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India builds a mega data center
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and...
HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds
Hewlett-Packard has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT...
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry...
MetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to...
Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence
In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently...
Internet group seeks wider input for BIND 10
The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for a few more good programmers to bring the next generation of its open source BIND DNS server software...
ISC seeks wider input for BIND 10
The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for a few more good programmers to bring the next generation of its open source BIND DNS server software...
Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis
With the newest update of its machine-data search engine, Splunk has expanded the user interface in a number of ways so it can be more easily used by...
CIOs Disconnected From Business Execs
CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey
Who's Above Average?
The most business-savvy CIOs tend to report to the CEO, lead a non-IT area, and make more money than average CIOs
Quick Windows Networking Fixes
Setting up and maintaining your home PC network is easier than ever before in Windows 7--but that's not saying much. Many networking issues still...
Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection
A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as...
Watching the watchers
While there's no single fix, a number of experts weigh-in on how to make certain those with privileged access don't abuse it.
Amazon's private clouds get more advanced networking features
Amazon Web Services has introduced Elastic Network Interfaces, which are attached to instances in a private cloud to allow for more flexibility when...
With great privilege comes great responsibility
While additional IT privileges are part of IT management, recent incidents and a number of surveys show many organizations don't do what's...
Scottrade's Bank Forged a Non-Banking Customer Experience Through a CEO-CIO Partnership
The goal was online banking at brokerage speed with seamless integration of platforms
How to Avoid Future Shock
Too many senior executives get strategic planning wrong because they don't know how to interpret trends, says consultant Daniel Burrus
3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches
Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since they have many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature...
CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs
As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, William McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies, spoke at the recent CA World...
Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds
There is a lot of badly engineered software in the world that's creating a lot of risk to businesses and organizations, and accumulating so-called...