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Network costs plague Asian bourses
News To support transaction growth from facilitating foreign trading, region's stock exchanges will need to overcome rising network costs, notes data center operator.
Tags: Bandwidth, Network administration/implementation, Cost control, Equinix, Asia, network, Singapore, Server, stock exchange, North America
Data Robotics DroboPro
Reviews DroboPro is a business-class RAID storage array that accepts virtually any SATA disk on the market, supports iSCSI and pretty much looks after itself. What more could you want?
Tags: Robotics, Storage, USB, RAID, NAS, storage array, disk, Ethernet, Serial ATA, iSCSI
Tata targets high-end network services
News Tata Comms touts slew of varied investments in Asia-Pacific, in effort to beat competition from operators and content-delivery service providers.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Data centers, network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Singapore, Cooper, content delivery, managed services
Manage multiple systems with Parallel SSH
Techguide For a user caring for multiple systems, OpenSSH is extremely useful, but being able to execute OpenSSH commands in parallel is even more so.
Tags: Open source, Remote management, Command, Host, OpenSSH, SSH, Database, Tool, database backup, Pssh
Perspectives provides out-of-band verification for SSH
Techguide There is more to Perspectives than the Firefox extension for TLS/SSL validation.
Tags: Network security, PC security, Data security, Security, SSL, Perspectives, SSH Protocol, network, OpenSSH, SSH
Get network versatility with SSH tunneling and netcat
Techguide Vincent Danen explains how to use netcat with SSH tunneling when you need to create a secure connection to a server from a remote location.
Tags: Open source, Bastion, Authentication, ProxyCommand, network, OpenSSH, SSH, IP, Tool, Password
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Mozilla gives add-on developers a tip jar
News Creators of add-ons for Firefox now have a way to get paid for their work, at least through Mozilla's add-ons site.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Business applications, Web browsers, PayPal, Developer, micropayment, Mozilla Corp., Contributions, Mozilla Firefox, pilot program
Pedal-powered Christmas tree lights Copenhagen
News With international climate change talks a week away, host city takes its tannenbaum off-grid with a rack of bicycles powering LED lights.
Tags: Green IT, Tree, ViPS, climate change negotiation, Ceremony, climate change, Green IT, financial incentive, Copenhagen, Global Warming
Saudi faces tough time with cybercrimes
News Government official in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says "close to impossible" to completely eradicate "fast-developing" cybercrime techniques.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Commission, Malware, Cybercriminal, Saudi Arabia, e-mail hacking, Cybercrime, network
Windows 7 to come in 'Steve Ballmer' edition
News The "signature edition" of Windows 7 Ultimate is going to those hosting house parties. It bears a resemblance to the Bill Gates version of Vista.
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., John Hancock Financial Services Inc., Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, CompUSA Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
Efforts underway to ensure no shortlink rots
News Internet Archive and Archive Team running separate projects aimed at archiving shortened Web URLs, to ensure longevity of such links.
Tags: Web sites, Universal Resource Locators, Web sites, Service, Internet, Web Site, Web, termination
Ning officially launches apps platform
News Build-your-own-social-network service makes public a platform that lets users embed more than 90 apps and widgets for things like donation collections or ticket sales.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Google OpenSocial, Forbes, Marc Andreessen, social networking, online store, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0
Expert says Adobe Flash policy is risky
News Adobe Flash Player allows arbitrary content to access applications without permission, says researcher at Foreground Security.
Tags: Personal applications, Multimedia, Security Management, Web sites, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Security, Web sites, Web Browser, researcher
Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., Asia, network, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
