Compliance is a required attribute of networks and information technology infrastructure for some businesses, and a voluntary goal and best practice for others. No matter what you business’s interest in compliance, it can be a difficult web to navigate, with even the concept and definitions of compliance causing confusion for those involved in its maintenance. [...]
Silicion Graphics, Inc (SGI) started returning to form in 2007-2008 after some ill-advised forays into high-powered computing that took it away from what it does best, what it had always done: graphics, of course. Especially performance graphics.
When SGI introduced its Virtue VN200 (which featured the full integration of the latest generation of NVIDIA Quadro [...]
Discovery has always been important to legal proceedings. Poring through papers to find relevant documents was a huge part of what litigation support services offered in the days before computers. Discovery still matters, but ediscovery — the searching of electronic records — has a few critical differences from its paper counterpart. Email is used as [...]
Along with the ugly and constant news of layoffs comes reports like this latest one about a fired contractor at Fannie Mae who allegedly tried to create a “Server Graveyard.”
Rajendrasinh Makwana worked for three years for a subcontractor of OmniTech as a Unix engineer at Fannie Mae. According to this report at Betanews, his malicious [...]
Businesses can spend substantial amounts on network performance management - analyzing usage patterns, designing proper architecture and evaluating its impact. However, these carefully designed systems quickly become redundant when traffic that is unexpected, unsolicited or unwanted begins to sap bandwidth. No company wants excessive time and money wasted on private surfing. The first step to [...]
Many businesses nowadays cannot function at all without their computer systems - information technology infrastructure and networks have become an integral part of working life for many businesses. Network performance issues are less dramatic, but can have just as big an impact in the long term as the more spectacular and memorable system crashes. As [...]
For many organizations, the initial decision to employ the use of a mainframe or AS/400 centered around the system’s unprecedented stability. The term (RAS) was coined by IBM, and refers to the reliability, availability and serviceability of a system.
According to IBM, for a system to be considered reliable, it must be able to self-check [...]
There was a time about a year ago when I went into Best Buy, my expectations through the rough.
It was nearly a decade after buying my first computer, a 1999 Compaq, and I was tired of the constant lagging, the inexplicable slowness and the overall evil that was AOL. It was a momentous day in [...]
Today, many of these necessary processes can be automated and occur automatically with the right software asset management tools. Of the steps detailed above, only establishing software standards needs to be a manual process.
For many organizations, software assets provide strong financial and productivity benefits but have ongoing expenses; such as license renewals, true ups, [...]
Despite its brief history of just over twenty-five years, Sun MicroSystems’ record of eminent employees is a long list indeed. Some are long-standing staff who helped Sun accomplish its innovative advances in the technology industry. Others are people who have worked with Sun for a few years before moving on to do greater [...]
