In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft Corp. is wooing …
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 …
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 …
Cisco’s data-center push holds promise, perils
Cisco Systems' move into the heart of data centers, expected to be laid out at an event next Monday, holds …
Adobe patches zero-day PDF bug, mum on details
Adobe patched a critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software that hackers have been exploiting for more than …
Videophones dive into cool market
Tandberg and Polycom ventured again where many have failed before, each introducing a video phone for enterprise desktops. Image quality …
Motorola launches smaller rugged wireless devices
Motorola Inc. announced the smallest and lightest versions in its MC55 series of ruggedized enterprise digital assistants, offering two models …
Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
For the County of Los Angeles – with more than 10 million residents, the nation's largest county – the timing …
Being Offline !
Although the Internet seems to be everywhere these days, there are still times when it's beyond your reach — on …
Sun’s Rock processor on track for this year, exec says
AMDAfter a year's delay, Sun Microsystems' 16-core “Rock” server chip is on track for delivery in the fall, the head …
HP expands virtual storage offerings
Hewlett-Packard aims to cut the total cost of storage while allowing enterprises to keep adding capacity and forging ahead with …
Network management for the masses
The old saying that “you can only manage what you can measure” happens to be true, so what can you …
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. …
Security needs to be ‘baked in’ say experts
A panel of security experts agreed that security needs to thought of a lot earlier in the software development lifecycle, …
Selecting an UTM
While information security has became the most important aspect for any form of business process, the mushrooming of vendors in …
Security expert worries about smart phone, TinyURL threats
It’s just that F-Secure’s chief security advisor doesn’t want people overlooking the other 29,999 malware files his company sees a …
The promise of desktop virtualisation
What is desktop virtualisation? The use of software to abstract the operating system, applications and associated data from the user's …
Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex
Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and …
Patching it up
By all accounts, patching software is a disruptive, time-consuming process requiring IT departments to test any new software patch before …