Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment. WAN optimization vendors …
What do standards mean?
We all know what a meter, hectare, litre, and second mean, but we may not be aware of the standards …
Microsoft plugs critical Exchange, IE holes
Microsoft Corp. today patched eight vulnerabilities — three of them marked “critical” — in Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange and SQL …
Managing software assets
The current climate of company mergers and downsizing is putting CIOs under pressure to keep the lid on software costs …
Intel updates laptop, desktop chip plans
Intel on Tuesday accelerated plans to release two dual-core laptop and desktop processors, tweaking its road map as it juggles …
Don’t be a data loss victim
Somebody was siphoning customer financial data from a chain of gas station/convenience stores. The perpetrator covered his tracks so well …
The incredible shrinking operating system
From the software concept called JeOS (pronounced “juice”), the Just Enough OS, to hardware concepts like Celio RedFly, an 8-inch …
Mozilla to join EU suit against Microsoft
The European Commission has granted Mozilla, the open-source collaboration behind the Firefox Web browser, the right to join the antitrust …
HP netbooks will run three versions of Windows 7
In a vote of confidence for Windows 7's suitability for use on netbook PCs, Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will likely …
Kaspersky says Web hack ‘should not have happened’
It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked. A …
Time of opportunity is now, says Dell
The call comes at a time when CIOs and IT managers in the region have been called upon to maximise …
Paramount warns against data theft
Providing a safe and secure environment within the constraints of today’s budgets and regulations is a challenge for top management …
The WAN plan
Is WAN optimisation gaining popularity in the Middle East? What is driving the market? The Middle East market as a …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
Mixing green flavor in high performance computing
The supercomputing world is one of giant government labs, big machines and speeds measured in hundreds of trillions of calculations …
Mac clone maker wins legal round against Apple
A federal judge last week ruled that Psystar Corp. can continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone …
Economy could slow enterprise adoption of Windows 7
The turbulent economy could hinder enterprise adoption of Windows 7, even though many companies opted to skip Windows Vista and …
MySQL co-founder quits Sun
Michael “Monty” Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems Inc. and is starting his …
NetApp discontinues SMB storage appliance
While NetApp will not provide any further product upgrades for StoreVault, which had recently been renamed the S Family/S550, NetApp …
Microsoft enhances office communication with better voice
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has …