Opinion

How to enforce password complexity on Solaris

Buskers: Better Than Booth Babes

Whereas other Interop vendors recently blew bucks on booth babes, ExtraHop got props for entertaining attendees with hourly performances by national yo-yo champion Joseph Harris. Please tell me this is the future of IT events!

Citrix Synergy 2012

At Citrix Synergy 2012 they focused on three themes that have the potential to influence customers to rethink Citrix.

The Tablet Claw promo video shows just how boring our lives have become

Video shows a horrifying world where people only talk to one another if they appear on screens

US grabs more domain names, $1.4 million from online counterfeit operations

Department of Justice takes out online counterfeiters doing business from China

Facebook’s proposed app store: I think this could actually work

The app store market is overcrowded but Facebook has the chops to pull it off

Will Ruckus Wireless go to hell for this ad campaign?

WiFi issues "public apology" after being accused of attempting to gain control of mankind's souls via electron manipulation

Plantronics continues to evolve devices

Cisco’s not on board, but is Shortest Path Bridging winning?

Generates most of discussion, with production examples, at Interop session; Cisco speaker disappears from session participant list

WAN Virtualization is the next-generation complement to WAN Optimization

Reliability, multi-path WAN support the key to supporting real-time applications and cloud access.

Here’s Microsoft’s Impressive Green Datacenter Initiative, Set to Launch this Summer

Despite not being in the hardware business, the software firm plans to go carbon neutral. Here's how they will do it.

Let me get off your *&%$ list

Support etiquette

Some tips to help the IT support process go over smoothly.

Database In The Cloud: Which Option Is Best?

NoSQL, MySQL, PosgreSQL. So many DBs, so little time

Apple accuses Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence

On May 1, Apple filed a motion in the Northern District of California alleging that Samsung intentionally destroyed documents it was obligated to hand over as part of the discovery process, an act referred to as "spoliation of evidence" in the legal

Training workers to be cyber safe

Best of Interop Awards called out for product no-show

Cisco product was a no show at Interop

Are they a contender or pretender? Can Huawei survive in North America?

Will enterprise customers take a chance on them?

Here’s another problem with ‘off the record’

Example comes from excellent msnbc.com story about pundit's bogus Pulitzer claim

Why Mark Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie should reassure investors

As Facebook continues to make preparations ahead of its IPO, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook bigwigs are making the rounds talking to investors. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg, while attending an investor meeting in New York

Vim Undo Tips and Tricks

FBI Chief dishes on technology, insider threats and cyber criminals

FBI Director Robert Mueller calls for more industry wiretap support

Are you Touchy About your Appliances?

The disappearance of the physical appliance.

It’s time for Interop to go back to the future

The case for reverting to Interop's old days, when interoperability still mattered.

What a Psychopath Can Teach Us About Information Security

How Blake from Downtown would approach IT security

Microsoft revamps chkdsk tool in Windows 8 to minimize downtime

A new NTFS health model and updated chkdsk tool in Windows 8 work together to resolve corruption issues much faster than previous versions of Windows.

Cool hacks: DIY cellphones and a magic trackpad rethink

Which one is not like the others?

Spotted in Google Books

US sets $1.4M to get unique metaphor-recognizing software system humming

Illinois Institute of Technology, MIT, Georgetown University part of team

Communities can be the driving ‘Force’ for sustainable customer value

Star Wars and vendor-supported community support. Not so different after all.