Containing the cost of powering the data center is one of the chief priorities for many IT and facilities professionals. …
Cables that bind
Although we may take a wired world for granted, the consequence is that we rely on wires to connect us …
Google knows where you surfed last summer
Google knows who you are. It knows what you search for. It knows what you had for dinner last night …
Microsoft, Intel to back Cisco’s “Unified Computing” launch
Contrary to previous reports, Cisco's data center vision does not seem to be a largely solo effort. Microsoft, Intel, BMC, …
Optical Ethernet for metropolitan nets
Ethernet has taken over sector after sector of the networking world, from workgroups to enterprise backbones. Now, a technology called …
Bad Symantec update leads to trouble
Symantec says a buggy diagnostic program spurred a rash of Norton antivirus user complaints late Monday and Tuesday morning. Problems …
Gmail down; outage could last 36 hours for some
Google Inc.'s Gmail e-mail service is down for an undetermined number of users, and while the outage has been partially …
Sun aims for SSD future in servers
Sun has laid out more of its plans for using solid-state drives in its servers, which it says will help …
Vendors face off in 11n ‘challenge’
When the wireless LAN controller architecture came into its own about half a decade ago, an exhausting, cutthroat features war …
Internet Explorer 8: Security Features for Enterprise Users
Over the past year, Internet Explorer has lost market share while browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and even …
Being Offline !
Although the Internet seems to be everywhere these days, there are still times when it's beyond your reach — on …
Moving to a unified wireless switch topology
Wireless access is quickly becoming essential in enterprise networks. With the arrival of 802.11n and its capacity of hundreds of …
Mobile browsers bring new security headaches
The new generation of mobile Web browsers is going to introduce for enterprise IT departments a rash of security challenges. …
Cloud computing not ready for critical apps
Educational Testing Service (ETS), developer of the SAT and other tests, runs applications on software-as-a-service platforms such as Salesforce.com. And …
Economic crisis means hard times, hard decisions for IT
As the economic news continues to get bleaker, double-digit budget cuts are becoming a fact of life in many IT …
Unpatched PDF bug poses growing threat, say researchers
An unpatched bug in popular PDF viewing and editing applications is much more dangerous than first thought, according to security …
Vista-downgrade lawsuit: Microsoft now accused of price-gouging
The California woman suing Microsoft Corp. over Windows Vista's downgrade rights revised her lawsuit yesterday to focus her charges on …
Sun’s stellar NAS in a can
Not so long ago, we tested the Sun Fire X4500 Storage Server, aka Thumper, which was a dual-CPU, dual-core Opteron-based …
Microsoft: Enterprises will be able to self-host Windows Azure
Future versions of Windows Server will enable companies to efficiently manage and provide virtualized applications through the Web just like …
Patching it up
By all accounts, patching software is a disruptive, time-consuming process requiring IT departments to test any new software patch before …