The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance …
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The feature comes just two days after Gmail went down for a couple of hours worldwide due to a coding …
Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says
Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover …
Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday that the weak economy and declining PC sales would continue to challenge …
Network management vendors land hefty venture funding
Venture capital investors continued confidence in management software makers was displayed Wednesday as Apparent Networks and Aveksa separately reported they …
HP to distribute, support Sun’s Solaris
HP and Sun Microsystems — fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales — unveiled an expanded partnership that will …
Motorola sells Good Technology to Visto
Motorola agreed to sell its Good Technology division for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday, bringing an end to the company's …
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay. Linux provides free and open access to …
Brocade: Recession dampens data-center trials
The ailing economy is leading some enterprises to put off transforming their data-center networks with emerging technologies such as FCoE …
AT&T makes $1 billion ’09 network investment
AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on adding …
Microsoft, Citrix join forces against VMware
Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems Inc. announced today that they have tightened their virtualization partnership to help both companies compete …
Seagate sees datacenter power, SSDs as future priorities
While short on specific details, CEO Stephen Luczo said the company believes it has a competitive advantage with the issue. …
Sun says its new data center will save $1 million a year
Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled a new data center in Broomfield, Colo., the result of the largest — and greenest …
Red Hat debuts virtualization software
Red Hat Inc. today introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting current market leader VMware Inc.'s position …
New cloud-based storage service aimed at inactive data
Iron Mountain announced a cloud-based storage service for data backup uses as part of its digital archiving and storage-as-a-service offerings. …
‘Keep key projects off the chopping block’
There was a joke at the height of the Cold War: What should you do in the event of nuclear …
EMC adds flash to another array
EMC is introducing three storage arrays with options for solid-state disks, and is offering de-duplication and compression of primary storage …
Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
Citrix is making its core virtualization platform free, and announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft to promote interoperability between Citrix’s …
Project management for networking geeks
Network professionals are typically well versed in the technical aspects of networking: router and switch configuration, server deployment and management, …
9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers’ Favorite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is …