February 2012
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Greetings! Enjoy another issue of NetEqualizer News! This month, we discuss our newly developed Intrusion Prevention System: NetGladiator – a tool that will effectively protect your websites without hampering network performance! As always, feel free to pass this along to others who might be interested in NetEqualizer News. |
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In This Issue:
:: NetGladiator – The NEW Intrusion Prevention System |
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NetGladiator – The NEW Intrusion Prevention System APconnections – makers of the NetEqualizer – is excited to announce the release of the next great Intrusion Prevention System – the NetGladiator!
The NetGladiator is unlike any other Intrusion Prevention System on the market. Tested against some of the worlds best hackers, NetGladiator uses proven Deep Packet Inspection technology to identify an attack not based on predefined signatures, but on behavior-based anomalies that occur in your network. The idea behind the NetGladiator technology is that the way a potential hacker interacts with your web infrastructure is vastly different from how a normal user interacts with your sites. NetGladiator identifies these anomalies and blocks the attackers before they’ve begun… Because NetGladiator comes to you from APconnections, a name you know and trust in the bandwidth arbitration space, your network will experience zero latency effects. It also will prove to be the simplest and easiest-to-install product on the market with a very fair price point that provides great value. Here are just some of the common attacks that NetGladiator protects against: Engineers at APconnections have cut through the hype surrounding intrusion prevention products with this simple, yet effective product. For more information on the NetGladiator IPS, take a look at our website. You can also visit our blog or contact us at: worldwide: (303) 997-1300 x. 123 -or- toll-free U.S.: 800-918-2763 NetEqualizer 5.6 Release Advised The 5.6 Software Release for NetEqualizer is advised for all customers who are on 5.x that utilize pools, VLANs, and connection limits. For More information on the Software Release, take a look at our Software Update Notes for 5.6. You can also visit our blog or contact us: worldwide (303) 997-1300 x103. -or- toll-free U.S. (800) 918-2763 Cloud Computing – Do You Have Enough Bandwidth? And a Few Other Things to Consider.
By Art Reisman – CTO – NetEqualizer The following is a list of things to consider when using a cloud-computing model. Bandwidth: Is your link fast enough to support cloud computing? We get asked this question all the time: What is the best-practice standard for bandwidth allocation? Well, the answer depends on what you are computing. - First, there is the application itself. Is your application dynamically loading up modules every time you click on a new screen? If the application is designed correctly, it will be lightweight and come up quickly in your browser. Flash video screens certainly spruce up the experience, but I hate waiting for them. Make sure when you go to a cloud model that your application is adapted for limited bandwidth. - Second, what type of transactions are you running? Are you running videos and large graphics or just data? Are you doing photo processing from Kodak? If so, you are not typical, and moving images up and down your link will be your constraining factor. - Third, are you sharing general Internet access with your cloud link? In other words, is that guy on his lunch break watching a replay of royal wedding bloopers on YouTube interfering with your salesforce.com access? The good news is (assuming you will be running a transactional cloud-computing environment – e.g. accounting, sales database, basic email, attendance, medical records – without video clips or large data files), you most likely will NOT need additional Internet bandwidth. Obviously, we assume your business has reasonable Internet response times prior to transitioning to a cloud application…
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Photo Of The Month
Longing for Warmer Weather Colorado weather is a fascinating phenomenon. It can be a glorious 70 degrees in the morning, and be 32 degrees and freezing by nightfall. While there are spotty days of warmth in January and February, we are still in the dead of winter. Pictures like this make us yearn for spring and summer! This photo was taken by one of our staff at a farm in Kansas in August. |
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NetEqualizer News Special Feature: Technology and Other Predictions for 2012 and Beyond
July 13, 2011 — netequalizerAs we pass the midpoint of 2011, it’s time to start making a few predictions about the year to come. So keep an eye out for these developments over the next 18 months. If we’re right, be sure to give us credit. If we’re wrong, just act like this post never happened. Here are our thoughts…
Prediction #1: Apple or a new player will make a splash in the search engine market. Current search engine technology, although thorough and expansive, tends to be lacking in smarts. How many times have you searched for a page or link that you know for sure is out there, and despite your best efforts of crafting your key words, Google or Yahoo can’t find what you are looking for? Sometimes, unless you know the exact context of a sentence, in correct word order, you just can’t find it. And that leaves room for improvement.
This is not a knock on Google, Yahoo! or Bing, per se, but rather just an observation that there is room for another generation of search engine and somebody is going to do it sooner rather than later. However, we expect the next-generation search engine will sacrifice speed for intelligence. By this we mean that it is likely the newer generation may crank for 20 seconds to find what you are looking for, but the slower speeds will be more than compensated for by the better, more relevant results. New search engine technology will take the market by storm because of more useful content.
The reason why we suspect Apple might solve this puzzle is that Steve Jobs has a habit of leap frogging technology and bringing it to market. Google has grown by acquisition and not so much by innovation. If not Apple, then it might also come out of left field at some graduate research lab. Regardless, we think it will happen.
Prediction #2: There will be a tumble in the social networking and search engine stock bubble. The expectations for advertisement revenue will not pan out. Placement ads are just too easy to ignore on the Internet. These sites do not have the captive audience of the super bowl, and advertisers are starting to figure that out.
There will be price pressure on the content sites and search engine sites to lower costs to attract advertisers as they actually start to measure and go public with their returns on advertising investment. There will be quite a bit of pressure to hide this fact in the media, as there is now, but at some point content advertising revenues ROI will bare this out.
We are not predicting a collapse in this market, but just some major adjustments to valuations. This is based on our six years of experience placing online ads. Prices have gone up and results were never there to justify cost.
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Prediction #3: Fuel prices will plummet as the Chinese and Indian economies cool down.
Although oil production and exploration is flat in the US, every other country around the world is picking up exploration and exploiting new reserves. The market will be flooded with oil by mid or late 2012, sending the price of gasoline back down to $2 or below.
Prediction #4: There will be a new resurgence in urban mesh networks.
Why? These things really do enhance economic activity. The initial round of municipal mesh networks was a learning experiment with some limited success and way too much inexperience in sourcing providers.
The real reason for cities to invest in these networks will be the growing monthly fees with 4G devices that traditional providers are charging to cover the cost of their larger networks. Users will gravitate toward areas where they can switch over to free wireless. A well-covered downtown or small city with free wireless service will be a welcome island for business users and consumers alike. Think of it like a stepping inside a circle where you can make free unlimited long distance calls while the rest of the provider networks gouge you when step outside.
We’ll see how these predictions pan out. As always, feel free to share your thoughts on our predictions, or some predictions of your own, in the comments section below.
In a related article, the WSJ reports Wi-fi is the largest provider for Mobile Devices such as the iPhone.
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