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RSS causesPhishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News The scammer will typically target the people who handle financial transactions in a company, sending them emails containing a link that, when clicked on, causes key-logging malware to be installed on their computer. [04 Nov 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News One of the largest causes of energy and IT operational waste in datacentres are servers that are simply not being used said 1E CEO Sumir Karayi, who said the savings from decommissioning non-productive servers "cannot be... [19 Oct 2009]
New Release - Diskeeper 2009 with InvisiTasking: It's Smart. It's Transparent. It Will Take Your PC from Zero to Sixty--Automatically!
White Paper It slows access to a crawl and causes delayed application launches and slow boot ups. File fragmentation--the splitting of files in tens, hundreds or thousands of pieces--puts the brakes on system performance. [16 Oct 2009]
Identifying Common Reliability/Stability Problems Caused by File Fragmentation
White Paper As the author of Diskeeper®, the Number One Automatic DefragmenterÂ, Diskeeper Corporation has spent countless hours researching the causes and consequences of disk fragmentation. Sure, disk fragmentation affects system... [16 Oct 2009]
Defrag Myth Busters - What You Should Know
White Paper It is also one of the leading causes of a wide range of common computer problems, system failures, and early hardware replacement. There are many serious misconceptions about fragmentation which, if believed, can lead to... [16 Oct 2009]
High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
White Paper This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's... [15 Oct 2009]
An Evaluation of the ModSecurity Pro M1100 Web Application Firewall Relative to the Payment Card Industry
White Paper This paper discusses the occurrence and causes of data compromises in the Payment Card Industry. Understanding the genesis of the application security requirements of the PCI DSS provides a firm foundation for... [05 Oct 2009]
An Evaluation of Breach Security WebDefend Web Application Firewall Relative to the Payment Card Industry
White Paper This paper discusses the occurrence and causes of data compromises in the Payment Card Industry. Understanding the genesis of the application security requirements of the PCI DSS provides a firm foundation for... [05 Oct 2009]
IT Service Management Metrics Metrics That Matter: Four Key Benchmarks for Improving IT Performance
White Paper They have integrated those processes and controls into how they manage almost every aspect of their daily work, helping them achieve their business goals and find variance before it causes a catastrophic outage, failed... [05 Oct 2009]
Requirements Management and Visual Studio Team System
White Paper Failures to define, communicate, or validate business requirements are the root causes of many software-project delays, overruns, and failures. There is a growing realization in the industry of the importance of proper... [02 Oct 2009]
Colorcon Ensures IT Performance Across Global Operations With Enterprise Monitoring Solution
White Paper The challenge was to ensure round-the-clock availability of the company's database, middleware, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that support its worldwide operations and enable greater visibility into IT issues to... [02 Oct 2009]
Troubleshooting Slow Networks with Wireshark
White Paper In this white paper, we examine how to use Wireshark to troubleshoot some of the top causes of poor network performance. Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source network analyzer, has become an essential tool to... [01 Oct 2009]
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
White Paper Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The use of airflow management blanking panels can reduce this... [01 Oct 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News In a speech to a government green IT conference on Tuesday, Cabinet Office minister Angela Smith said IT is "one of the hidden causes of climate change", with worldwide IT responsible for the same level of carbon... [16 Sep 2009]
Designing Power-Friendly Devices
White Paper This paper focuses on a generally-observed industry problem, where the behavior of devices causes a significant increase to system power. Much work has been done in Microsoft Windows operating systems such as Windows XP... [16 Sep 2009]
