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Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week, Microsoft gave attendees a close-up look at a self-contained server unit from one of the company's datacentres. This particular unit had been stationed outside... [24 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a London coffee shop four days later. Over the past six months the internet has seen a noticeable slow down and an increased level of... [23 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from businesses who've already taken the plunge. Despite vendors touting the numerous benefits that virtualisation can bestow on... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of 2010,... [19 Nov 2009]
Online IT Training Company Deploys Web Conferencing Service, Saves Time and Money
White Paper Intelliem, an Internet-based company that provides technical consulting and enterprise-specific training, needed a new Web conferencing solution to meet growing customer demand for online delivery of services. [16 Nov 2009]
Protecting SharePoint With Double-Take for Windows 5.0
White Paper As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. Microsoft SharePoint streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create project teams that are based anywhere there... [13 Nov 2009]
Mobile Devices Put Companies at Risk
White Paper According to a Gartner study, the rate of identity theft incidents has grown by over 50% since 2003. Given that employees are doing business at airports, hotels, restaurants, and on trains while commuting to work using... [13 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most... [12 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the current threat landscape. The past 12 months comprised a record-breaking year. McAfee recorded well over 100,000 new viruses and Trojans, a 50 percent jump in... [12 Nov 2009]
An Interval Decision Diagram Based Firewall
White Paper This paper explores the use of Interval Decision Diagrams (IDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to predicate logic, then implementing a... [12 Nov 2009]
HP print solutions and Barclays Wealth
White Paper Leading investment management advisor Barclays Wealth wanted to replace its disparate, multi-vendor print environment with a more efficient and environmentally sound solution. One of the business benefits, Annual savings from cash... [12 Nov 2009]
HP print solutions for Logica
White Paper IT services and business provider, Logica wanted to replace an ageing fleet of legacy printers and copies from different vendors with a single-vendor solution which would reduce costs and increase efficiency. [12 Nov 2009]
Data Compression Benchmark and ROI Analysis
White Paper Data compression offers a technology solution for increasing the efficiencies and decreasing the costs of storing and transferring critical business information. With average compression rates of 50 percent per file, it... [11 Nov 2009]
An MTIDD Based Firewall: Using Decision Diagrams for Packet Filtering
White Paper This paper explores the use of Multi-Terminal Interval Decision Diagrams (MTIDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to predicate logic, then... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of Windows 7, which began shipping... [09 Nov 2009]
