With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, especially those that can support a variety of third-party open source firmware projects. One variant, DD-WRT has become a common out-of-the-box option for many routers, but also exists in stand-alone implementations that can be placed on routers that support it. Hundreds of routers can run DD-WRT firmware, inclu
We have several remote offices that are totally dependent on their local Internet connection for the VPN connection back to us for corporate e-mail and VoIP services. I have been asked to look into a backup Internet connection. Any suggestions on what type of connections would be the best to use?
A somewhat apocryphal account on the 'Net describes how the design of the Space Shuttle is in part dependent on the typical dimensions of a horse’s hind end.
My Internet link has been down for the last five days. This is not any kind of tragedy along the lines of what has been happening in New Orleans and the Gulf area, but it did bring home to me how dependent I've become on Internet-based resources for my daily life.
IT has been around in most organizations for 30 to 40 years in some form or other. In the last 10 to 15 years the scale and scope of IT has extended massively, both in the business and domestic world. Most organizations and businesses are now completely and irrevocably dependent on IT and would not last long without it. IT hasn't simply become more essential or important to business; it's a fundamental part of it.
With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, especially those that can support a variety of third-party open source firmware projects. Two of these firmware projects stand apart from the rest: DD-WRT and OpenWrt.
Utility aside, it seems to me that volunteer-dependent sites of this nature are ripe for producing erroneous data, both of the accidental and fraudulent varieties
Once upon a time, in a galaxy close to here, system uptime was pretty much dependent on your answer to two questions: how good were your back-up and recovery services, and how athletic were your operators?
One of my favorite questions for analysts and consultants is what small businesses should learn from big businesses. Let me quote Michael Dortch, long time IT analyst now with the Aberdeen Group, from an interview I did with him last spring: "If you are not entirely dependent on IT to do business and s쳮d competitively now, you will be by the time I'm finished speaking."
For companies increasingly dependent on cloud services, security challenges abound. Here's a collection of articles, columns and audio to help IT security practitioners plot the right course.
Concrete plans for enterprise deployments of voice over wireless LANs seem iffy and potentially dependent on industry progress, according to results from the just-published Webtorials "2005 Wireless LAN State-of-the-Market Report," sponsored this year by Colubris Networks. The report is based on a survey that culled responses from 419 survey-takers worldwide.
German telecos are rolling out new cloud services this week to compete with those from the big U.S. providers. Their selling point is location -- though their “home grown” infrastructure is still dependent on technology from U.S. and Chinese suppliers.
Congress last week reached an agreement on the first piece of federal legislation to curtail spam, marking a coup for e-mail dependent businesses that can continue sending messages until recipients tell them not to.
Draft 2.0 802.11n network performance is dependent on so many variables that it can be challenging to get your head around just what to expect with the next-generation Wi-Fi LAN systems. However, Wi-Fi chipmaker Atheros has shared some ballpark throughput numbers based on hypothetical modeling it has conducted in-house.
The U.S. tech industry has warned that a temporary entry suspension on certain foreign nationals introduced over the weekend by the administration of President Donald Trump will impact these companies' operations that are dependent on foreign workers.
Increasingly dependent on their networks to realize evolving business objectives, companies are looking harder at new service-level management software.
A Boston-area hosting provider briefly knocked several large services and websites dependent on Amazon and AWS offline on Tuesday night, thanks to a configuration error.
Data and communication networks are among the verticals dependent on GPS timing. A report questions the robustness of the mechanism at the civilian level.
Two major emerging network trends, Software-defined networking (SDN) and Internet of Things (IoT), are destined to intersect, with one perhaps dependent on the other.
Mainframe's continuing growth and dominance in mission-critical fields, such as with financial institutions and banking, is attributable to a number of factors, including their unsurpassed transaction power, analytical speed, zero downtime, robust integration, and support for mobile and cloud-dependent platforms.
As business becomes ever more dependent on mobile communications, the cost of keeping employees untethered is soaring. In-Stat MDR estimates that companies will spend $12 billion on wireless services this year. If these expenses aren't being managed well, corporations are probably overpaying.