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  • April 21, 2006 21 Apr'06

    Battery fault prompts HP laptops recall

    Hewlett-Packard is to recall more than 15,000 laptops worldwide because a fault makes them a fire hazard.

  • February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

    Fast Guide: Storage technologies

    A guide to storage technologies for both SMBs and enterprise users. This will help you sort out the advantages, limitations and applications of each technology.

  • November 20, 2005 20 Nov'05

    Wireless security crucial to railway safety

    A transportation firm uses wireless technology to keep the trains running on time. But securing mobile devices isn't easy when they're spread across the globe.

  • October 03, 2005 03 Oct'05

    How to break into a computer that is right at your fingertips

    Stressing the importance of physical security, Joel Dubin explains how a hacker can bypass a BIOS password and break into a computer.

  • September 29, 2005 29 Sep'05

    Find out how to bridge the communications gap

    Communications between the business and IT will be the subject of the next meeting of the Computer Weekly 500 Club (CW500).

  • September 20, 2005 20 Sep'05

    SAS drives product roundup

    Serial-attached SCSI (or SAS) drives offer significant storage capacity at a much lower cost, while maintaining reasonable performance. Find out who the vendors are in this market.

  • September 19, 2005 19 Sep'05

    Spy vs. Spy

    Excerpt from Chapter 6 of Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don't Even Know You Encounter Every Day.

  • September 11, 2005 11 Sep'05

    VoIP turns up the heat on firewalls

    New research shows that many organizations are increasingly concerned about VoIP security and plan to augment their firewalls within the next year, changing the landscape of the firewall market.

  • September 05, 2005 05 Sep'05

    Extending perimeters

    The news that, up until 2006, 70% of successful wireless local area network (WLAN) attacks will be because of the misconfiguration of WLAN access points and client software is disquieting on a number of levels.

  • August 29, 2005 29 Aug'05

    Storage area network quiz

    It's all about the storage area network (SAN) -- man. The more you know, the easier it is. Take our SAN quiz and find out where you stand as a SAN guru.

  • August 06, 2005 06 Aug'05

    Trusted Computing Group releases server specs

    The Trusted Computing Group released a new set of trusted server specifications it hopes will help vendors protect their platforms against security breaches.

  • July 12, 2005 12 Jul'05

    Tony Asaro: Blogs and more

    Read what Tony Asaro is talking about in this month's blog, and listen to him speak in a number of webcasts.

  • May 17, 2005 17 May'05

    TNT to provide staff with e-mail smartphones rather than laptops

    Logistics company TNT is to provide up to 700 staff worldwide with mobile e-mail, using the Nokia Communicator 9500 smartphone as...

  • May 09, 2005 09 May'05

    Computer Weekly wins top honour

    ComputerWeekly was last week declared the UK's campaigning magazine of the year at the publishing industry's annual awards for...

  • March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

    Linux lags Windows in new security report

    A controversial research paper takes a critical look at two popular platforms' track record on vulnerabilities and fixes. In turn, its findings are facing sharp scrutiny as well.

  • February 25, 2005 25 Feb'05

    Intel offers 64-bit desktop processors

    Intel has introduced five processors for desktop computers using its Extended Memory Technology, EM64T, which supports hybrid...

  • February 14, 2005 14 Feb'05

    Strategic Storage: DR planning blueprint

    Developing a good disaster recovery (DR) plan is similar to good dental hygiene -- and almost as exciting. Similar to going to the dentist twice a year, you should also test your DR plan with the same frequency. Wait too long to clean up your plan ...

  • February 08, 2005 08 Feb'05

    Loop switch

    Loop switch

  • February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

    SATA drives product roundup

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  • January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

    'Benevolent' NT4 patches a surprise to some

    Microsoft's first security bulletins of the new year included fixes for the now-unsupported Windows NT Server 4.0. On a related note, administrators are cautioned to apply one of January's patches in a specific order to avoid problems.

  • January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

    Computer Weekly barred from briefing on national programme

    The first media demonstration of new multibillion-pound NHS IT systems took place in Whitehall last week - but technology...

  • October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04

    IBM sharpens blades

    IBM has announced new management tools and upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers.

  • October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04

    Clear double advantage

    ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and...

  • September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

    Fast Guide: iSCSI

    If you need to come up to speed rapidly on iSCSI, you've come to the right place. In this Fast Guide, we touch upon the basics and then we walk you through the pros and cons of iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

  • September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

    Five steps to using the Kerberos protocol

    This excerpt from "Windows Server 2003 security infrastructures" explains the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510.

  • August 03, 2004 03 Aug'04

    Apple's SAN file system turns heads

  • July 07, 2004 07 Jul'04

    Deals abound for high-end storage

    Think high-end storage is out of your reach? Maybe not. Conversations with several storage buyers recently suggest that vendors are scrambling to give buyers the best possible deals.

  • May 19, 2004 19 May'04

    LAN-free, serverless and domino backups, oh my.

    In case you've missed anything, here's a roundup of some of the best original technical content that appeared on SearchStorage.com the week of May 10-14. Tips and Ask the Experts Q&A's cover LAN-free, serverless and domino backups.

  • April 27, 2004 27 Apr'04

    Backup school: Quiz two, answer six

    Here is the answer to Backup school quiz two, question six.

  • February 15, 2004 15 Feb'04

    Seagate touts SAS drives as faster alternative to SATA

    Seagate is set to demonstrate a 2.5-inch hard drive based on the serial-attached SCSI interface. The company says the product will fill the need for a smaller, faster and more reliable alternative to serial ATA disks.

  • February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04

    More questions and answers from SAN School lesson # 5

    Here are additional questions and answers from SAN School Lesson 5: Designing a SAN. The questions cover topics ranging from how to determine an effective SAN design to meet your needs, to the differences between fabric switches and loop switches.

  • February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04

    More questions and answers from SAN school lesson # 8

    Here are SAN School Professor Chris Poelker's answers to more user submitted questions from SAN School Lesson 8, "Tying your SANs together." Q&A's cover topics ranging from what causes SAN problems, to preventing equipment problems.

  • January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04

    Resource guide to disk-based backup

  • November 14, 2002 14 Nov'02

    Chinook parents set to appeal to Europe

    The parents of the two Chinook helicopter pilots labelled guilty of gross negligence over the Mull of Kintyre disaster are...

  • October 31, 2002 31 Oct'02

    Government blocks judicial review of Chinook disaster

    The Government has made it impossible for the families of two pilots blamed for the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 to seek a...

  • July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02

    MoD refuses to concede error in Chinook verdict

    The Ministry of Defence (MoD), citing a new series of simulations by Boeing, has refused to clear the names of two pilots blamed...

  • March 28, 2002 28 Mar'02

    Minister slams Chinook campaign in debate

    In the week when he sent 1,700 troops to Afghanistan, defence secretary Geoff Hoon issued a blistering criticism of Computer...

  • February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02

    Lords Chinook challenge

    The Government expects to have a debate in the House of Lords on last week's select committee report on the fatal crash of...

  • November 15, 2001 15 Nov'01

    Boeing simulation ignored Chinook's Fadec system

    A House of Lords committee investigating the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre has found that a Boeing simulation of...

  • October 18, 2001 18 Oct'01

    Chinook pilots may have been unable to slow down, squadron leader tells Lords

    The pilots of Chinook ZD576, which crashed in Scotland in 1994, may have been unable to slow down as they approached the Mull of...