Increasingly, enterprises are making data center management choices that lead to a environmentally friendly company. Here are some recent green IT developments.
Setting up your own Asterisk installation isn't for the faint of heart, but the savings you can reap from combining the powerful, open source PBX with Linux are worth the effort. Here's a quick guide to getting your own Asterisk install up and running.
Buzzwords, inflated job descriptions and over-complex tools cause administrators to shy away from project management, but that's the last thing they need to be doing.
Multiple federal agencies have established a portal to solicit help from the private sector to devise new strategies and technologies to safeguard critical data networks.
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<b>Linux Planet:</b> "The newest Linux kernel release continues its rapid development pace, adding a pair of new filesystems and boosting virtualization performance."
<b>IT World:</b> "One of the constants in my interactions with the Linux and open source communities is that they--all of them--are out there, in the big wide world, while I remain ensconced in my fortress of solitude here in Northern Indiana."
Analysts predict a bright future for mobile cloud computing, finding that the number of enterprise customers using cloud-based mobile apps will mushroom.
EMC and HP are just two of many storage vendors with announcements at this week's VMworld show. Will there be big news from the VMware-Cisco-EMC alliance?
<b>eSecurity Planet:</b> "Symantec is ramping up its encryption software portfolio with the acquisitions of PGP and GuardianEdge for $300 million and $70 million, respectively."
<b>Linux and Microcontroller Tips:</b> "Automatic Print Driver Installation : gutenprint-packages such as cups, hpijs and pbm2l2030 must be installed on demand when the hardware that require drivers are detected."
In the coming months, the IBM Software Group plans to offer versions of its DB2 database and WebSphere application and portal servers for midsize businesses under the Express banner, said sources close to the company. DB2 Express is slated to be released early next year.
<b>Linux User & Developer: </b>"Besides being a HDD player and a full gigabit ethernet network streaming NAS box, it's also a media server (including Samba, NFS, UpnP, Bonjour and myiHome) and plays host to the MSP Portal, not to mention other third-party media server apps."
Charged with leading the Defense Department's new and long overdue cybersecurity unit, Gen. Keith Alexander made it clear that there's plenty for our country to worry about.