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Networking News

16 May 2008

Counting the cost of virtual server sprawl

By Denise Dubie, Network World (US)

Letting the number of virtual machines grow exponentially could cost an organisation thousands of dollars in redundant servers and underutilised resources, is the predictable warning from virtual server management start-up Embotics. Read more...

Junk email triples on social networks: 15 May 08
User locator hunts rogues too: 15 May 08
Spammers handed record $234 million fine: 14 May 08
Brocade sports 8Gig Fibre Channel: 13 May 08
Galileo and GPS systems to work together: 13 May 08
Google offers app for friendly websites: 13 May 08
UWB in doubt after TI pulls out: 09 May 08

Networking Blog Entries

09 May 2008

Is Carbon the Hoover of the environment?

By Bryan Betts

Why do so many people talk about carbon footprints, when what they mean is energy efficiency and power consumption? Read more...

Keeping the UC faith: 15 Apr 08
Low-power Bluetooth nears reality: 14 Apr 08
Giving presentations by remote control: 25 Mar 08
What T9 did next: 20 Mar 08
With telepresence, who needs a show anyway?: 17 Mar 08
Oops, that was careless....: 01 Feb 08
802.11n - in embedded devices?: 17 Jan 08

Networking Insight

16 May 2008

The green metrics conundrum

By By Tim Greene, Network World

Individual vendors create their own meaning of greenness in measuring how well their equipment stacks up, says one analyst. Read more...

More skirmishing breaks out on the AutoCAD front: 07 May 08
Wanted: Convergence standard for 802.21: 30 Apr 08
Low energy Bluetooth breaks cover: 25 Apr 08
Cisco's IOS vs Juniper's JUNOS: 23 Apr 08
The WLAN wars are back - with a vengeance: 17 Apr 08
UK prepares for 4G spectrum auction: 14 Apr 08
The glow of Internet crime - its simplicity: 13 Apr 08

Networking Briefings

14 May 2008

5 IT skills that won't boost your salary

By Denise Dubie, Network World

Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents. Read more...

Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode: 13 May 08
Earth Day: Who's the greenest of them all?: 02 May 08
The truth about people and cameras: 01 May 08
Service providers pick up on application performance: 17 Mar 08
DNS: a tempting free lunch: 12 Feb 08
802.11n access points on the starting blocks: 26 Dec 07
Is FCoE the emperor's new trousers?: 02 Nov 07

Networking Interviews

16 April 2008

Whatever happened to ZigBee?

By Peter Judge, Techworld

Low-power sensor networks aren't yet as big as he hoped, but ZigBee Alliance chief Bob Heile says the low-power standard will rock the competition and make the world greener. Read more...

IBM pumps its unified comms strategy: 31 Mar 08
Is a free global Wi-Fi network possible?: 04 Mar 08
Nortel: don't do 802.11n yet: 08 Feb 08
From routing to switching - Juniper jumps in with both feet: 02 Feb 08
Coffee shops, conferences and communities: Getting the IT pro's attention: 31 Jan 08
Linux guru offers sneak peek at Kernel Report: 16 Jan 08
Network monitoring's New Year Resolution: 07 Jan 08

Networking Whitepapers

02 May 2008

Strategic Networking Outsourcing

By THUS

More and more companies are turning to outsourcing as a means of running their networks but what are the factors that influence the decision? How do you decide whether to hand your network to another company, and, more importantly, what level of control and involvement do you have? Read more...

Universal Ethernet Services for Customer-Controlled Application Performance: 26 Mar 08
You Say I Need An Application Firewall?: 15 Oct 07
Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Performance Measurement and Tuning: 11 Oct 07
Twisted-pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking: 28 Sep 07

Networking Product Reviews

28 April 2008

Lenovo ThinkPad X300

By Peter Judge. Techworld

List price: £1950
Pros: Excellent design gives light weight without compromising, Very good screen and keyboard, good battery life, lots of useful details, good wireless integration
Cons: High price, moderate performance, screen viewing angle is reduced, SSD only at this stage Read more...

Edimax BR-6504n Wi-Fi router: 27 Feb 08
Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1: 15 Feb 08
VMware ESX Server 3.5: 11 Feb 08
Ruckus ZoneFlex: 29 Jan 08
Apple MacBook Air: 23 Jan 08
Cisco 6500 Virtual Switching Supervisor engine: 15 Jan 08
VirtualBox 1.5: 27 Dec 07

Networking How-Tos

07 May 2008

Use your BlackBerry as a modem

By Al Sacco, CIO.com

Using your phone as a modem can get you out of tricky situations. Here's how to do it with a BlackBerry. Read more...

Getting started with networking: 06 Dec 07
IDS on the cheap: 03 Oct 07
Box reduction: 04 Sep 07
The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit: 10 Aug 07
Eight steps to Longhorn planning (part 1): 09 Jul 07
Landing that first job in networking: 29 Jun 07
How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 2): 14 Jun 07

Networking Case Studies