configuration manager in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Meanwhile, your configuration management officer has fouled up again, your load balancing test has gone bad and the security patch for your entire desktop range has failed. Cross was the group program manager for UAC, which, when activated... [18 Apr 2008]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Many IP phones have web servers installed, so that configuration can be managed from a PC screen, however this leaves them exposed to the internet. Chris Whitwood, network manager at University College Falmouth, which has deployed IP telephony... [04 Apr 2007]
Beating software piracy is easier than you think
Comment Richard Muirhead, CEO of Tideway, a maker of software asset management tools, explains: "We wanted to understand the operation and configuration of the data centre. Muirhead suggests organisations can use Itil best practice and a federated... [21 Jun 2006]
Devil's Advocate: What the big guns don't get about SMEs
Comment Advanced storage servers are available that can be easily plugged into a network with minimal configuration. They cannot achieve the depth of experience of an SME, which is larger and equipped with an IT team and a manager. [01 Feb 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment Cybersight, for example, is very good at noticing change within a LAN configuration. Back in the old days, when Microsoft first brought out LAN Manager and then SMS, the advantage with LAN management products was in reducing downtime and expenses. [16 Sep 2003]
Through the fog... Software configuration management
Comment One of the least glamorous sectors of the software industry is software configuration management - yet it's essential. Popular products include Borland's StarTeam Standard, Merant's PVCS Version Manager, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and the Perforce... [11 Sep 2003]
Farewell, floppy
Comment Company representatives added that Dell hasn't decided yet whether its website configuration tool will automatically include or exclude the floppy - meaning that consumers will either need to manually delete or add it. [07 Feb 2003]
How we use our mobile devices
Comment Spacial configuration of using a laptop is quite different from a PDA or mobile so we see an increasing number of people doing what we call layering - linking information from a mobile to a PDA and then downloading it to a PC or laptop in the... [30 May 2002]
Windows XP: Five reasons to be cheerful
Comment Add that to the Universal Plug and Play feature in XP that supposedly enables auto-discovery and configuration of anything (including the office coffee machine, as long as Microsoft approves) and you have a tempting path to inextricable chaos... [24 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: LinuxWorld shenanigans, Psion trouble and what value stock options
Comment Also at the show Sun released a version of Java for small devices, called the "connected device configuration" of Java. Last week, Microsoft's product manager for competitive strategies, Doug Miller, was quoted as saying the new Linux kernel is... [05 Feb 2001]
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