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Article | 18/12/2010 How to check on your cloud provider

Potential cloud-services customers face a tough problem: How can they trust cloud providers enough to hire them when the providers refuse to reveal im...

Article | 16/12/2010 How to reduce WAN costs

There are basically two ways to cut WAN costs: reduce the amount of bandwidth used or find somebody who sells cheaper bandwidth.

Article | 14/12/2010 What to do if your Gawker password was violated

If you think your Gawker account has been compromised by this weekend's attack and you want to cancel it, you can't.

Article | 11/12/2010 Internet Society says attacks against WikiLeaks are illegal

Takedown attempts against WikiLeaks undermine what the Internet stands for, and those responsible should be tracked down and prosecuted, says the Inte...

Article | 7/12/2010 F5 gets more cloud-friendly

F5 is making file virtualization more cloud friendly with the introduction of software that translates storage protocols, making it possible to store ...

Article | 16/11/2010 Microsoft Lync: What you need to know

Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, pro...

Article | 23/10/2010 How to secure iPads for corporate use

When Apple's iOS 4.2 debuts next month, it will offer enough features to make the iPad tablet a device that's safe for business if IT security teams t...

Article | 22/10/2010 ShoreTel buys Agito for mobile networking gear

ShoreTel has bought Agito Networks for its wireless technology that enables handsets to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks while attached to c...

Article | 20/10/2010 The world's coolest data centers

Data centers gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are some data centers that try to do it with their own flair

Article | 18/10/2010 New malware technique targets intrusion-prevention systems

A recently discovered category of malware -- advanced evasion techniques -- can sneak through most intrusion-prevention systems to deliver even well-k...

Article | 14/10/2010 Survey: Costs of Office Communications Server too great for some organizations

Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) is perceived as too expensive to deploy and too complicated to manage, and many businesses lack the in-...

Article | 8/10/2010 Don't expect to peer into Google cloud services security

Customers of Google cloud services who are concerned about security better get used to being unable to check out first-hand how well their data is bei...

Article | 30/09/2010 Zeus botnet bank thieves were careless with own security

Suspects charged with stealing more than US$9.4 million from U.K. banks using the Zeus botnet apparently spent more time figuring out the logistics of...

Article | 29/09/2010 Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well

Cisco expects RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook to do well among businesses moving toward tablets, and help to augment customer demand for Cisco's WebEx s...

Article | 17/09/2010 Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil'

NEW YORK -- Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the infor...