Dave Webb

Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

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Traffic shaping brings Net Neutrality debate to a boil

Last week, Howard Solomon's story on ISP reaction to Bell's traffic shaping policies -- the throttling of P2P content whether it's on Bell's own...

Net Neutrality Resource Centre

Recent traffic shaping efforts by Bell have brough the long-simmering issue of Net Neutrality to boil in Canada. Here's a collection of stories and sources on the topic

Fortinet claims ‘breakthrough’ price-performance

The 10-port FortiGate 310B appliance offers mid-sized firms enterprise-calibre options for segmenting their security zones, according to the company -- and throughput at less than a buck per Mbps

OPINION: Wireless carriers entrench with marketing partnerships

The more deals like Rogers' recent Live Nation partnership the incumbents ink, the more insulated they'll be from new competitors

The Green Data Centre: Cards and switches

Reduce the number of switches by increasing the throughput of your I/O

The Green Data Centre: Cooling

Cooling can eat up a third of your data centre power bill. Take advantage of an overlooked natural resource: our cold climate

The Green Data Centre: Storage

Minimize the number of disks to reduce power draw

The Green Data Centre: Virtualization, blades and multicore

Together, these three technologies can have a solid impact on your power draw

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