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DrayTek's best-selling 2820 router gets SME overhaul

DrayTek has overhauled its best-selling 2820 series ?pro? broadband modem-routers, adding a raft of features designed to make the product more appealing to SMEs.
HP's print-by-email service is tested

HP promises its ePrint service allows you print from anywhere to one of the company's enabled printers by sending the job via email. We test the service with a number of smartphone and webmail services
ARM execs promise five times more performance from Cortex A15 chip

Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, promising a five fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high performance routers and servers.
Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.
Minority of Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker

More than a year after doomsday reports suggested the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows.
Blue Coat offers virtual appliance for branch offices

Blue Coat has launched a software-only WAN optimiser
Whole PCs cloned on new Iomega drive

EMC's Iomega division has come up with a striking new virtualisation technology that consumers can use to ?clone' a whole PC and its contents into a fully portable form.
Seagate has second try at encryption drive

Seagate has fortified its BlackArmor line of self-encrypting hard drives, announcing an external PC unit, a revised network-attached storage (NAS), and a follow-up portable drive.
Virtualisation usage hits server shipments

Server sales continue to plummet in the first quarter after server shipments ground to a halt as the recession hit home for big iron vendors.
Riverbed sharpens up Windows app delivery

Riverbed has licensed Microsoft's Windows 2008 technology to improve the delivery of Microsoft applications to branch offices.

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Mac OS X Lion Server is a downgrade that could see corporate IT switching to Windows

The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade that may prompt a move to Windows Server.
Why we shouldn't worry about switching to IPv6 yet

A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That's not necessarily the case, though, especially for a consumer or a small business.
Riverbed CEO talks WAN optimisation and cloud

In an interview, Kennelly discusses the future of Riverbed and how WAN optimisation is like building a private cloud.
Four tips to avoid server failure in virtualisation projects

As virtualisation stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.
Crossing VoIP's security minefield

I'm hearing more about new kinds of attacks on the LAN, such as VoIP attacks or using printers as a source of attack. How can LAN security help me prevent such events?
EMC's stealth storage software package

EMC is stealthily supplying storage software packages to OEMs like Intel
Green IT: a marketing ploy or new tech?

The greening of IT is being led by vendors and, inside a wrapping of marketing 'greenwash', customers think real progress is being made.
Branch nets get integrated help

But don't confuse these integrated devices aimed at branch offices with all-in-one servers designed for small businesses - they're a lot more than that.
A tour around Storage Server 2003 R2

Microsoft's new release greatly improves branch office storage services to better meet WAFS vendor competition. There is much more besides.
Linux is harder to live with, reckons poll

Companies find that their Linux server setups are less hardware-hungry than Windows-based systems, if the results of a recent survey are to be believed.

How-tos

Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

Case Study: Collaboration demands WAN optimisation

When the printer won't print

Case Study: Miracle-Gro finds growth in WAN optimisation

How to improve a small Wi-Fi network

Case Study: Open source unlocks options for many businesses

Case Study: Nationwide gets cashback from VMware install

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