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Versatility of InfoSlice RAID Configurations

whitepaper Rather a Storage Array is frequently spit into several partitions and each partition is given to a separate application. Depending on which InfoSlice model one has, it can contain up to 16 hard disk drives in a storage volume with total raw storage...

Tags: raid, array, raid, partition

[31 Aug 2007]

"I'll Have What She's Having" - Serving Up Meta-Data to Academic Research Teams

whitepaper Data on animal husbandry may be collected on paper at one university and entered into a SAS file using a SAS/Intrnet application, DNA analysis carried out at a collaborating university may be spit out of laboratory equipment as a spreadsheet...

Tags: knowledge and data management, file, sas, collected

[27 Apr 2007]

Is Skype secure enough for businesses?

Comment Vishing, spoofing and spit Spam on softphones and IP handsets - often called spit - has been widely reported as a future threat. If you are unlucky enough to be one of the first to ever receive an earful of spit, whatever you do, don't respond.

Tags: social engineering, spoofing, spit, vishing

[02 Apr 2007]

The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them

Comment Stopping spit While the above network vulnerabilities present a very real and present danger to businesses deploying VoIP, media attention has lingered on the potential danger of spam over internet telephony, or spit.

Tags: corporate fraud, spit, voip security, dos

[22 Mar 2007]

Security key concern for VoIP rollouts

News VoIP security - which covers issues such as spit and vishing - came second, selected by 26 per cent of respondents. When it comes to rolling out voice over IP (VoIP), the top priority for businesses is call quality, according to a silicon.com...

Tags: voip security, voip

[22 Mar 2007]

VoIP threats to watch out for

Comment The real-time nature of voice calls will make dealing with spit much more challenging than email spam. Spit could be generated in a similar way to email spam with botnets targeting millions of VoIP users from compromised machines.

Tags: spit, voip security, vishing, hacking

[09 Mar 2007]

Is Spit set to soar?

News Several other companies are also developing techniques for blocking telephony spam, including security products vendor Checkpoint, and Eyeball Networks, a Canadian company which has developed a server specifically designed to stop Spit (spam over...

Tags: voip spam, spit, spam

[29 Jan 2007]

Robo-reporters spit out results stories

News Against a backdrop where consumers of financial news are always clamouring for speedy information to help them with stock deals, and corporations the world over are fixed on automation, Thomson says computer scribes can spit out a profits story in...

Tags: thomson, robo-reporters

[23 Aug 2006]

Revivio SPIT's at Traditional Backup

whitepaper SPIT copies). While faster recovery objectives can be met by making more frequent SPIT copies, doing so is time consuming and expensive. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology has evolved as a means of allowing instant access to data at...

Tags: disaster recovery, points, copies, snapshot

[18 Aug 2006]

AOL gives IM a spit and polish

News AOL is today set to launch its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar and...

Tags: aim, aol

[19 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 21

Comment Fewer people spit in the street and there are nowhere near as many bicycles. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories...

Tags: china

[30 Jun 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 1

Comment A Chinese guest is yelling something at the top of his voice in the café while his friend is making some foul noises in preparation to spit. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today...

Tags: china

[08 Jun 2006]

Microsoft is "as aggressive as hell", says Red Hat chief

News To make any kind of shift of direction based on the latest trend would be a mistake - the market would spit me out. Three or four years ago, open source providers enjoyed plenty of attention. Just ask Novell, which more or less reinvented itself...

Tags: red hat, open source, microsoft, matthew szulik

[01 Jun 2006]

BT to power Robbie Williams' back end

BT to power Robbie Williams' back end

News The 'one stop shop' is intended to let the rights holders upload their material once and have it hosted once, with the ability to "spit it out to any device", according to Richard Bron, CEO of Blueprint.

[23 Nov 2004]

How Microsoft keeps its edge

How Microsoft keeps its edge

Comment Even then, many folks say Windows wasn't worth spit until version 3.1. Microsoft has managed to remain dominant in IT for decades while rarely being first to market. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond pulls off this feat.

Tags: windows, microsoft

[15 Oct 2004]

Night Vision Equipment Part Two

whitepaper In general, if the filter gets hot enough to sizzle spit, it's too hot. A potent light with the appropriate infrared filter will make your night vision see much better in dark places. Note that a filter does not make infrared light, it merely...

Tags: multifunction peripherals, vision, filter, night

[24 Feb 2004]

Top 10 tips for a terrific website

Top 10 tips for a terrific website

News Slim pages with fast servers can spit out the pages fast so the user won't get bored. Want to know how to create a top-notch website? Here are the web design top ten tips from web guru Jakob Nielsen exclusively for silicon.com:

[07 Nov 2001]

The ARM story: Success, no stress and lots of happiness

Comment This means the designs are not fed into a computer program that can spit out the designs. Here Kate Hanaghan looks at the spanners that might just end up in ARM's works. The ARM story reads like a fairytale compared to the rest of the chip industry.

[01 Nov 2001]

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