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HOUSTON, September 7, 2010 – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Dallas Data Center (http://www.DallasDataCenter.com), a provider of Colo By The U, is the company’s newest referral partner, and joins its growing portfolio of referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet provides colocation services from its wholly [...]

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The continued exploit of many vulnerable applications that have been fixed by vendors for over a year highlight the need to keep software updated with the latest versions and patches.
A new report released by security firm M86 Security reveals a trend toward more sophisticated forms of malware in taking advantage of vulnerabilities in common software [...]

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Mozilla implements new initiatives to ensure the security of its browser to fix the main security holes, and this brings Firefox’s latest version to 3.6.7.
The Mozilla foundation, the organization behind the Firefox browser, announced recently that it has released a patch to fix many major security holes found in its software, as well as the [...]

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Admittedly, I’m a total nerd.  I don’t pretend to dispute it.  My wife and my son might disagree, but he’s only 6 months old.  I say he still counts, but you might not agree.  That being said, I love being the nerdy guy and when it comes to having fun at the house, it can [...]

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Palo Alto Networks was just awarded the “2010 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year” in the Firewall Market by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.  The following criteria were used as a benchmark for all competitors:

Growth Strategy Excellence
Growth Implementation Excellence
Degree of Innovation with Products and Technologies
Leadership in Customer Value
Speed of Response to Market Needs

Frost & Sullivan [...]

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Palo Alto Networks recently released their ‘read-only’ Facebook functionality that can be implemented with the next-generation firewall and is available now at no cost to their customers.  The ‘read-only’ Facebook allows companies to enforce their Facebook policy by having finer-grained controls over their employee’s access to the popular social networking site.  This functionality lets companies [...]

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Dallas Data Center is proud to announce that Motion HR has put their trust in us by choosing to host their SaaS offering, CloudHCM, at DDC.  We are running their SaaS offering using some of Dell’s new R710 servers, firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco switches.  Their environment is set up in a full [...]

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Palo Alto Networks has released an updated product demo video for their next generation firewalls.  In this video, Lee Klarich, Vice President of Product management, provides an introduction to the capabilities of the PAN firewall.  This video only takes around 7 minutes to watch him demonstrate the application visibility and policy control elements of the [...]

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Gartner recently released the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls where they placed Palo Alto Networks in the visionary quadrant.  Gartner acknowledged the following key points about Palo Alto Networks:
“Taking a next-generation firewall approach to the market, Palo Alto Networks saw rapid growth in 2009 and meets the inclusion criteria for this edition of [...]

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Gartner RAS Core Research’s note “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall” focuses on how “firewalls need to evolve to be more proactive in blocking new threats, such as botnets and targeted attacks.  Enterprises need to update their network firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect business systems as attacks get more sophisticated.” (Gartner, 2009)
What exactly is the [...]

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Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade.  The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]

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The Cyber Security Act of 2009 was the subject of a February 2010 hearing where experts informed Senators of how U.S. companies are encountering an increasing amount of computer-based network attacks that are stripping them of much needed revenue and market advantages.  With the intention to regulate entities that provide critical infrastructure for the United [...]

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The network security company Palo Alto Networks™ has accomplished the 1,000th enterprise customer milestone, thus, meaning the company has won leading Fortune 1000 organizations such as Qualcomm and DTE Energy.  Palo Alto Networks has vastly extended their technology and market leadership through their new next-generation firewall software and their customer acquisition.
As stated by Palo Alto [...]

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Technology isn’t a one size fits all situation. Seems the more we try to fit our environment into a box, the more expensive the box becomes. There are ways to avoid this, IT consultants and Project managers. Both of these skill sets are necessary to have a successful IT implementation.
IT consultants can offer valuable insight [...]

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