Monday, August 09, 2010
VMware launches software to crack app problems The company says Hyperic 4.4 will provide greater visibility into virtualized environments
Monday, October 27, 2008
PDC - Microsoft unveils Windows Azure cloud computing platform The service-based operating environment competes with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud as a scalable hosting and development platform, says Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant The IT industry is now preparing for a new round of upheaval as a result of SaaS adoption of offerings from the likes of Google (with its Google Apps) and Salesforce.com that let users run applications via the Internet
Monday, June 09, 2008
Free public Wi-Fi in Harvard Square launched by businesses, city As home to one of the world's top universities, Harvard Square normally hosts the exchange of ideas, but can now host the exchange of data, too. Last week a number of businesses and organizations partnered to launch free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard "coming along beautifully" Work on the proposed protocol could come to first vote in June, says committee chair
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Japan ahead of US on high-speed Internet access front The Washington Post last month ran an article on "Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future," in which it paints an impressive picture of the current and future state of residential Internet service in Japan, while not saying much good about what has been happening in the United States.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Patience pays off for utility Some IT projects take a long time to come to fruition. The campaign to get Newfoundland Power to switch to a virtualized environment for its office, ERP and billing systems took half a decade.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
KVM 15 equipped with live migration Xen has been the hot topic in the paravirtualization area for some years now -- the first "stable" release was announced in 2003 -- but the code remains outside of the mainline Linux kernel. 
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Creating the high-performing company When speaker Bill Morris, Country Managing Director for Accenture, took to the podium before a record crowd at the Toronto Board of Trade recently, he began by apparently biting the hand that was feeding him – and everyone else at the Technology Innovators Series breakfast.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
ECS agents shield against unknown The only truly secure computer is one that’s unplugged and buried in a hole six feet deep — or so it’s been said. Unfortunately, you can’t disconnect and bury your servers to keep them safe. You can, however, move access control from the user domain to the device domain. Anyone can punch in a user name and password and gain access to a secure resource, but if a device must be checked out and approved in order to connect to a host, you’re in control of who accesses your network.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
IT gets lost in control fog Once upon a time, IT people worried about keeping systems running. Auditors worried about financial statements. The twain rarely met. Then along came the Internet, which begat IT security and privacy requirements. Then fell Enron, which begat compliance requirements. Now auditors worry about systems. IT people worry about auditing. Worlds are colliding. People are not happy. 
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
New tools link legacy to Web Vendors such as Attachmate, WRQ Inc. and NetManage Inc. are trying to meet demand for tools that can help developers take internally facing applications and expose them to external users without having to touch the mainframe code.
Monday, August 16, 2004
Microsoft readies Host Integration Server 2004 In a continued effort to compete with IBM Corp. and its WebSphere offerings, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced imminent availability of Host Integration Server 2004.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Telecommunications briefs Speak freely; Price hike approved; Allstream plays host
Sunday, April 11, 2004
French Senate gives digital economy bill second reading The French Senate began its second reading of a piece of legislation entitled a Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy on April 8. 
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Users build iSCSI momentum Storage-area networks that use the Internet SCSI protocol are gaining acceptance with corporate IT as a supplement to — or a complete replacement for — Fibre Channel SANs.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Maxxan eases storage virtualization Just as Ethernet networking devices have evolved from straightforward hubs to layer 2 switches to layer 7 application-aware switches, so are SAN switches evolving.
Friday, October 17, 2003
CommVault rolls out data-protection software CommVault Systems Inc. last week launched a management tool and enhancements to two software packages to help users archive and preserve their storage data.
Friday, October 03, 2003
Motorola to release new processor Motorola Inc. announced a new applications processor last month that is designed to improve the performance of multimedia applications and the security of mobile transactions in cell phones and PDAs.
Monday, July 21, 2003
Startup rolls out provisioning, virtualization app Startup Candera Inc. this week rolled out an appliance that links Fibre Channel storage arrays and server-attached storage to form a heterogeneous pool of resources that can be provisioned from one spot.
Monday, March 31, 2003
Al-Jazeera hobbled by DDOS attack The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against its English and Arabic language Web sites on Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
TI readies recharger-on-a-chip Texas Instruments Inc. has announced a new line of chips that can combine battery-recharging capabilities for portable devices with a USB port, enabling smaller, less expensive, and more versatile gadgets.
Thursday, September 26, 2002
IBM bolsters WebSphere Host Integration Trying to help users get more out of their existing legacy applications by exploiting the latest in Web services technologies, IBM Corp. has rolled out a new version of its WebSphere Host Integration software.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
IPv4 is likely to stay put for a while longer in North America Back in 1981, the IETF introduced what is now commonly known as IP version 4, the next step in the development of the Internet.