Monitoring
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Downturn chops, delays HK IT projects
News One in five businesses have canceled IT projects that were underway, while over 80 percent are cutting or freezing IT investments, new survey finds.
Tags: IT Governance, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Survey, Hong Kong, accountability, business strategy, IT governance, monitoring
Politicians should stay out of Net policing
Insight perspective The law cannot hope to keep up with the Internet, and just hampers innovation, says industry expert.
Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government, Domain Name, OSI, monitoring, network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, ISO
Tighter budgets but airlines still focus on IT
News Some airlines focus on tech to improve passengers' travel experience, while IT-based onboard merchandising offers carriers another revenue source.
Tags: Music devices, Business development/management, Airline, TV, Semiconductor Industry Association, aircraft, entertainment, phone, monitoring, Web
Monitoring staff e-mail and Internet: Dos and don'ts
News Should you be keeping an eye on the inboxes of your workers or not? Here are dos and don'ts for monitoring staff e-mail and Internet usage.
Tags: E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Security implementation/standards, Web sites, IT Governance, Communications, Staff E-mail, Malware, compliance, e-mail
Opposition mounts against P2P disconnection plan
News Proposals in the United Kingdom to disconnect the broadband service of suspected illegal file-sharers have come under fresh attack from ISPs, rights groups, and creative artists' groups.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Proposal, Consultation, Signatory, P2P, British Telecommunications, file-sharing, Internet Service Provider, lobbyist
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
UK govt Web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News Traffic-switching organization, London Internet Exchange, says proposals to monitor all Web communications are technologically impractical.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Network security, data retention, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Government, e-mail, monitoring, Internet
VMware buys SpringSource for US$420M
News VMware will pay US$420 million for privately held SpringSource to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Open source, Virtualization, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), PaaS, monitoring, data center
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News Open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring.
Tags: Open source, Business Strategies & Functions, Database management, Network administration/implementation, Strategic analysis, Forrester Research Inc., Open-source Database, RFID, Database, PostgreSQL
Monitorix makes server-monitoring easy
Techguide While it's important to get a remote view of your servers with tools like Nagios, it's not always easy to get a full "local" view of things like CPU load and network service demand. Monitorix can fill in the gaps of your monitoring needs.
Tags: Open source, Server platforms, Diagnostics and monitoring, SSH, network device, Telnet, RPM Package, Monitorix RPM, Server, monitoring
Learning more about Nagios
Techguide Nagios is a very powerful tool for server monitoring, but the learning curve can be steep for newcomers. A resource may help.
Tags: Open source, Server platforms, Infrastructure/architecture management, Chapter, Plug-in, SNMP, font size, IMAP4, Nagios, Server
Facebook attacks UK govt Web-monitoring plans
News Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business.
Tags: Privacy, Traffic Data, Attack, Bebo, Facebook, IM, monitoring, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet
US Justice Dept, Microsoft agree to extension of oversight
News U.S. antitrust regulators will continue monitoring Microsoft for up to another 18 months. Meanwhile, the company reportedly receives an extension to respond to European antitrust regulators in their case.
Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, software company, operating system, Server, software, monitoring, Microsoft Windows
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News Beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder have been released, promising better integration with Microsoft Office and Adobe's Flash platform.
Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Allaire ColdFusion, development environment, Software, Environment, Server, monitoring, IDE, Microsoft Office
Aust competition watchdog eyes Oracle-Sun buy
News The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission says it has begun monitoring Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but provides no further details on its concerns.
Tags: App servers, Databases, Servers, Australian Competition And Consumer Commission, Larry Ellison, Database, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, monitoring, Oracle Corp.
