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November 16, 2007 16 Nov'07
Redundancy tracker
November 15, 2007 15 Nov'07
Wireless LAN performance

Benchmarking your wireless LAN performance is tricky. This tip examines key issues and offers advice for effectively measuring your WLAN performance.
November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07
Home Office awards £650m e-Borders contract

The Home Office has awarded its £650m eBorders contract to a consortium led by Raytheon Systems.
November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07
Defining unified communications

Read how industry pundits are defining unified communications.
November 13, 2007 13 Nov'07
Network access control server eases guest access

Cisco Network Admission Control Guest Server was released today to help ease guest access and prepare for a larger network access control (NAC) rollout.
November 12, 2007 12 Nov'07
More ICT scholarships inbound

Scholarships for the IT industry totalling a value of $250,000 will be available at the beginning of the coming academic year, it was announced last week.
November 12, 2007 12 Nov'07
More ICT scholarships inbound

Scholarships for the IT industry totalling a value of $250,000 will be available at the beginning of the coming academic year, it was announced last week.
November 12, 2007 12 Nov'07
How to integrate iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and make it work

Learn about eight best practices for integrating iSCSI into a Fibre Channel SAN, as well as best deployment practices for iSCSI.

November 11, 2007 11 Nov'07
Integrating edge assets into networks can cut costs

Proper management of edge assets in a network saves money and time while avoiding headaches.
November 11, 2007 11 Nov'07
IPTV Crash Course: Chapter 3: The Technology of IP Networks

IPTV service utilises basic IP network technology to broadcast television using the internet.
November 07, 2007 07 Nov'07
Configuring VLANs

Learn how to configure a virtual LAN (VLAN) in this step-by-step, automated, 15-minute demo.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Users leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI Sans find pros, cons

Users who recently updated aging Fibre Channel equipment with new iSCSI San products have found ease of use can be a double-edged sword.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Adaptec reports losses

Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.

November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Cisco upgrades Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switches

Cisco today released updates to its modular Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switch series to add more capacity, scalability and redundancy.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
LeftHand adds hardware to iSCSI SANs

LeftHand makes its iSCSI SAN software available on two prepackaged appliances; sources indicate the hardware comes from Dell.
November 05, 2007 05 Nov'07
Google announces open source operating system for smartphones

After months of speculation, Google has officially announced Android, an mobile devices OS it's developing in partnership with a wide variety of companies.
November 04, 2007 04 Nov'07
Broaden broadband debate: Comms Alliance

The Communications Alliance has joined the chorus of voices calling for election candidates to broaden the scope of their broadband plans.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
Riverbed adds disaster recovery features to WAFS

A new version of Riverbed's software will sense when users are doing massive restores over the Wan and optimise traffic accordingly, the company says.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
Network design: Five ways to lower your costs

Learn how to lower network operating costs without sacrificing utility in this tip on designing a low-cost network.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
NPfIT went ahead after prime minister had 10-minute briefing

A former Whitehall official has revealed that he and his colleagues were given 10 minutes to make the case to the prime minister over what became the world's biggest civil IT-based modernisation programme.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
MPLS implementation gotchas

Eliminate network latency, without locking into an SLA with a bad service provider, by controlling and implementing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).
October 31, 2007 31 Oct'07
Unified communication applications for businesses with remote workers

Bill Trussell decodes the unified communications (UC) ciphers for you and makes a UC recommendation.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
EMC's Tucci vows to keep up with new features

EMC CEO says storage giant is widening its technology net to match innovations of smaller competitors.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Riverbed posts profit, but stock slips

Riverbed reports higher sales, but its stock fell 25% on a poor rating from financial analysts.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Microsoft's OCS is finally here, for better or for worse

Zeus Kerravala reports on the long-awaited Microsoft OCS launch. Find out the pros and cons of OCS.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Non-unified communications can cost millions

Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting work flow and business processes, a new study has revealed.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
Unified communications platform gets SMB twist

While unified communications has eluded the SMB market, Siemens has released an all-in-one UC appliance specifically for the SMB.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

NetApp is continuing a push down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI SAN

NetApp is continuing a push down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.
October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07
Advanced data storage final exam

Are you up to date on advanced data storage technologies? Take our final exam and evaluate your knowledge of advanced data storage. This final exam isn't for the weak.
October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07
NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

NetApp pushes further down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.
October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07
As network configuration management matures, documentation woes linger

Documentation of networks is a tertiary consideration. Is this hurting your business?
October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07
Suncorp GM: Second Life trumps videoconferencing

Suncorp's Gavin Keeley believes the casual atmosphere of Second Life makes for better meetings. Have your say on his opinions inside this story!
October 25, 2007 25 Oct'07
Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted

Asterisk creator Mark Spencer clarifies his position on hybrid-hosted VoIP, and discusses open source VoIP and what it means for business users.
October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07
Product Roundup: ISCSI

Here's a look at some of the vendors and products that make up the iSCSI market.
October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07
How to manage mobility

Planning a new mobility deployment? This tip and podcast offer eight strategies to make sure you get it right.
October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07
Bringing QoS to end-user standards

The phone call setup experience and perception of voice quality are the biggest factors contributing to the user's satisfaction. However, while the dialing experience can be objectively measured, the caller's judgment of voice quality is subjective....
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
Tackling the backup and recovery challenges of tomorrow

Your data backup and data recovery challenges never stop changing. In this videocast, an EMC executive and a storage analyst discuss the new approaches you'll need to solve tomorrow's backup and recovery challenges.
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
DreamWorks draws on storage for animation

DreamWorks' senior technologist says it takes a lot of emerging storage technologies to make an animation movie.
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
Fibre Channel over Ethernet takes its next step

At Storage Networking World, QLogic, NetApp and startup Nuova demo Fibre Channel over Ethernet, but the race to 10 Gigabit Ethernet is far from over.
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
VoIP certification credentials

Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, ...
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
Intellectual property lawsuits dog storage industry

The proliferation of patent litigation among data storage companies could stifle technological innovation and drive up costs to the user.
October 16, 2007 16 Oct'07
Microsoft OCS won't change UC game ... Yet

Uptake of Microsoft's software-based unified communications solution will be hindered by perceptions of the company as unreliable, analysts say.
October 16, 2007 16 Oct'07
Download NAS Upgrades Buying Guide: Chapter 2 -- NAS management software

You asked for it, so here it is -- a printable version of our NAS Buying Guide.
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
VoIP certification credentials

Looking for VoIP skills? Want to know how to hire a VoIP specialist? This list of VoIP certifications and the skills they impart should be useful reading!
October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand

Led by EMC's integration of data deduplication and CDP into its backup software, data protection products are prominent at Storage Networking World.