There are numerous ways Mac sysadmins can secure workstations, says columnist Ryan Faas. From limiting access to certain applications and systems preferences to setting proper permissions for users, the goal is the same: Make sure your data is protected.
Gunning for markets that have long been the domain of RISC-based systems, Intel yesterday delivered updated Itanium 2 processors with larger memory caches.
Job boards still list some openings related to Hewlett-Packard's discontinued HP e3000 systems. But there appear to be many more people looking for such jobs than there are jobs to be had.
Neil Knox, Sun's executive vice president of volume systems products, and Dirk Meyer, AMD's senior vice president of computational products, explained what customers can expect.
A growing midrange storage market and the plummeting cost of disk drive technology drove higher sales of external disk storage systems in 2004, according to research firm IDC
Taking aim at the Symbian and BlackBerry operating systems, it will feature a new mobile version of Office Communicator that includes instant messaging on public and private networks.
The new IBM Power5 eServer i5 550 also features higher performance and new virtualization capabilities that allow it to run multiple operating systems at once on separate partitions.
Although the technology has been available to IBM's mainframe users for years, its new Virtualization Engine is the result of a three-year program to bring those capabilities to other IBM systems, including storage devices.
IBM today announced a new line of Power5 Unix and Linux servers, designed to provide users with a mainframelike ability to virtualize their systems at the processor level.
Jeff Clarke, a senior vice president who is responsible for Dell's servers and other enterprise products, said in an interview that the company's packaging prowess makes it a technology innovator and that it doesn't see the need to use AMD's Opteron processor in systems.
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Data in the Department of the Interior systems went from being exposed online to completely cut off from the Internet in a matter of days, as the result of a U.S. District Court order.
IBM and Cisco Systems unveiled product updates that will link technology from the two companies more closely together to protect customer networks from security threats.
Attendees at Gartner's annual data center conference said mixed collections of mainframes and other systems remain the norm, with only 4% of the respondents to an electronic poll indicating that they exclusively run Unix or Windows servers.
Big-ticket business continuity systems worked during the blackout, but IT managers said it was often the least obvious things that slowed recovery efforts.
As Hurricane Isabel approached North Carolina last week, IT managers in that state and others in the mid-Atlantic region rushed to make sure that their systems and telecommunications lines could withstand the storm.
Q&A: Bill Vass, CIO at Sun Microsystems, says that his IT staff is working on two big projects this year: the development of an internal computer grid that can salvage unused desktop CPU cycles and the consolidation of three ERP systems.
Unisys Corp., which helped create the IT infrastructure for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration in 2002, has won a new IT services contract to help the agency continue its efforts to protect the nation's transportation systems.