Tuesday, July 05, 2011
IT admins gone wild: Four rogues to watch out for Most companies do everything they can to keep news of rogue admins quiet, because the damage to their reputations could be even greater than the havoc wreaked by disgruntled or overzealous geeks
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Cloud Cruiser aims to ease chargeback issue Companies that use the product know how much a workload costs and they know at a granular level who is using that workload and then they can make decisions to optimize costs
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Help Wanted: Waterloo needs an IT director The regional municipality home to some of Canada's biggest tech startups needs someone to lead its own technology transformation. Plus: Four more hot opportunities on Jobs.ITWorldCanada.com
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
After verdict, debate rages in Terry Childs case The guilty verdict in the case of Terry Childs, a former network administrator for the city of San Francisco who was charged with locking up a key city network for days in 2008, is evoking mixed responses within the industry. Some insist he was punished for doing his job, others disagree.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Brace yourself for super admins, HP Canada says As server, storage, and networking infrastructure continue to be more integrated, the need for one overarching admin will be popping up in more data centres across the country, according to an executive with HP Canada
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
PostgreSQL 8.4 released, focus on admin, monitoring Notable enhancements in version 8.4 include parallel database restore for speeding up recovery from backup (by up to eight times), per-column permissions for more granular control of sensitive data and per-database collation support
Thursday, April 16, 2009
OPINION: Is the Web broken or are users too lax? Using incidents like Conficker and Mafiaboy’s denial of service attacks to complain the Internet is broken is like blaming the city works department for making roads that allow bank robbers to escape. 
Monday, January 19, 2009
HP adds orchestration, recovery to its infrastructure manager Insight Orchestration and Insight Recovery allow administrators to automate tasks, says the company, and therefore lower operating costs
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Year in review: The public sector and Web 2.0 Social networking technologies were on governments' radar in 2008. Plus privacy, security, and the strange case of the jailed network admininstrator
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Top 10 Windows 7 features for IT professionals As an IT professional, you might be wondering what Microsoft's replacement for Vista has in store for you. Here's a tour of the 10 potentially coolest professional-oriented Windows 7 features
Monday, August 18, 2008
No excuse for unencrypted laptops If you're not protecting the data on your enterprise's laptops, you're not doing due diligence, says Network World columnist Andreas Antonopoulos
Monday, April 28, 2008
NetGear unveils NAS gear for SMBs Three terabyte desktop storage products are scheduled to ship this year, though an IDC analyst says direct-attached storage is still cheaper. Find out about NetGear’s systems management features
Monday, April 21, 2008
Usability critical for good mobile security The consequences of a data breach can be far-reaching and complex, but in almost every case the cause is simple. An employee, the 'average user', has either taken a shortcut around the security procedures or lost a device with critical data in a public place, or both.
Monday, November 26, 2007
New network skills: Certificate administration The costs of using an external certificate authority can add up, but few companies can afford a dedicated certificate administrator
Monday, July 02, 2007
Windows administrator - a hot job As so many businesses run Microsoft software on their networks, the Windows administrator's role is key to keeping a company's operations running smoothly. In fact, some career experts say the evolution of IT's business role makes this job a possible career path to CIO. 
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
IT staff snoop on confidential user e-mails, study shows IT staff routinely snoop on users, riffling through their e-mails and personal files, a newly released survey has found. 
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Symantec shifts spotlight to data security Viruses and worms are being placed on the backburner as Symantec shifts its focus from device security to protecting information and online interactions with the launch of a new strategy dubbed Security 2.0. 
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
UK gives go-ahead for hacker's extradition to US The U.K. approved an extradition request this week to send a computer hacker to the United States, where he'll be tried for allegedly crippling military networks shortly after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Centeris releases Likewise Management Suite 1.0 Startup Centeris Corp. plans to officially release version 1.0 of its Likewise Management Suite software Tuesday. The company emerged from stealth mode in October with a public beta of Likewise that manages Linux servers in a Microsoft Corp. Windows network.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
CoreGuard the keeper of access keys Keeping data safe is starting to sound like a cliché, thanks to vendors who use the catchphrase but don’t effectively address this very real concern. 
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Microsoft delivers Windows Vista beta After four long years of talking the talk, Microsoft on Wednesday gave the outside world its first official look at its next generation operating system, shipping Beta 1 Release of the recently renamed Windows Vista. 
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Mytob writers could be creating a super bug Virus writers responsible for the recent rash of Mytob worm variants could be working on creating a super worm, a security researcher warned Friday. The "HellBot" group behind the Mytob worms write programming instructions in their code that mirror the way developers work, said Sophos PLC Security Consultant Carole Theriault."The only conclusion we can come up with is that they are working on a big super worm," Theriault said.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Startup gets locked down Imagine the nightmare your company would face if one of its computer hard drives landed in the hands of a competitor. It’s a situation that Feisal Hurzook has been thinking about recently. Hurzook is the chief technical officer of Archronix Corp., a Toronto tech design and integration firm specializing in control systems. He said some of his company’s clients — corporations and political groups for whom data security is paramount — have found themselves in awkward spots when such things befell them. 
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Report: China legalizes use of electronic signatures China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, on Aug. 28 passed a law that legalizes the use of electronic signatures, paving the way to overcome an important obstacle to doing e-commerce in the world's most populous country, according to the official Xinhua News Service.