Category: Networking & Virtualization

Security of wireless networks has always been essential. This January the Wi-Fi Alliance® announced a new version of its Wi-Fi Protected Access® or WPA designed to improve the security of 802.11 wireless networks. The four improvements directly address authentication and confidentiality of the networks. Since most of us have Wi-Fi networks in our homes, offices, […]

Solid Permissions create a Microsoft SharePoint Platform that Delivers Better Performance and is Easier to Manage I often tell course Attendees that once they implement a solid Microsoft SharePoint permission construct that they should never have to manage permissions again. The challenge is that here are several ways to assign permissions within the SharePoint environment […]

A Wi-Fi range extender may not be the best idea for improving wireless network performance. My home office is as far away from the master bedroom as possible. That’s generally a good thing, but it’s not good when it comes to the wireless network. The Internet connection enters at my office, and that’s where the […]

Many organizations use cloud services. Many deploy network services as containers. And now, many are combining the two. Let’s look at the advantages of running containers in the cloud. Isn’t This Virtualization on Top of Virtualization? Yes! It has to be. There is no way to do what is defined as cloud computing without virtualization! […]

In a recent Introduction to Networking class, a participant asked whether the colors in the 10BaseT networking cable were always the same as the ones in the course notes. I replied that while “always” is a strong word, they should always be those colors. The participant asked why, and I followed up with a bit […]