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Fujitsu unveils new S'pore data center
News Touted as the IT vendor's greenest in the region, the facility boasts features such as monitoring controls that help save up to 30 percent of customers' power bills.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, LANs and WANs, Thailand, Singapore, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Southeast Asia, business continuity, Fujitsu East Data Centre
Five ways to cut your telecom spend
Insight perspective Phones, mobiles and e-mail are essential to running any business. So how can you reduce telecoms costs? An analyst offers some advice.
Tags: Smart phones, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology, Mobile, Supplier, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Quocirca, Service
The dawn of unified communications
Insight The recession is forcing businesses to search for ways to cut costs--and unified comms is one place many will start, says analyst.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile, Web Conferencing, PBX, IP, ThinkGrid, On-demand, IP network
Telepresence--time to work together
Insight perspective Tired of your comms kit not working well with others? An analyst says it's time to push for compatibility in the telepresence space.
Tags: LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Standards, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Quocirca, Sales, Interoperability, phone
DNS resource records still open to malicious redirection
Techguide Attacks against DNS cache integrity are an easy way for criminals to redirect your unsuspecting users to malicious sites. Learn more about how DNS works and what exactly DNS cache poisoning is.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Domain names, NIST, Security, Domain Name, DNS Server, Entry, IP, IP Address
Batch scripting of Windows host file changes
Techguide DNS is the manageable way to resolve computer names to IP addresses, yet Windows admins usually use host files. When you need to make a change to a bunch of host entries, where do you start?
Tags: LANs and WANs, Microsoft Windows, Entry, IP, Tool, static IP address, IP Address, Sed, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, name resolution
Mitigating Net risks: 'More needs to be done'
News Securing cyberspace began 10 years ago and efforts continue, but effectiveness of recent initiatives depends on global uptake, says Asian Internet address body.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data security, LANs and WANs, Security, ICANN, Spokesperson, Singapore
Icann: Coders, ISPs vital to Net security
News Internet watchdog says DNSSEC encryption, which makes it harder for hackers to subvert Web traffic, will only work if developers and ISPs get behind it.
Tags: Domain names, Web 2.0, LANs and WANs, Security, Domain Name, ICANN, Internet Security, IP, DNS, Internet Service Provider
Open networks for 'tomorrow's Facebook'
News Asian economies need to ready their network infrastructure to support new and multiple services, and one way to do this is to adopt open standards, says Juniper exec.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Next-generation technology/networks, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Business applications, Mobile, Internet Access, Facebook, Open Networks, network
Nortel to provide London 2012 network infrastructure
News The communications equipment firm will supply BT with the infrastructure it will need for WANs, LANs, call centers and fixed-line telephony at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Networking technology, VoIP/IP telephony, Networking, Nortel Networks Corp., telephony, Vancouver, network, Olympic Games, call-center
City Telecom drops out of S'pore NBN bid
News Hong Kong-based telco has left Infinity consortium bidding for tender in Singapore's national broadband network project. Local carrier StarHub takes over as lead.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, LANs and WANs, Starhub, Mobile, Telecommunications, Singapore, consortium, computer telephony integration, FTTH, financial
APAC firms to tap on hosted UC in downturn
News Enterprise caution on IT spend in next two years will drive growth of hosted unified communications services in the Asia-Pacific region, predicts Frost & Sullivan.
Tags: Services, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Customer support, Asia-Pacific, Unified Communications Service, Service, ROI, unified communications services revenue
S'pore unaffected by damaged cables
News Following disrupted service, several telcos have begun restoring damaged undersea system SMW4, but SingTel claims it has not detected any issues.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Networking technology, SingTel, India, cable system, Singapore, Restoration Work, Sri Lanka, Cable, phone
Effects of damaged cables continue
News Issues from damaged SMW4 cable system that took out Internet and phone communications last week still persist, with Singapore now apparently affected.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Contingency planning, SingTel, Asia, India, Singapore, Europe, Cable, Traceroute, Contingency planning
Nortel mulls over restructuring plan
News Currently under bankruptcy protection, the networking vendor is working on reorganization strategy. For now, it's "business as usual", says company's Asian execs.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Business models, Business plans, Nortel Networks Corp., IBM Corp., Philippines, Business Process Outsourcing Industry, Europe, BPO, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
