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  • Software bloat causes PC waste, says green study

    The principal solution to the problem of PC e-waste is for developers and marketers to stop using strategies that contribute to bloat and enforced upgrading," said Swann.Swann said the introduction of an industry standard that "discourages such a…
  • Zeus botnet malware is improving for hackers

    A signal is given to the botnet controller, and a highly automated transfer can be made into accounts the attacker desires.There are many stories starting to appear of companies complaining about unauthorized ACH transfers, or fake employees…
  • Paperless office still a pipe dream

    Even when documents are sent off to be scanned for archiving, 25% are photocopied beforehand "just in case," the survey found.We are at last in a situation where electronic archiving of records is efficient, effective and can save huge amounts of…
  • Oracle Exadata database engine to integrate Flash storage

    The second iteration of Oracle's Exadata database engine will feature flash storage embedded within the server machine, eliminating the need to source data from storage disks and cutting query processing time significantly, a company executive…
  • Average person in UK owns £3,000 of gadgets

    Sky said the 'gadget gap' or the difference between the amount spent on gadgets and the value of the function they actually use on those devices amounts to £52bn.The research also revealed that Brits are not tech savvy as they might have hoped.
  • Investigation software snoops through social networks

    Working with a consortium of universities, the company has used Hone to sift through massive amounts of public information. Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet…

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Or they could simply target large domains with huge amounts of traffic, or create havoc by messing with the Net's time servers.What could happen: The Internet appears to be down, even though it's not.
  • SQL and relational databases: They're not right for the cloud

    The requirement to process huge amounts of data in the cloud is leading to new approaches to database processing, based on older models. The data processing requirements of cloud computing is causing many to leave SQL and relational databases…
  • Managing networks is still about problem solving

    Among the 100 pairs of firewalls that found a home at Virgin Media, just less than 70% were Check Point, with the remainder mostly Cisco PIX, which were being migrated over to Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) since PIX was headed to its…
  • Apple iPad offers IT department opportunities

    Data retrieval is also a strong suit, it provides quick access to document, image, audio or video libraries, doing away with the need for storing large amounts of paper. Martin Bailey argues the iPad will find its way into the enterprise and CIOs…
  • Buy an expensive SAN to save money

    The result: massive amounts of inefficiency and over-specification, both characteristics of DAS environments.If it's true that we're overbuying, why can't we just purchase less? The benefits of SANs (storage area networks) sound tantalising…
  • The future of IT application architectures

    The remarkable decrease in the cost of IT brought about by cloud computing will — no surprise to economics majors everywhere — lead to much larger amounts of computing being done, which, in its turn, will lead to larger application architectures…
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    In the case of business banking, by stealing in amounts under $10,000 from business accounts, online fraudsters have managed to avoid triggering traditional fraud alerts. Business banking is a popular target for hacks and attacks.
  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    Use content delivery networksFor handling large amounts of media -- such as iTunes music or Amazon.com and Netflix video-on-demand services -- the public Internet relies heavily on CDN (content delivery network) providers such as Limelight and…
  • How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

    Not only do they demand the storage of vast amounts of data, but also that it may be accessed on-demand.On top of this, the requirement to monitor unstructured data such as emails, instant messaging (IM) conversations, voice recordings and most…
  • How to virtualise SQL Server

    That said, a lot of servers can be fully provisioned on high spec equipment running ESX.There are some important areas to understand when considering moving onto VMware, chief among these are CPU, memory and disks.For the purposes of this…
  • Case Study: The sweet smell of WAN acceleration

    Coty didn't need to expand network capacity to handle exploding amounts of video and other multimedia data, he said. Global perfumer Coty used WAN appliances to improve its download speeds and remove the need for caching servers.
  • Connecting two buildings to one broadband service

    They can use a copper pair to create what amounts to a private DSL connection between both ends to give you a pretty decent connection speed - and without the monthly cost of a second broadband connection for the second building (while putting in…

Reviews

  • DLR Vantage MM550GE review

    Running at 3.1GHz, this offers copious amounts of processing power for its modest outlay, and propels the Vantage to a pleasing WorldBench score of 113 - only one point off the sizzling Arbico Phenom 5570HD.The X2 255 doesn't have the quad-core…
  • Final Fantasy XIII review

    To that end, the lack of grinding does put the plot of Final Fantasy XIII very much in-your-face.Thankfully, at least it's a decent story about a group of individuals who become cursed with what amounts to a magical STD and then go on a quest to…
  • QNAP TS-239 Pro Turbo review

    IT professionals or people in charge of large amounts of data in the workplace will appreciate this. Add the TS-239 Pro Turbo to your network: an NAS drive with a ton of features. If youre an audio, video or IT professional or have prosumer-level…
  • ActiveState Komodo review

    This amounts to connecting a PHP debugging session in one window and a JavaScript debugging session in another window to the same applications. In addition, Komodo is OS agnostic; it can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
  • Encryption software group test

    Encryption software group test Frank Ohlhorst Three encryption apps keep your data safe review,reviews Laptop computers have become mobile stores of massive amounts of information. Mobile computing means the possibility of loss or theft.
  • TrueCrypt review

    Also, TrueCrypt used negligible amounts of CPU time, as little as 2% or 3% of processor utilization.TrueCrypt offers a couple of interesting additional features, such as the ability to create a virtual encrypted volume that is mounted as a drive…

White Papers

  • Advanced compressions with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    Further fueling the exponential trend in data growth is the advent of Web 2.0, with collaborative applications that encourage enormous amounts of user-generated content. Mass distribution of rich and multimedia content over the Internet, made…
  • From Chaos to Order- Winning the Information Management Game

    Oracle APEX: A Complete Web Application Developers Toolbox Businesses and organizations possess enormous amounts of knowledge, information, and wisdom about the work they do, often even more than they know.
  • Make internet risks and perils disappear

    Network administrators spend inordinate amounts of time deleting persistent malware, advising victimized users, restoring corrupted data files and otherwise cleaning up messes. The bad guys spend 24 hours a day cooking up malicious Internet Web…
  • Oracle Advanced Compression

    Recent changes in the regulatory landscape, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA, are contributing to this trend by mandating that enterprises retain vast amounts of information for long periods of time. Further fuelling the exponential trend in data…
  • How information on demand can give an competitive edge

    Most enterprises have large amounts of information stuck in a disparate forms within an organisation and across multiple repositories. Discover how to make use of information to gain an advantage. This paper offers some helpful advice.
  • Business Intelligence for Decision Makers

    To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications that will allow cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and…
 
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