Over the last ten years, Fiber Channel has become the standard technology worldwide for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and external …
Looking inside the MPLS network
Visibility into the service providers' networks has always been a bit of a conundrum. The simpler the network, the less …
What do standards mean?
We all know what a meter, hectare, litre, and second mean, but we may not be aware of the standards …
Sun offers integrated Web platform
Sun will roll out a primarily open source Web application platform based on the GlassFish Java application server. The platform, …
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 …
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 …
Cisco’s new 11n gear
The new Aironet 1140 access point uses the same mounting hardware as Cisco's existing Aironet 1250 11n products. But it …
The WAN plan
Is WAN optimisation gaining popularity in the Middle East? What is driving the market? The Middle East market as a …
The ‘n’ stands for now
Without delving too deeply into the past, we all remember the war-driving horror stories: buggy Wired Equivalent Privacy implementations, 802.11b …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
Avaya’s new GM for Saudi
Hani will be responsible for the daily management and reporting on all areas of Avaya’s activities in Saudi Arabia. Mr. …
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 …
Nortel still signing up customers
Nortel has signed up “hundreds” of new customers since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection three weeks ago, and is …
Top 10 spam-friendly registrars named and shamed
Spam-fighting organization KnujOn has released a report on the top 10 registrars it has linked to spam and other illicit …
Terabit Ethernet is next
Danish and Australian researchers have developed a chip that efficiently reads 640Gbps optical transmissions and could help pave the way …
Nortel still signing up customers
Nortel has signed up “hundreds” of new customers since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection three weeks ago, and is …
‘IT security jobs largely untouched’
Information security jobs may not be the most glamorous ones in the technology industry. But at least they appear to …
Trends that will change our lives
The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first …
Juniper debuts multi-chassis routing system
Juniper Networks has introduced the TX Matrix Plus, a multi-chassis core routing system that enables service providers to deliver innovative …