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December 27, 2007 27Dec2007 News

Kris Kringle's guide to Mobility

Many see mobility as the next step from VoIP. It was hot in 2007, and it will remain so in 2008. So get some reading done before the new year comes in. Continue Reading

December 20, 2007 20Dec2007 News

Santa's great storage grudge-match: Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI

Attaching storage to a network used to be so simple - now you have a number of options and no way to decide! We've got your back. Continue Reading

December 20, 2007 20Dec2007 News

Holiday IPv6 reading guide

IPv6 was a controversial topic in 2007, and for good reason. Learn more in our holiday guide to IPv6. Continue Reading

December 20, 2007 20Dec2007 News

Christmas open source guide

2007 say a boatload of open source VoIP offerings. Read all about that, plus more, in our holiday open source hamper. Continue Reading

December 20, 2007 20Dec2007 News

Wireless Christmas hamper

Wireless is all the rage. But it's not easy to do, or do well. Get some holiday guidance with our collection of guides. Continue Reading

December 19, 2007 19Dec2007 News

Web conferencing: Adoption grows and evolution continues

As one of the key technologies of unified communications, web conferencing will continue to grow, adding application-sharing and video elements. Continue Reading

December 18, 2007 18Dec2007 Tip

Best practices for instant messaging security

In this tip, Brien Posey details the steps you can take to protect your organisation from security problems when implementing an instant messaging system. Continue Reading

December 18, 2007 18Dec2007 News

IMS: Moving from legacy to convergence

This chapter download discusses migration plans to move service providers to IMS in well-planned, business-savvy phases. Continue Reading

December 17, 2007 17Dec2007 News

Server power consumption rises unabated

A new AMD-sponsored study paints a grim picture of worldwide data centre power use, but there are simple ways to decrease consumption. Continue Reading

December 16, 2007 16Dec2007 News

VoIP sales up; Cisco admits security hole; Sipera releases top five vulnerabilities list

This week's news featured VoIP sales increasing, Cisco admitting a serious security hole, and the year's top five VoIP security holes. Continue Reading

December 13, 2007 13Dec2007 News

Virtualisation provides utilisation and IT efficiency boost

Yorkshire-based Raleys Solicitors has solved a space problem in its computer room by using virtualisation technology. Continue Reading

December 11, 2007 11Dec2007 News

How to be future-ready for IP telephony

IP telephony confidence comes from being future-ready and having a scalable network that can adapt to new market trends. Continue Reading

December 11, 2007 11Dec2007 News

Cisco Trusted Security to boost network security, management

Cisco's Trusted Security (TrustSec) hardens network security while easing some management. Continue Reading

December 11, 2007 11Dec2007 News

San adoption cuts costs and power

Advanced storage driving datacentre area and energy consumption reduction Continue Reading

December 07, 2007 07Dec2007 News

EC to use mobile phones to track carbon footprints

New application allows users to see how their daily choices impact climate change in terms of the major greenhouse gases Continue Reading

December 06, 2007 06Dec2007 Tip

Building a UC strategy

To create a UC strategy, you must first understand your current business processes and incorporate your business partners into the strategy. Continue Reading

December 03, 2007 03Dec2007 News

Voice over wireless LAN deployment requires constant maintenance

Learn how to monitor, troubleshoot and maintain your voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) deployment. Continue Reading

December 02, 2007 02Dec2007 News

Confused about unified communications?

Can you define unified communications, or are you still trying to find a common vendor definition? Gary Audin sheds some light on the vendor meaning of UC. Continue Reading

November 27, 2007 27Nov2007 News

Enterprise collaboration tools from consumer market

Consumer-based collaboration tools are finding their way into the enterprise. IT departments can fight the trend, give up and ignore it, or embrace it. Continue Reading

November 26, 2007 26Nov2007 News

Ofcom fines broadband provider

Ofcom has fined broadband provider Prodigy £30,000 for failing to comply with requirements to provide information on how it allows customers to switch broadband provider. Continue Reading

November 22, 2007 22Nov2007 News

Security's dirty little secret

When Simon Sharwood met AVG's Larry Bridwell, he learned the security industry's dirty little secret. Continue Reading

November 21, 2007 21Nov2007 News

Making the case for FCIP and FCoE

FC over IP and FC over Ethernet let companies begin consolidating on one network platform as opposed to maintaining separate FC and Ethernet networks. Continue Reading

November 21, 2007 21Nov2007 News

Making the case for FCIP and FCoE

FC over IP and FC over Ethernet let companies begin consolidating on one network platform as opposed to maintaining separate FC and Ethernet networks. Continue Reading

November 21, 2007 21Nov2007 News

Experts: Privacy and security officers living in silos

To better deal with the data breach threat, industry experts say security and privacy officers must break out of their silos and work as a team. Continue Reading

November 20, 2007 20Nov2007 Tip

Voice quality and MOS

Defining the nine elements of voice quality and Mean Opinion Score (MOS), the standard numeric value used to measure and report on voice quality. Continue Reading

November 20, 2007 20Nov2007 News

Unified communications considerations for 2008

Unified communications (UC) created awareness and confusion in 2007. Next year, UC will reach the masses and be used to its full potential. Continue Reading

November 20, 2007 20Nov2007 Blog Post

Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project

In this blog entry the two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium of suppliers, led by services ... Continue Reading

November 19, 2007 19Nov2007 News

ITIL -- What network managers need to know

This tip helps network managers about implement IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and explains how it can be beneficial to networking. Continue Reading

November 19, 2007 19Nov2007 In Depth

Wi-Fi linked to childhood autism

A study published this week in the Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine warns that wireless communication technology may be responsible for accelerating the rise in autism among children. Continue Reading

November 18, 2007 18Nov2007 News

IMS Report Card: IMS Forum issues first IMS reality check

The first IMS Report Card from the IMS Forum offers a reality check on the hype and myths surrounding IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployment. Continue Reading

November 16, 2007 16Nov2007 News

Redundancy tracker

November 15, 2007 15Nov2007 News

Wireless LAN performance

Benchmarking your wireless LAN performance is tricky. This tip examines key issues and offers advice for effectively measuring your WLAN performance. Continue Reading

November 14, 2007 14Nov2007 News

Home Office awards £650m e-Borders contract

The Home Office has awarded its £650m eBorders contract to a consortium led by Raytheon Systems. Continue Reading

November 14, 2007 14Nov2007 News

Defining unified communications

Read how industry pundits are defining unified communications. Continue Reading

November 13, 2007 13Nov2007 News

Network access control server eases guest access

Cisco Network Admission Control Guest Server was released today to help ease guest access and prepare for a larger network access control (NAC) rollout. Continue Reading

November 12, 2007 12Nov2007 News

More ICT scholarships inbound

Scholarships for the IT industry totalling a value of $250,000 will be available at the beginning of the coming academic year, it was announced last week. Continue Reading

November 12, 2007 12Nov2007 News

More ICT scholarships inbound

Scholarships for the IT industry totalling a value of $250,000 will be available at the beginning of the coming academic year, it was announced last week. Continue Reading

November 12, 2007 12Nov2007 Tip

Why you need VoIP to move to unified communications

Making the move to unified communications is an intricate five-step process that requires a solid foundation. Continue Reading

November 12, 2007 12Nov2007 News

How to integrate iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and make it work

Learn about eight best practices for integrating iSCSI into a Fibre Channel SAN, as well as best deployment practices for iSCSI. Continue Reading

November 11, 2007 11Nov2007 News

Integrating edge assets into networks can cut costs

Proper management of edge assets in a network saves money and time while avoiding headaches. Continue Reading

November 11, 2007 11Nov2007 News

IPTV Crash Course: Chapter 3: The Technology of IP Networks

IPTV service utilises basic IP network technology to broadcast television using the internet. Continue Reading

November 07, 2007 07Nov2007 News

Configuring VLANs

Learn how to configure a virtual LAN (VLAN) in this step-by-step, automated, 15-minute demo. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 In Depth

Managed VoIP keeps regatta's communications afloat

The world's largest rowing regatta utilises managed VoIP to ease its year-round communications needs -- and for a temporary system during its celebrated two-day event. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

Users leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI Sans find pros, cons

Users who recently updated aging Fibre Channel equipment with new iSCSI San products have found ease of use can be a double-edged sword. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

Adaptec reports losses

Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 In Depth

Integrating San and Nas

Sas and Nas systems are very different types of storage, with different features that serve different business needs. Here are eight best practices for integrating San and Nas. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 In Depth

How to select a storage capacity planning tool

To select a storage management and capacity planning tool, first calculate how much storage is available and how much of your total storage capacity is actually being used. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 In Depth

How data deduplication works

Chapter one of our data deduplication handbook takes you under the hood to show how data deduplication works so you can maximise the efficiency of this data reduction technology. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

Cisco upgrades Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switches

Cisco today released updates to its modular Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switch series to add more capacity, scalability and redundancy. Continue Reading

November 06, 2007 06Nov2007 News

LeftHand adds hardware to iSCSI SANs

LeftHand makes its iSCSI SAN software available on two prepackaged appliances; sources indicate the hardware comes from Dell. Continue Reading

November 05, 2007 05Nov2007 News

Google announces open source operating system for smartphones

After months of speculation, Google has officially announced Android, an mobile devices OS it's developing in partnership with a wide variety of companies. Continue Reading

November 04, 2007 04Nov2007 News

Broaden broadband debate: Comms Alliance

The Communications Alliance has joined the chorus of voices calling for election candidates to broaden the scope of their broadband plans. Continue Reading

November 01, 2007 01Nov2007 News

ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products. Continue Reading

November 01, 2007 01Nov2007 News

Riverbed adds disaster recovery features to WAFS

A new version of Riverbed's software will sense when users are doing massive restores over the Wan and optimise traffic accordingly, the company says. Continue Reading

November 01, 2007 01Nov2007 News

Network design: Five ways to lower your costs

Learn how to lower network operating costs without sacrificing utility in this tip on designing a low-cost network. Continue Reading

November 01, 2007 01Nov2007 News

NPfIT went ahead after prime minister had 10-minute briefing

A former Whitehall official has revealed that he and his colleagues were given 10 minutes to make the case to the prime minister over what became the world's biggest civil IT-based modernisation programme. Continue Reading

November 01, 2007 01Nov2007 News

MPLS implementation gotchas

Eliminate network latency, without locking into an SLA with a bad service provider, by controlling and implementing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). Continue Reading

October 31, 2007 31Oct2007 In Depth

Vanderbilt hospital fights archive growth with grid

Vanderbilt University Medical Centre simplifies document management using Bycast's archiving grid system. Continue Reading

October 31, 2007 31Oct2007 News

Unified communication applications for businesses with remote workers

Bill Trussell decodes the unified communications (UC) ciphers for you and makes a UC recommendation. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30Oct2007 News

EMC's Tucci vows to keep up with new features

EMC CEO says storage giant is widening its technology net to match innovations of smaller competitors. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30Oct2007 News

Riverbed posts profit, but stock slips

Riverbed reports higher sales, but its stock fell 25% on a poor rating from financial analysts. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30Oct2007 News

Microsoft's OCS is finally here, for better or for worse

Zeus Kerravala reports on the long-awaited Microsoft OCS launch. Find out the pros and cons of OCS. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30Oct2007 News

Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30Oct2007 News

Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting work flow and business processes, a new study has revealed. Continue Reading

October 29, 2007 29Oct2007 News

Unified communications platform gets SMB twist

While unified communications has eluded the SMB market, Siemens has released an all-in-one UC appliance specifically for the SMB. Continue Reading

October 29, 2007 29Oct2007 News

NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

NetApp is continuing a push down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line. Continue Reading

October 29, 2007 29Oct2007 News

Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI SAN

NetApp is continuing a push down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line. Continue Reading

October 28, 2007 28Oct2007 News

Advanced data storage final exam

Are you up to date on advanced data storage technologies? Take our final exam and evaluate your knowledge of advanced data storage. This final exam isn't for the weak. Continue Reading

October 28, 2007 28Oct2007 News

NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

NetApp pushes further down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line. Continue Reading

October 28, 2007 28Oct2007 News

As network configuration management matures, documentation woes linger

Documentation of networks is a tertiary consideration. Is this hurting your business? Continue Reading

October 28, 2007 28Oct2007 News

Suncorp GM: Second Life trumps videoconferencing

Suncorp's Gavin Keeley believes the casual atmosphere of Second Life makes for better meetings. Have your say on his opinions inside this story! Continue Reading

October 25, 2007 25Oct2007 News

Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted

Asterisk creator Mark Spencer clarifies his position on hybrid-hosted VoIP, and discusses open source VoIP and what it means for business users. Continue Reading

October 23, 2007 23Oct2007 News

Product Roundup: ISCSI

Here's a look at some of the vendors and products that make up the iSCSI market. Continue Reading

October 23, 2007 23Oct2007 News

How to manage mobility

Planning a new mobility deployment? This tip and podcast offer eight strategies to make sure you get it right. Continue Reading

October 23, 2007 23Oct2007 News

Bringing QoS to end-user standards

The phone call setup experience and perception of voice quality are the biggest factors contributing to the user's satisfaction. However, while the dialing experience can be objectively measured, the caller's judgment of voice quality is subjective.... Continue Reading

October 22, 2007 22Oct2007 Tip

Using VMware to test open source network analysis tools

Open source network analysis tools can help network monitoring. Try out the open source network protocol analyser Wireshark inside a VMware Player Guest OS. Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 News

Tackling the backup and recovery challenges of tomorrow

Your data backup and data recovery challenges never stop changing. In this videocast, an EMC executive and a storage analyst discuss the new approaches you'll need to solve tomorrow's backup and recovery challenges. Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 News

DreamWorks draws on storage for animation

DreamWorks' senior technologist says it takes a lot of emerging storage technologies to make an animation movie. Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 News

Fibre Channel over Ethernet takes its next step

At Storage Networking World, QLogic, NetApp and startup Nuova demo Fibre Channel over Ethernet, but the race to 10 Gigabit Ethernet is far from over. Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 News

VoIP certification credentials

Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, ... Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 News

Intellectual property lawsuits dog storage industry

The proliferation of patent litigation among data storage companies could stifle technological innovation and drive up costs to the user. Continue Reading

October 21, 2007 21Oct2007 Tip

USB storage devices: Two ways to stop the threat to network security

USB storage devices pose a significant threat to network security. This tip discusses some basic strategies for blocking unauthorized USB device use. Continue Reading

October 16, 2007 16Oct2007 News

Microsoft OCS won't change UC game ... Yet

Uptake of Microsoft's software-based unified communications solution will be hindered by perceptions of the company as unreliable, analysts say. Continue Reading

October 16, 2007 16Oct2007 News

Download NAS Upgrades Buying Guide: Chapter 2 -- NAS management software

You asked for it, so here it is -- a printable version of our NAS Buying Guide. Continue Reading

October 15, 2007 15Oct2007 News

VoIP certification credentials

Looking for VoIP skills? Want to know how to hire a VoIP specialist? This list of VoIP certifications and the skills they impart should be useful reading! Continue Reading

October 14, 2007 14Oct2007 News

LSI moves to iSCSI arrays

All of LSI's products will support iSCSI connectivity, but its higher end arrays will have to wait for native support. Continue Reading

October 14, 2007 14Oct2007 News

SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand

Led by EMC's integration of data deduplication and CDP into its backup software, data protection products are prominent at Storage Networking World. Continue Reading

October 14, 2007 14Oct2007 News

VMware takes on data migration

VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices. Continue Reading

October 14, 2007 14Oct2007 In Depth

Data storage hardware quiz

Storage hardware, also known as primary storage, is a critical aspect in running your storage shop. How does your knowledge of storage hardware stack up? Take our quick quiz and find out today! Continue Reading

October 14, 2007 14Oct2007 News

Commentary: Solving the skills crisis

Could teaching 'Routing' as 'fourth R' in our schools solve the skills crisis? Continue Reading

October 11, 2007 11Oct2007 News

Juniper updates network access control

Juniper has updated its Unified Access Control NAC products to include better pre- and post-admission, identity and role awareness and other new features. Continue Reading

October 11, 2007 11Oct2007 News

Archiving vendors beef up integration

CA, Autonomy and Prostor look to differentiate products in a sea of archiving and e-discovery compliance players. Continue Reading

October 10, 2007 10Oct2007 News

Unified communications new priority for HP

Unified communications is a confusing area with a number of vendors in the mix. HP has launched new services to help ease companies into unified communications and help them determine which integrated tools will best fit their business goals. Continue Reading

October 10, 2007 10Oct2007 In Depth

Checklist for purchasing hardware-based encryption

Encryption appliances sit inline on a network and use specially designed electronics to encrypt data at line speeds, essentially eliminating the performance penalty imposed by encryption software running on a general server. While software-based ... Continue Reading

October 10, 2007 10Oct2007 News

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