Networks Generation

September 2009

Load-Balancer On A Stick
Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 11 Sep 2009

Terry Pratchett created rat on a stick for his Discworld novels, but my mates at jetNEXUS have gone one better with a load-balancer on a stick... ...in the sense of a USB stick, or CD if you ...

I'm On The Train...
Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 10 Sep 2009

So.Yet more extensive travelling and lack of Internet (I can't rate McDonald's free WiFi very highly based on recent experience - like going back to 2.4kbps dial-up - but now I am with, not one, ...

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Workplace 'mindfulness' as coping mechanism for AI disruption

Two tech titans investing in the AI tools that automate jobs are also sinking money into workplace mindfulness programs aimed at ...

RSA 2018: Juniper CEO stresses training, automation in cybersecurity

During his RSA Conference keynote, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim encouraged leaders to be "agents of change" that embrace automation in ...

Will the next act in the ongoing evolution of IT be its last?

The evolution of IT keeps on keeping on -- for now. But as technology becomes more integral to the business, the IT department ...

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Government hacking tactics questioned at OURSA

The ACLU's Jennifer Granick took government hacking to task at the OURSA Conference this week, calling out mass surveillance ...

Keeper Security forms vulnerability disclosure program with Bugcrowd

Following its controversial lawsuit against an Ars Technica security reporter, Keeper Security has teamed with Bugcrowd on a ...

Another misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket exposes 48M records

News roundup: A misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket led to the exposure of 48 million records collected by a private data analytics ...

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Router security options advised following U.S. hacker alert

A rare government alert that Russian hackers are targeting routers in the United States and the United Kingdom has security ...

Analyst balks at blockchain distributed ledger in networking

Blockchain distributed ledger technology is untested, unproven and overly complex, making it unsuitable for networking, ...

Network-as-a-service market blossoms as demands grow

The network-as-a-service market is attracting more attention, as enterprises look for ways to outsource some of their ...

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Guide to buying server performance monitoring software

Integration, storage and vendor support all affect whether a performance monitoring tool is right for an organization. Mull over ...

How IBM's data science team quickens users' AI projects

In this Q&A, IBM's Seth Dobrin discusses the rising user interest in machine learning and AI projects and the help inexperienced ...

IBM blockchain technology spotlights mainframes

IBM's blockchain offerings aim to ease enterprise IT concerns by combining Z system mainframe hardware with industry-specific ...

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GDPR data protection edicts make good data governance a must

The European Union's new GDPR law puts the onus on companies to ensure that their data governance and management practices enable...

GDPR rules can spur broader steps to protect sensitive data

Companies need to make compliance with GDPR's requirements on managing personal data a priority, but they should also work to ...

Data integrity protection spurs greater security spending

As hacking, ransomware and malware attacks mount, companies place big data protection and integrity among the primary reasons for...