits for: developers and consultants; cloud platforms; integrators and MSPs; telecoms; and distributors and resellers.
"OpSource really understands how to help its partners make the most of the cloud, offering customized solutions like white labeling," said NTT America Vice President of Products and Solutions Doug McMaster. "Working with OpSource we were able to quickly and easily build the NTT America Cloud, which not only brings our customers a leading cloud offering but also demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with as complete and competitive hosting portfolio as possible."
http://andhranews.net/Business/2010/July/19-OpSource-Redefines-Strategy-Extends-29843.asp
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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