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  • Estonia defence minister: Cyberattacks will grow

    It is a reality that may return one day in much larger scale in much bigger countries.Others at the conference agreed. Three years after a widespread cyberattack temporarily shut down the Estonian economy, Estonia's defense minister said such…
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Provider • Enforcement • Economy • Defence • Country • Countries

  • Intel aims six core desktop chip at gamers

    The retailer also listed the chip as having 12MB of L3 cache with the capability to scale the clock speed to 3.6GHz.The Core-i7 980X "is an absolute beast," said Kelt Reeves, CEO of Falcon Northwest, a PC maker.
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Targeted • Processing • Gaming • Gamers • Edition • Desktops

  • VMware, Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

    A backup and recovery feature replicates all user customisations in the data centre, and CacheCloud works with any type of direct-attached storage, SAN or NAS products.According to a 451 Group report on Unidesk, the company has developed a highly…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Startup • Reduces • Deployments • Delivery • Data Center • Brodkin

  • Citrix XenApp 6 launches

    XenApp has been verified to scale up to more than 100,000 concurrent users in a single server farm, according to a statement from Citrix.XenApp 6 has also been integrated with Microsoft's App-V, which now can be used to stream applications in a…
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Windows Server • Smartphones • Macs • Department • Centralised • Administrators

  • Internet hit by wave of ransom malware

    Criminals re-used an attack from 2008 to hit the Internet with a huge wave of ransomware in recent weeks, a security company has reported.In the space of only two days, 8 and 9 February, the HTML/Goldun.AXT campaign detected by Fortinet…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Wave • Rogue • Malware • Detected • Campaign • Assumes

  • Copycat China Google hacks are on pace to double this year

    Whoever wants to gain access to these people's computers is very, very serious," Hypponen said.While he has no smoking-gun evidence that China is behind the attacks, tying IP addresses to China and the massive scale and coordination of the attacks…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Phishing • Pdf • Ip Addresses • Governments • Attachments • Attachment

Latest Features

  • How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

    They've done this in order to take advantage of the price and performance benefits of commodity x86 servers.x86 architecture is much higher performing than the proprietary RISC architectures and are often less than 20% the cost of equivalent…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Virtual Machine • Performing • Lowcost • Infoworld • Hypervisor

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Wall Street gets e-bombedNews flash: In what authorities suspect was the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse weapon, a rogue attacker took down much of lower Manhattan today -- causing equipment failures and power outages on a massive scale and…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    Their scale is becoming staggeringly large (see this NYT article on Google's translation application). Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. For as long as there have been computer systems, there have…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Google Go gets the thumbs up from developers

    Peter Bourgon, an independent software developer, wrote "trivial" programs in Go after it was announced, but started on a large scale application in January. Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Stage • Solve • Programming • Languages • Language • Improving

  • Palm ponders survival

    He suggested Palm could go private, and could certainly start aggressively marketing its products abroad, partnering with carriers from other countries.Kevin Burden, an analyst at ABI, said Palm has "very solid devices and a well-done OS, but…
    26 February 2010
    Tags: Wonder • Verizon • Smartphones • Relationships • Carriers • Carrier

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    Businesses are increasingly considering what services-based economics of scale might do to help them reduce infrastructure costs or deploy solutions as-needed and on subscription basis.In other words, Ozzie felt it was high time for Microsoft to…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

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How-Tos

  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    Most Websites, as an unfortunate necessity of large scale, have a "forgot password? Whether your business is a big fish or a small-fry home office, you can get hacked just the same, and the stakes are higher than a few cancelled credit cards.
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Unpatched • Small Businesses • Enterpriseclass • Clicking • Bob • Active Directory

  • How to move your small business to the cloud

    Can the service you're considering scale to meet your needs as your business grows? Cloud computing. For some, the term is wildly nebulous. Not long ago, even Oracle's Larry Ellison publicly asked what the heck people meant by "the cloud.For others…
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Transition • Small Businesses • Small Business • Microsoft Office • Founder • Cloud Computing

  • Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

    As you virtualise more of the data centre, scale and a dynamically changing environment can prove difficult to maintain and control.Bartoletti said, "The number of moving and mobile parts in a virtualised infrastructure is too great for any human…
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Addressed • Production • Strategies • Complexity • Missioncritical

  • How to save your business money on print costs

    The project is on track to save Rent-A-Center over $1 million a year, one third of its annual printing budget, in cartridge expenses alone.Industry watchers say MPS can help companies of all sizes save money, improve uptime and gain efficiencies…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Copying • Productivity • Scale • Printing • Stores • Cost Savings

  • How to track network problems with Wireshark

    As you can imagine, that didnt scale very well. Ethernet networks can run remarkably well for long periods of time, lulling IT admins into a false sense of security. Unfortunately, disaster can strike at anytime, and to the under-equipped, network…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Capture • Protocols • Task • Person • Packet • Admins

  • How to build your own Wikipedia

    It remains to be seen how this technology will scale for active collaboration among very large groups" and across multiple locations. He chose a wiki, a software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online…
    05 January 2010
    Tags: End Users • Management System • Cio • Guidelines • Mention • Edit

Reviews

  • WaterProof Software PHPEdit

    The IDE includes a built-in server, adequate for small scale PHP applications. PHPEdit furnishes all the editing fundamentals: syntax highlighting, Code Insight (code completion), live syntax checking, and code hints.
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Javascript • Insight • Framework • Editing • Documentation • Checking

  • Synology DS1010+ review

    This feature-packed, speedy, and remarkably affordable five-bay storage array supports just about every file sharing protocol available, can scale up to 20TB of raw storage, can be expanded on the fly, and has a great GUI.
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Streaming • Gui • Gigabit Ethernet • Expansion • Backups • Arrays

  • Asus MS236H review

    One case in point is the lack of "scaling" controls, to let you choose whether the monitor should display what the graphics card sends as-is (called a "1:1 ratio"), or scale it up to the entire screen whether by stretching the image or by…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Ratio • Monitors • Lcd • Input • Cable • Asus

  • ViewSonic ViewBook 130 review

    Two finger pinch gesture recognition in particular was slow and awkward in Internet Explorer; not so bad for expanding images in Photo Viewer but still buggy and erratic.Screen quality of the ViewSonic ViewBook 130 is average for the type, a…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Style • Plastic • Notebook • Finger • Battery Life • Air

  • PGP Whole Disk Encryption review

    Also, unlike TrueCrypt, PGP Whole Disk Encryption can scale for networked environments and can be managed using a networked console, the PGP Universal Gateway, which manages the keys and other enterprise aspects of the platform.PGP Whole Disk…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: Scale • Password • Networked • Encrypted • Encrypt • Console

  • Ci Design iStoragePro iT1 Dock 2TB review

    It emulates writing full scale HD, at full colour quality, at a reasonable file size. The lower tier companies in the hard drive market are often forgotten. But sometimes, a dark horse can spring out of nowhere and crash the party.
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Wave • Designs • Hard Drive • Mac Os • Mechanism • Ssd

White Papers

  • Six essential steps to successful IT centralisation

    Better performance, economies of scale, and the opportunity to overhaul working processes to embrace best practice. This report provides some practical insights for CIOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, IT Directors and those involved more closely with the…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Cios • Function • Learn • Boost • Benefits • Centralisation

  • State of the Business Process Management Market 2008

    The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature, early success stories are shared, and enterprise-class vendors bring stability and scale to the market. It is important to remember that BPM is not just about…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Paper • Failed • Growth • Mature • Bpm • Principles

  • Enabling the Virtual Data Centre

    This white paper describes a virtualised infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualisation technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to deploy, manage and scale.
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Achieve • Data Center • Administrators • Server Virtualisation • Storage Virtualisation

  • SOA best practices and design patterns

    Enjoy earlier success without the problems by learning from the experiences of your peers and exploring the standard best practices of large scale technology implementations. What varies most is the time, cost, and ease of SOA implementation.By…
    18 March 2009
    Tags: Soa • Practices • Implementations • Scale • Learning • Oriented

  • Mainframe Migration Case Studies: A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison

    Lowering Cost and Improving Flexibility by Migrating to Open Systems As Open Systems grew in scale, reliability and popularity throughout the 1990s IBM and other vendors ofproprietary mainframe solutions braced for the assault on their dominance…
    20 October 2008
    Tags: Mainframe • Growth • Improving • Strategies • Flexibility • Migrating

  • Massively Scalable NAS

    NAS has in the past fallen short in its ability to scale capacity simply and economically.New technologies now available make extremely scalable NAS available even to IT shops with limited budgets and they offer considerable advantages over more…
    17 September 2008
    Tags: Pre • Attached • Budgets • Nas • Scalability • Scalable

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