Computer Networking

Crossbow Network Virtualization - Convergence of Compute and Network ...

There are a lot of solutions in the market for virtualizing compute services, but what about the network? Crossbow introduces a new highly performant and scalable networking stack into OpenSolaris with unique network virtualization and resource control features. This new infrastructure allows you to combine networking and compute services without trading off security or performance.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Network Know-How--New from No Starch Press: Get Yourself Connected

San Francisco, CA, February 10, 2009—Computer networks aren't just for offices and geeks. These days, with entertainment and business moving online, a herd of computers can be found in even the least tech-savvy household or office, networked...

[Publish Date: February 10, 2009]

Speaker: Hooman Beheshti: Load Balancing, Uptime and Scalability: A ...

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

[Publish Date: December 08, 2009]

Hacking: The Next Generation--New from O'Reilly: Bringing the Attack to ...

--> Sebastopol, CA—With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal...

[Publish Date: September 10, 2009]

Network.com: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, April 20 ...

The Sun Microsystem cloud computing offering, Network.com, is now in controlled public beta. Come learn about it.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Enabling Cloud Computing Today: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by ...

By Michael Banic

This session will offer a pragmatic approach to prepare your data center for cloud computing and the delivery of shared services over the network to your customers. By following a three-phased approach of simplifying, securing and sharing your data center, you will enable the implementation and delivery of services over the network with a new economy of scale.

[Publish Date: October 20, 2009]

The Cloud's Hidden Lockin: Network Latency: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - ...

By Tom Hughes-Croucher, Carlos Bueno

Cloud computing comes with problems you can't code your way out of, such as network latency. The high latency of inter-cloud data exchange creates a bias towards a single vendor solutions, no matter how open the standards are. In this talk we explore the "latency trap" and how "cloud peering" can help customers avoid it and help cloud & web services evolve in a more flexible, sensible way.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]

Google's Failings Say Little about Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Broadcast

By George Reese

Every time an individual cloud vendor suffers a failure like last week's networking issues with Google, mindless bloggers rush out to suggest the failures of one company represent failures of cloud computing in general. It's time to hold this logical fallacy up to the light and learn what we really can learn from any given incident.

[Publish Date: May 16, 2009]

Mashups with Atoms: Ubiquitous Computing and Web 2.0: Web 2.0 Expo San ...

By Mike Kuniavsky

Ubiquitous computing has been here since at least 2005, but we may not have noticed it. This talk will discuss how mashups between meatspace and the Net have already happened, what the emerging patterns are, and how widgetization is about to jump from social networks to devices and then disappear altogether.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]