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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. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up.

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

Comment For example, the industry-enforced PCI-DSS standard for credit card payment handlers specifies conditions such as the application and configuration of personal firewalls. The technology behind these basic operations - which email archiving...

Tags: paypal, risk management, risk

[02 Jul 2007]

Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?

Leader Some aren't exploiting the Intel offering but - they claim - going even further, choosing their own approaches to problems such as remote configuration and fixes, device lock and wipes - especially important given recent figures revealed by this...

Tags: laptop

[10 May 2007]

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. Make no mistake, says Anthony Plewes, VoIP is an attractive target for hackers and malware writers.

Tags: remote worker, encryption, vlan, voip security

[04 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs

Comment Sure we can all do it online but the configuration hassle is no mean undertaking, and how much easier and certain it is with a stick! Written at a Guilin, China hotel and despatched via the free wi-fi service

Tags: blueray, hd dvd, floppy disc, cd

[14 Jul 2006]

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...

Tags: software asset management, it governance, software licence, software piracy

[21 Jun 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06

Round-Up If you're one of the Round-Up's many readers who work at the coalface of IT then you probably wile away your working hours dealing with things like system security, project management, procurement, server configuration or having to tell people in...

[31 Mar 2006]

Open source gets down to business

Comment The idea is that customers obtaining their open source stack from SourceLabs will be buying peace of mind - it should all just work together, without any configuration problems, and that represents the added value.

Tags: gpl, open source, mysql, jboss

[12 Jul 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choosing Desktop Linux

Comment Before you know it, you are into a major project with elements of software selection, application development, operational level re-configuration and testing - not to mention all of the personnel-related tasks such as the cross training of users...

Tags: linux, windows

[14 Apr 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simplify the basics

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simplify the basics

Comment Those of us who work or have worked in IT know we have to change the configuration of assets - whether it be to bring them to the latest level of security patch, to introduce new functionality or to ensure that we maintain a vendor-supportable...

Tags: change management

[11 Feb 2005]

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. Martin Brampton has a few ideas. Periodically, the large IT vendors announce to the world they are going to make new inroads into the SME...

[01 Feb 2005]

Minority Report: The legend of the Headless Mac

Comment The Headless Mac has been a mainstay of Apple discussion on the internet for the last two years, with a broad range of theories circulating on its configuration, pricing and form factor. On dark and windy nights PC support technicians tell their...

Tags: headless mac, apple

[07 Jan 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile guesses

Comment I have toyed with 2.5 and 3G but the advertised facilities and data rates are rarely available, the interfaces and configuration routines are pretty awful and they seem less available than Wi-Fi. Dynamic, meshed networks of various devices stand...

Tags: uncommon sense, peter cochrane, cochrane, pico-cell

[17 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. Software does exist to make projects run harmoniously, with little excuse for disarray in teams of developers.

[11 Sep 2003]

Through the fog... Storage as a service

Comment There is no universally agreed management standard (reference Bluefin versus Widesky), debate continues about the impact of new protocols (such as Storage over IP), and no single company has yet managed to provide a single point of management for...

Tags: virtualization, virtualisation, falconstor, san

[04 Apr 2003]

Insecure about Wi-Fi security? Don’t be...

Comment Apparently, many hassles with WLAN security come from carefree users who do not turn security on, or who use the default configuration. Security is often cited as the main barrier to widespread use of Wi-Fi wireless networks, whether at work, at...

Tags: airsnort, wepcrack, honey pot, security

[03 Apr 2003]

What will make or break Wi-Fi?

Comment Ease of use is not a great strong point (remember the wireless LAN of constant sorrow) but it hasn’t proved an insurmountable hurdle to business users, who are a large part of target market for mobile data, and generally have access to technical...

Tags: toshiba, access, 802.11b, hot spot

[25 Mar 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]

The Ovum View: IBM-Rational - a threat to the industry?

Comment Coupled with Rational's well-integrated portfolio of testing, configuration management and analysis facilities IBM will get the integrated one-stop shop it desires. Most industry watchers know IBM is ending the year with a multibillion dollar...

[20 Dec 2002]

The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft takes the tablet, vertical platforms and ecommerce stats

Comment The first is coming from the services businesses who are taking their experiences of platform configuration and building them into the base products. On 7 November 2002 Microsoft and its partners will reveal the much-discussed tablet PC.

[01 Jul 2002]

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