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  • Microsoft releases service packs galore

    In the past few weeks, Microsoft has released a slew of service packs for SQL Server 2008, as well as SP2 for its firewall, Forefront Threat Management Gateway. It also promised the third-and-final service pack for its Office 2007 wares.

  • Top 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

    Microsoft claims 300 new and improved features in Windows Server 8, but after a few days in Redmond watching demos and stepping through lab sessions, we wonder whether the marketing guys accidentally left off a zero.

  • Learn the basics of PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL is a first rate, enterprise-worthy open source RDBMS (relational database management system) that compares very favorably to high-priced closed-source commercial databases. Databases are complex, tricksy beasts full of pitfalls. In this two-part crash course, we'll get a new PostgreSQL database up and running with elegant ease, and learn important fundamentals.

  • Ten essential tools for MySQL admins

    The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems

  • IT admins commandeer network resources to run game servers

    Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told Network World that hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators, he said.

  • Customised malware attacks grow increasingly widespread

    The rising popularity of custom malware and the inability of antivirus software to keep pace poses potent challenges for enterprises trying to keep their systems secure.

  • Twenty glorious years of Windows malware

    Windows PCs have been under siege for 20 years. What a difference those two decades make.

  • Best free server tools for Microsoft admins

    "Free" is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V, IT admins know functionality comes at a price. More surprising, however, is the wealth of server tools Microsoft offers for free, some of which can, in the right contexts, provide an adequate substitute for the paid versions of Microsoft's more intriguing server products.

  • We should run the Internet like a proper infrastructure

    Why don't we make the Internet a real infrastructure, with the sort of oversight that benefits commercial air travel?

  • Most VMware customers virtualise Microsoft Exchange, but not SAP and Oracle

    VMware says data proves customers are virtualising mission-critical applications. Half of VMware's customer base is virtualising Microsoft Exchange and 65% virtualise SQL Server, but the majority of VMware customers are not virtualising SAP and Oracle applications, according to survey data released by VMware.





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