There is plenty of hype around 4G technologies but beyond the rhetoric are happening. 4G technologies basically represent the next stage of wireless data technologies and generally deliver average download rates of 3Mbps or greater. In contrast, today's 3G networks typically deliver average download speeds about one-tenth of that rate. Here's a roundup of the latest coverage of the 4G world.
While power and cooling have always been core data center issues, with the price of providing these essentials now rivaling the cost of the computing gear itself, it's time to take a new look.
Stacked files, thousand operations, multiple systems and a million reports. Imagine sitting in the corner office with these 'essentials', running an eye through every single word of every report generated by every possible department in your organization. Sounds like a mammoth exercise? It is.
Microsoft will release a public beta of its free antimalware software, now called Microsoft Security Essentials, formerly "Morro," next Tuesday for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Armed with an anti-malware test report that pits Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2009 against Microsoft's just-released Security Essentials software, a top Symantec engineer ripped into the new consumer anti-malware as an unimpressive re-cycling of Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare technology.
Armed with an anti-malware test report that pits Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2009 against Microsoft's just-released Security Essentials software, a top Symantec engineer ripped into the new consumer anti-malware as an unimpressive re-cycling of Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare technology.
Microsoft's free Security Essentials antivirus software identified 98% of over half a million malware samples, an accuracy rating an independent testing company called "very good" today.
Those of you running hedge funds and getting bonus checks north of $20 million should be nervous about your jobs if you still have them. Those of us in the small business world never had the burden of huge bonuses so we're not panicking as much. On the smaller end of the business scale, money can still be borrowed, and bargains on business essentials can be found everywhere.
Unfortunately for enterprise IT, the fact is that most employees (and their workstations, phones, and all the associated local infrastructure) work in one form or another of branch office. That is, they are remote from central data centers, applications, and IT staff. Some enterprises address this by stripping the branch down to bare essentials - Ethernet and thin clients. For the rest, this dispersal of the enterprise, coupled with the continued increase both in the importance of IT services to daily oper
The good news in all of this is that AT&T today is pared back to its essentials - a focused, high-end enterprise network service provider. The question is if there is any leverage to be gained merging that with SBC. Our guess: not much.
Security products over the past decade have considerably hardened networks and systems exposed to public or other high- or elevated-risk environments. Firewalls have effectively limited connectivity to specific services and protocols, while systems exposed in elevated-risk zones have been streamlined down to their essentials, with discovery and remediation of vulnerabilities and exposures in such environments aggressively maintained on an ongoing basis. Security has been addressed in virtually every aspect
Asked to name what lab equipment they considered essential, many Lab Alliance members mentioned tools from test equipment vendors such as Empirix, Fluke, Ixia and Spirent. But we also got some creative answers, including these.
The first thing to do when going GUI-free is get the essentials—email, word processing, web browsing and instant messaging—set up. Mission accomplished—but it wasn't easy.
Do your hands get sweaty when you have to make changes on your Linux firewall? Iptables isn't as intimidating as it might first seem. After all, it's just a set of tables, and chains, and rules, and the bare essentials of connecting to your server.
Are you someone who never met a Unix command you didn't like? OK, maybe not. But are there commands you just can't imagine living without? Let's look at some that have made a big difference on my busiest days and those that people I've worked with over the years have said are their most important essentials.
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Microsoft's latest addition to its fleet of free applications, Security Essentials, is smaller, fast and efficient, but doesn't offer the wider range of features that security suites do.