And earlier this year, it upheld the corporate firewall between Janus Capital Group and a mutual fund it advised.

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It can be part of a self-hosted, on-premise architecture, with all data stored on location and protected behind a corporate firewall.

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Meanwhile, everybody complains about Groupwise, and I had to almost get special dispensation from the Pope to be able to access my AOL account through the corporate firewall.

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UPnP has long been considered a liability by network administrators because of its ability to offer a path through a corporate firewall to devices that use the protocol.

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In a recent IDC survey of IT decision makers, 44% of respondents indicated that they were considering implementing a private cloud, a cloud deployment contained within the corporate firewall to meet the needs of internal customers.

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True, if you live behind a corporate firewall, have fast wired connections, and not a tremendous need for performance (network lags can be detrimental to data-hog applications like video editing, software development, and 3D modeling), then you can make do with a Chromebook-like endpoint.

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