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Beacon Auditor (zip)

One of the biggest challenges to network consultants today is performing fast, accurate network assessments for their clients. Network assessments are typically costly, time-consuming and incomplete. The Beacon Auditor Professional solves all of these problems with its portability and ultra-fast setup, scanning, and inventory. The Beacon Auditor Professional can revolutionize...

Tags: Network, Intepro, Network Assessment, Beacon Auditor Professional, Networking

Software downloads 2008-08-29

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Best practices group formed for IT data center managers

Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and hosting company Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Industry, Best Practice, E-business, Think Eco-Logical, Data Centers, Business Process Automation, Web Technology, Storage, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-05

UK plans lunar phone network

The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...

Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com

News items 2008-12-05

Citrix Netscaler 9 - AppExpertTemplates simplify deployment

Citrix recently lauched NetScaler 9, an application virtualization and delivery tool. The primary enhancement was the addition of sophisticated templates making deployment of applications via NetScaler dramatically simpler. Citrix describes the enhancements in the following way: NetScaler 9 introduces AppExpert Templates that capture hundreds of deployment...

Tags: NetScaler, Citrix Systems Inc., NetScaler AppExpert Templates, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market

Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it selling...

Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

The emerging case for open business methods

The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...

Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA

Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-04

AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending

AT&T said Thursday that it will cut about 12,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce, due largely to "economic pressures." The layoffs are beginning to sound like a broken record (or MP3). AT&T said it wants to streamline its operations as its business morphs to one...

Tags: Job, AT&T Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Telephony, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX

In the run-up to today's launch of JavaFX, ZDNet sat down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to get his thoughts on JavaFX, Flash, and the future of Java. [ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and JavaFX Q&A ] [Ed] Q. Why did Sun create...

Tags: Developer, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Audience, JavaFX, Ed, Jonathan, Microsoft Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...

Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-04

IPv6: What you need to know

Converting to IPv6 is a major undertaking -- which may be why there aren't more network administrators excited about it. But like it or not, it's headed your way. In this collection of articles, Michael Kassner addresses real-world issues like why IPv6 is needed, what improvements it offers, what security...

Tags: IPv6, Network Administrator, Michael Kassner, Networking, Telecommunications

Download resources 2008-12-04

Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program

Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure programI Think Obviously Not Windows-OnlyWell, I hope it was a case of the surveyors or researchers appropriately delimiting their sample. As to the ZDNet headline writers, perhaps, here, we meet our Dr. Pavlov.I was facilitating a skype roll-out at the office...

Tags: Operating systems, PC, insecure program, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Apple: You're a fool if you believe our ads

Apple: You're a fool if you believe our adsfine line probably crossed . . ..between puffery and lies but maybe they get off technically with their legal $$$ but the more interesting question . .why is Apple 'puffing' so heavily at all? Shouldn't something 'so cool' just sell itself...

Tags: Apple Inc., advertisement, fool

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Is Sprint watching you?

Is Sprint watching you?HmmmInteresting, but the feeds don't seem very accurate.... definitely cute though.RE: Is Sprint watching you?Yes, the site is a bit scattered and odd like. However, the purpose of the site was to show what the NOW Network looks like. This site shows you that you...

Tags: E-mail, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi

Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFiGood hospitals are learningWhen my wife was diagnosed with acute leukemia and sent directly to the hospital for 28 days of treatment WiFi couldn't reach her room at the end of the hall. I bought a better antennae for hospital IT to install...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, hospital, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Apple: Don't believe the iPhone 3G truth

Don't believe what Apple says in its iPhone 3G advertisements, even though the company claims it's not lying. In a nutshell, that's Apple's legal response to a lawsuit alleging misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G. You follow? The corporation's nine-page legal...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Live TV coming to the iPhone

Last100 reports that Livestation is negotiating with Apple to bring a version of its Internet TV application to the iPhone and iPod Touch. A working prototype already exists see video below that delivers Livestation's channel lineup of live television news stations on Apple's device, although this is likely to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel

The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...

Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Emulex Corp., Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Oracle, Emulex, Linux kernel, code, open source, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03