AT&T income down but mobile business healthy
April 22, 2009AT&T's first quarter income was down 9% on flat revenue but its mobile business -- buoyed by its exclusive iPhone partnership with Apple -- continued to see healthy growth.
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
April 21, 2009IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.
3Com high-end switch: Alternative to Cisco
April 20, 20093Com says it has an alternative for network managers considering high-end switches from Cisco and others.
Hollywood's Victory Over Pirate Bay Will Be Short
April 20, 2009From Sweden, London, to Hollywood, protectors of copyrights are celebrating the conviction of the four men behind the world's most popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay. The four convicted men behind The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom, say they can't and won't pay the $3.6 million in damages and promised the site will continue running. So much for Hollywood's sweet victory and happy ending.
 Smart. It's the new speed. Introducing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series. It adapts to low workloads so you and your servers can use less energy. That’s the new IT intelligence. See why information technology is now intelligent technology. www.intel.com/business/xeon/index.htm |
Sharing USB devices easily
April 18, 2009The scoop: Four-port USB Net ShareStation (model GUIP204), by Iogear, about $85.
Weighing the benefits of onshore outsourcing
April 18, 2009The discussion about outsourcing continues to be an on-again, off-again affair -- that is, onshore and offshore.
CA has top option for cross-platform VM management
April 14, 2009Of the products we compared, CA's NSM/ASM pairing served up the best combination of VM management components. But it wasn't problem free.
Smart. It's the new speed. Introducing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series. It adapts to low workloads so you and your servers can use less energy. That’s the new IT intelligence. See why information technology is now intelligent technology. www.intel.com/business/xeon/index.htm |
VM management: Cross-platform tools fall short
April 14, 2009With the abundance of formidable virtualization platforms on the market today, there ought to be a better way to manage heterogeneous VM farms.
DynamicOps homes in on VM provisioning
April 14, 2009DynamicOps describes its Virtual Resource Management (VRM) tool as a "unified approach to managing both server and desktop virtualization" regardless of the hypervisor platform.
Smart. It's the new speed. Introducing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series. It adapts to low workloads so you and your servers can use less energy. That’s the new IT intelligence. See why information technology is now intelligent technology. www.intel.com/business/xeon/index.htm |
SC-VMM provides limited view of VMware-based VMs
April 14, 2009The final version of SC VMM -- which began shipping in November -- is much improved over the beta code we tested last fall, but it has still got some rough patches in terms of integration with Microsoft's Operations Manager (needed for monitoring and trending) and as supporting non-Windows VMs goes.