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  • North Korea develops own operating system

    The North Korean government appears to have developed its own graphical Linux-based "Red Star" operating system, though its people still prefer that symbol of Yankee high-tech imperialism, Microsoft Windows.That's according to the blog of a…
    04 March 2010

  • Force10 Networks files for $144m IPO

    Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Barclays Capital. Ethernet switching company Force10 Networks filed for a $144 million IPO. Ethernet switching company Force10 Networks this week filed for a $144 million IPO.The amount of shares and the price were not…
    03 March 2010

  • Cisco invests in virtualisation security start-up HyTrust

    Cisco and several other investors have given $10.5 million to HyTrust, a start-up that is tackling some of the thornier security problems posed by the growing popularity of VMware's virtualisation platform.HyTrust won "Best of Show" at last year's…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Vmware • Unified • Investment • Hypervisor • Capital • Administrators

  • Chip makers work on 28nm processors

    Altera says the chips and some of its own innovations are needed for a range of new computing trends that require high bandwidth, such as high-definition video, cloud computing, online data storage and mobile video.Equipment developers need to…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Production • Producing • Manufacturing • Lines • Gear • Attract

  • Microsoft Hyper-V add-on speeds up virtual data centres

    Crutchfield is running 225 virtual machines on 11 servers.I was concerned about how it would do for large numbers of virtual machines for large periods of time," he says, but the results were "pretty impressive.Virsto is operating with $8.25…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Virtualised • Storage Systems • Copies • Consumption • Centres • Addon

  • IBM buys network automation vendor Intelliden

    By acquiring this automation technology, IBM aims to help clients improve network service availability, decrease risk through compliance reporting and improve staff efficiency.Intelliden's software is used by telecom companies, service providers…
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Tivoli • Configuration • Cloudbased • Automation • Acquisition • Acquired

Latest Features

  • Mobile developers get ready for 4G data explosion

    Rather, developers are more likely to wait until 4G technology is ubiquitous before investing capital into creating more high powered applications. With 4G networks due to hit the mass market over the next two years, some application developers are…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Streaming • Smartphones • Smartphone • Microsoft Office • Country • Connections

  • Five worst virtualisation speed traps

    High-bandwidth network connections, fiber rather than copper, for example, and powerful SAN gear make far more sense than saving a few bucks in capital costs upfront, he says.We went into this [migration] with the goal of saving costs, initially…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Demands • Responsibility • Saving • Virtualization • Trouble • Demanding

  • Hot topics and dead ends for 2010

    With compute charges of 40 cents an hour, no capital costs, quick setup times and quick teardown times, these services provide attractive test and development environments.The downside of cloud services in broad terms is that they are built and…
    05 January 2010
    Tags: Facing • Isps • Data Centres • Instant Messaging • Agents • Purchasing

  • The new shape of data centres

    There could be a reason to be within a certain distance from a data centre because some applications work with a particular latecy but managers have to ask what application has the biggest impact, it could be that software costing £5000 could have…
    09 December 2009
    Tags: Audience • Shape • Data Centres • Carbon • Interest • Governments

  • Cisco data centre guru on IPv6, virtualisation and strategy

    Companies crunched for capital begin to look at near term cap-ex and sometimes lose focus on long term op-ex. As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and General Manager of Cisco's Data Center Switching and Services Group…
    03 November 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Perspective • Data Center • Virtual Machines • Migrate • Incremental

  • Top 10 open source apps for Apple Mac OS

    Then there's Boxee, a venture capital funded startup that wants to help you share your video and music consumption with your close and personal friends. Most Mac lovers love the Mac for the carefully wrought user interfaces and the crisp design…
    15 October 2009
    Tags: Mac Os • Readers • Repository • Mechanism • Relationships • Friends

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How-Tos

  • How to fix the most common Internet problems

    Save for the one guy who got bad customer service and awarded one star (and ranted in all capital letters), user reviews inevitably land in the four- to five-star range. In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to worry about auto-playing video ads…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Friends • Engines • Bar • Ads • Addon • Ad

  • How to write good passwords

    Computers can run through a dictionary attack in no time flat.Step 2: Replace some lowercase letters with capital letters, numbers or symbols. A good password isn't a password at all. Instead, it's a system for creating codes that are easy to…
    15 December 2009
    Tags: Accounts • Letter • Passwords • Creating • Yahoo • Crack

  • How social networking is key to job searches

    That helps build what Harms calls "social capital". When Wade Vann, former CIO at Simmons Bedding, was laid off in the summer of 2008, it was naturally a difficult time. When you've been working 60 to 70 hours a week and that goes away, it's a big…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Perspective • Searches • Leads • Cio • Transition • Interviews

  • How to cut costs through the supply chain

    The effort to lower inventory levels to free up working capital has proved so effective that the Black Reilly Auto Parts in Montana uses inventory as a competitive differentiator, says Greg Beck, vice president of purchasing.
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Flow • Optimisation • Visibility • Signals • Inventory • Investments

  • Predict Wi-Fi performance and plan your wireless LAN

    Whenever I plan and configure an enterprise WLAN system, I always advise that an additional 10 percent to 20 percent of the capital budget be reserved for expansion and filling in holes in coverage or capacity that couldn't be anticipated during…
    19 September 2008
    Tags: Radio • Coverage • Elements • Trial • Advance • Craig

  • Assembling a 'Network A-Team'

    Rather, he says, IT shops can look a bit closer to home to find the technology, as well as the human capital they need to assemble a team of all-star staff to tackle the environment's 20 top network and application-performance issues.
    19 May 2008
    Tags: House • Human • Capital • Skills • Experts • Oriented

Reviews

  • DriveClone Pro review

    Small as these problems may be, when we trust a program to do our backing up, we want it Bulletproof with a capital "B".Like Norton's imaging products, the Windows version of DriveClone Pro can't run on systems with less that 512MB of memory - a…
    14 January 2009
    Tags: Restore • Automatic • Threat • Recovery • Imaging • Partition

  • TomTom XL review

    Six months later, however, and with the addition of thousands, if not millions, of road hours to the TomTom data banks, this feature works very effectively indeed.Intelligent laning information verbally delivers instructions about which part of…
    29 August 2008
    Tags: Intelligent • Satellite • Portal • Road • Route • Navigation

  • Toshiba M700-110 review

    A versatile convertible laptop and tablet PC that's well-tuned to the needs of business users Since the Tablet PC (with a capital T) appeared in 2002, weve seen various slate models come and go - but perhaps the more interesting version is the…
    23 May 2008
    Tags: Reader • Productivity • Battery Life • Input • Toshiba

  • Vodafone USB Modem Stick review

    Plus, installation is a breeze – XP and Vista users will find that drivers install automatically, so they'll be connected in no time.However, it's the download speeds that most people will be interested in.Actual 3G speeds rarely match…
    02 April 2008
    Tags: Coverage • Edge • Adaptor • Visit • Modem • Business Advisor

  • Genius PF-A01 digital photo frame review

    With several poorly labelled buttons operating the same functions and others still gone AWOL - the Genius makes a big fuss with a capital 'B' to signify brightness, but is unconcerned about other display settings - the PF-A01's…
    06 March 2008
    Tags: Music • Display • Videos • Playback • Images • Frames

  • Chumby web-browsing device review

    The onscreen keyboard is innovative, but not always easy to use: it consists of one row of capital letters, one row of lowercase letters, and one row of numbers. Until now, most web-browsing devices have been too hobbled, too limited, or just too…
    04 March 2008
    Tags: Radio • Station • Browsing • Keyboard • Play • Row

White Papers

  • Thin provisioning

    The result is a dramatic reduction in capital and operating expense, and much greater cost control relative to project outcome. Balancing new project demands and limited IT resources is the challenging, often thankless, job of IT management.
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Thin Provisioning • Efficiency • Assigned • Allocated • Achieve

  • Business service efficiency: The key to green IT and profitability

    Learn how to use what you have already without buy new hardware to realise greater improvement in service and a greater reduction in operations costs and capital expenses. Data centres consume more energy than any other environment in most companies.
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Energy • Efficiency • Centers • Capital • Broader • Addresses

  • Innovative economies: A global comparison

    The Innovation Capacity Index measures a broad array of factors, policies, and institutions that contribute to strengthen innovation in 131 countries, including their institutional environment, their human capital endowment and the presence of…
    08 December 2009
    Tags: Communication • Innovation • Capital • Index • Array • Boost

  • Enabling agile and intelligent businesses

    Attain improved efficiency in terms of utilisation of IT assets and human capital through business process automation and increased agility through agile, adaptable, rules-driven business processes. Changing markets, competitive pressures and…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Efficiency • Agility • Flexibility • Business Processes • Agile

  • Why CIOs should look to data deduplication

    These products offer benefits to more than just the storage group because they cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualisation-related storage costs.
    23 November 2009
    Tags: Consolidation • Data Protection • Capital • Benefits • Data Deduplication

  • Unlocking the benefits of Google Apps

    Yet, during a time of economic downturn, the need to cut costs by eliminating or replacing inefficient, expensive or rarely used applications is vital.This is exactly why Capgemini has created a focused solution that enables clients to massively…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: Exchange • Migrating • Google Apps • Capgemini • Mail

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