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RSS osGoogle sheds light on netbook plans for Chrome OS
News Google has taken the wraps off its Chrome OS for the first time. The OS is aimed at netbook users and is designed for fast, lightweight computing. While the code has been open sourced, the... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. The Lenovo smartbook runs a vanilla version of the Android OS Another Snapdragon device... [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Fast forward to the present and open source is indeed on the rise - most notably in the mobile industry, for example, where handset makers are falling over themselves to embrace new open source OSes such as Google's Android and Maemo,... [19 Nov 2009]
IBM WebSphere Portal for z/OS taps into System z, Web 2.0: Executive update
White Paper "Executive Update: IBM WebSphere Portal enhancements This update covers recent enhancements to the IBM® WebSphere® Portal including improved performance and extensive Web 2.0 capabilities. See how to lower costs and extract value... [16 Nov 2009]
Technical On Demand Teleconference: Managing large objects in a DB2 for z/OS environment - tips and techniques
White Paper This teleconference explains how the IBM® DB2® Administration Tool and IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS® can help you manage LOBs efficiently and effectively. We'll cover the types of activities that a DBA performs to manage a DB2... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo The Mini 3 is powered by Google's mobile OS, Android. Dell may be better known as a PC vendor but it also has designs on smartphones. Last week the computer giant revealed details of its first foray into the increasingly... [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News The Google boss also touched on the company's upcoming OS, Chrome, saying: "We hope to release the first open source version of Chrome OS later this year, the year 2009. Last week saw silicon.com sister... [16 Nov 2009]
Power Solutions Article: Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers
White Paper Microsoft® Hyper-V technology provides a simplified virtualization platform integrated directly into the Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 OS. This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses... [14 Nov 2009]
Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption: Detailed Product Overview for Mac OS X
White Paper Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption, based on market-leading Pointsec technology, is designed to provide comprehensive security for data at rest, especially on notebook PCs. It is designed to be easy to set up, deploy,... [13 Nov 2009]
Advantages and Disadvantages of EFS and Effective Recovery of Encrypted Data
White Paper The creators of EFS have also ensured against the loss of the private key by the user, for example as a result of OS reinstallation, or when new user accounts were created. Here, the specially-designed EFS Recovery Agent... [13 Nov 2009]
A Comparative Analysis of DAM Vs. Native Database Auditing Vs. Database Log Analysis With a SIEM or Log Manager
White Paper It does make a lot of sense to use a DAM with a SIM so one has the holistic picture of database events in tandem with other security events such as the OS, application logs, IDS's and firewalls. One can benefit from... [13 Nov 2009]
IP Security Management (IPSM): BLC 6000 Multi-Service Access Platform
White Paper These value-added software enhancements, which are embedded in the Occam Operating System (OS), are standard with all BLC 6000 equipment and include this paper's topic: IP Security Management. This paper provides a... [13 Nov 2009]
Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way onto shiny new hardware. The 3.2-inch touchscreen Xperia X2 runs the latest iteration of Microsoft's... [13 Nov 2009]
Using NitroView and NitroGuard as an Anomaly Detection System (ADS): Benefits of NitroView and NitroGuard for Network + Security Anomaly Detection
White Paper The data collected may be sourced from virtually any relevant network device, including: network traffic flows (from Netflow or Sflow capable routers and/or using Nitro-Flow); alerts and events generated by NitroGuard; from any of the... [12 Nov 2009]
On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to increase the total resource utilization in data centers. However, efficiently capitalizing on the available resources requires tools... [12 Nov 2009]
