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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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., Cooper, Singapore, content delivery, managed services
Can cable faults ever go away?
News Telcos have stepped up measures in recent years to improve redundancy and re-routing efforts during cable disruptions, but costs and nature still stand in the way.
Tags: Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Disaster recovery, Starhub, Ovum, SingTel, Asia, cable system, Cable, e-mail
Avaya's Nortel buy could cause trouble for Cisco
News If Avaya succeeds in bid, the new entity would be "a very credible challenger" to Cisco in Australia's enterprise telephony market, according to analyst.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Acquisitions, Competitive advantage, Nortel Networks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Australia, Sales, Optus
Cisco replaces Nortel in key 2012 Olympics role
News London 2012 organizer reveals it has ended its contract with bankrupt infrastructure supplier "on good terms", and appoints tier 2 sponsor Cisco to helm role instead.
Tags: Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Business Strategies & Functions, Service level management, Nortel Networks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, wireless technology, network infrastructure
HP turns telepresence into Webcasting
News New feature for HP's high-end Halo teleconferencing kit allows users to broadcast conferences to thousands of viewers on the Web.
Tags: LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Webcasting, Webcast, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, video, VoIP/IP telephony, LANs and WANs, network
Chinese firms continue network equipment spend
News Boosted by finance and public sector spending, China's enterprise networking equipment market will grow to US$4.3 billion in 2012, predicts Springboard Research.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Network security, IT Budget, e-governance, Asia-Pacific, network equipment, public sector, network, China
US govt eases restrictions on US telecom firms in Cuba
News The White House announces a shift in policy toward Cuba to allow for greater telecommunications links to the communist country.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Networking technology, Mobile/Wireless, Satellite, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Cuba, Cable, phone, White House
