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Please forgive the IT Dog  for channeling a little AC/DC today.  I needed some way to get ‘highway’ and ‘data’ in the same sentence and you’ll see in a minute why ‘Highway to Hell’ is appropriate here. I was reading a blog on the Neve...
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .025 – New Studio Edition Hosts: Matt Yonchak (@mattyonchak), Patrick Sayler (@psayler), Ian Gillespie,...Read More
London, United Kingdom, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage today announced that the SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server is now available to be used with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). SMEStorage has delivered its Cloud File Server product to be used by customers who have pr...
Last time we mentioned two fundamental principles while monitoring any object: 1. The monitor should collect as much important information as possible that will allow to accurately evaluate the health state of an object. 2. The monitor should have little to no effect on the activity of...
London, United Kingdom, May 09, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Vehera LTD, trading as SMEStorage, today announced that it has integrated the BaseCamp® project management cloud solution into its hosted SaaS or hybrid Cloud File Server platform. SMEStorage already works with over 35 informatio...
COSTA MESA, Calif, May 8, 2012 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the introduction of a family of new OneConnect® Network Xceleration™ solutions for the High Performance Networking (HPN) market. Emulex is bringing its new family of OneConnect (OC)e12000 10Gb Eth...
8 May 2012, Reading, UK - Adax (www.adax.com), an industry leader in high-performance packet-processing, security and network infrastructure, today announced that its Application Ready Platform has been chosen by Torres Networks (www.torresnetworks.com), an innovative Policy Control, N...
The IGEL Universal MultiDisplay solution increases productivity by allowing workers to use three to eight monitors in parallel at the workstationReading, UK, May 8th, 2012 - IGEL Technology today launched its new IGEL Universal MultiDisplay software solution to allow specialist workers...
In the mid-1990s, a Statistics professor at UNC reported an IT problem: he couldn't send email more than 500 miles away. He'd had geostatisticians plot the sites where emails could be sent successfully and where they bounced, and found they described a circle a radius slightly over 500...
Whenever a new technology appears, there is a short period of time where every body with an idea about branding want’s to “coin a phrase” or be the “first” to use a term.  As much fun as I am sure all that may be, the problem is that when the technology le...
Berlin, Germany, May 03, 2012 --(PR.com)-- win.rar GmbH and RARLAB are proud to present to the public the first Beta version of WinRAR 4.20. Users will realize that the compression speed is up to three times higher than in previous versions and the improvements are valid for RAR and Z...
London, UK — May 3rd, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will ...
London, UK May 3, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to...
Vancouver, Canada, April 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Hosting Controller Inc. (www.hostingcontroller.com) today announced that its cloud hosting automation solution has been validated by Microsoft for Exchange 2010 SP2 and it has also attained Silver ISV and Software Development competencies...
New Ultra Safe key security and management solution to support elliptic curve cryptographyLOUDWATER, UK (April 24, 2012) - Ultra Electronics AEP Networks, the provider of trusted security, has announced the launch of Ultra Safe Keyper Plus, the first FIPS 140-3 level 4 ready hardware s...
Bothell, WA, April 24, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Datalight announced today that it has released Reliance Nitro 2.7, the first full-featured file system for Android. The new Android file system combines strong read and write performance with fast mount time, rock-solid reliability, a comprehen...
Webinars, seminars and summit passes (all in one place!)   APRIL 2012   Savor New Ideas with Unitiv's Brown-Bag Seminars Why the Future of the Cloud is Open Get Started on the Cloud...at No Charge! Gather ...
49 companies from 17 countries represented[London, 19 April 2012] The finalists for the European IT Excellence Awards 2012 - the leading pan-European awards event for Solution Provider and Systems Integrator channels - were announced today by IT Europa. A total of 49 companies from 17 ...
Paris, France, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Essential Summarizer comes in a wide range of software and solutions, to figure out instantaneously multilingual contents and create an automatic summary for efficient reading. Essential Summarizer produces automatically a summary with a set...
Reading, UK April 17th 2012 Fast growing Executive Search company Freshfield Services has cut its annual IT budget by more than 35% per year after switching to Alchemy Systems hosted virtual desktop solution and IGEL thin clients.Freshfield Services, which specialises in finding talent...
We have a lot of news on the mobile front this week; This is unsurprising given that the mobile sector is expanding so fast that some have taken to calling today the “Post-PC Era”.  We all know very well that it’s not over yet, but it’s exciting to see such prolific changes in our day-...
Today I want to share with you some ideas about Web Oriented Storage System (WOSS) monitoring on databases and will use Riak as an example. I won’t be discussing here what’s meant by  ”web oriented” or “storage system”, I am assuming that you are alr...
With an objective to deliver an end-to-end cloud data security solution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat customers, Porticor – a company offering cloud data security solutions – recently joined the Red Hat Innovate program. By joining the Red Hat Innovate program, Porticor ...
Porticor announced it has joined the Red Hat Innovate program, and will be now be able to access the openness and collaborative nature of open source communities and enjoy the benefits of Red Hat software. Porticor plans to offer a new end-to-end cloud data security based on Red Hat. B...
AccuRev released for general availability today the first Git integration that seamlessly bridges the world of commercial tools and open source software configuration management. AccuRev’s Kando, an enterprise security and compliance platform for Git, which was released in beta in Janu...
M3 – The Custom Monitors Swiss Tool M3 has been around for a while, receiving numerous improvements on the way. We can gladly announce it as a mature infrastructure now for server monitoring, together with Monitis. M3 lets you, the end user, easily configure checks and upload the data ...
Porticor®, the leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer keys are never exposed, today announced it has joined the Red Hat Innovate™ program, enabling Porticor to leverage the powe...
New release helps software vendors & intelligent device manufacturers package, license and monetise software more quickly and flexibly Maidenhead, UK - April 3, 2012 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and ent...
London, United Kingdom, March 30, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage today announced that it has worked with HostingSolutions.it, the premier Italian Cloud Storage Service, to add it as a supported service to the SMEStorage Cloud federation platform. The HostingSolutions.it storage clouds c...
Once you have created a secured disk on Porticor, it is almost trivial to build a highly-available RAID solution on top of it. We will demonstrate a RAID level 1 (mirrored) solution, but it can easily be extended to more sophisticated RAID levels. Create a disk, and expose it as an iSC...
The Exhibitor List for the 2012 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference is up at http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis12/exhibitor_list.html Many of the firms there are technology firms, which is why this is one of the great events of the year. The text below is based on the current exhibitor list.  This eve...
The Ins and Outputs of TCPDUMP By: Nicholas Beris As a Network Engineer, I spend a lot of time on,...Read More
Okay, I admit it, when I solve a particularly confoundingproblem, I like to get up, proclaim “Victory Lap!” and walk around in a smallcircle (Sometimes two for bigger problems). I think it's important to celebratedevelopment successes particularly when they result in helping to really ...
I don’t get to do much development anymore these days but over the past couple months I have been spending some time learning and playing around with MapReduce and Hadoop.  Here’s a list of resources I found useful to help me get up to speed with this stuff. Conceptual Unde...
February was the birthday of one of the most important Free&Open Source projects: the Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”), very often simply called Apache, or Apache webserver. The project was started 1995, and since April 1996 has become the most popular webserver on the Inte...
This week in computer security wasn’t as rough as in weeks past, with few major breaches or attacks of note.  The real news this week comes in the form of leaked documents, exploits, and emails and an interesting operating system supposedly from the Anonymous collective. Anonymous OS: ...
Hacktivist group Anonymous has released a statement distancing itself from the recently released operating system that shares the group’s name. The OS, a Linux-based download from Source Forge, has been downloaded over 26,000 times in recent days. While security researchers are s...
Another Reason Why SSDs Are Not HDDsIt is fairly common knowledge that SSDs differ from HDDs in many ways.  SSDs have faster IO, have no moving parts, use less power and cost more money per gigabyte.  There are other, more subtle differences between the two storage devices an...
DR sites are typically built as an exact replica of the primary site. Application and database software is installed on DR site and sits there mostly unused, waiting for a disaster to happen. DR site is very expensive proposition than only large companies are able to afford. Amazon AWS...
ntop bandwidth monitor ntop is a very simple yet powerful bandwidth monitor which outputs various statistics counters in RRD. RRD – Round Robin Database – is a very handy framework for saving server performance counters in a ring buffer. We can say that if we would like to graph networ...