System Monitoring
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Ten ways SMBs can cut costs in a slow economy
Insight Even if your small business is holding its own, there are steps you should take to keep costs under control. Here are 10 practical ways to lower expenses.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Business, Security, Physical Security, Money, Small And Medium Business, Small Business
A way to a services culture
Insight Prevention is better than cure--service-oriented architecture (SOA) helps reduce bottlenecks and raise service levels.
Tags: Web services, Service level management, XML
Preventing data loss--what's needed
Insight perspective Though there are plenty of tools to help businesses shore up data, the lack of policy standards makes the task more difficult than it should be, says analyst.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security applications/tools, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, IBM Corp., Security, Policy, LDAP, Server
Systems administrator's role changing via the cloud
News Commoditization of e-mail services, instant messaging. document storage and backups via the cloud is rendering many systems-administrator functions obsolete, says Google's sysadmin.
Tags: Desktops, Help desk, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Search Engine, Cloud Computing, system monitoring, Computer, Help desk, Nintendo Wii
Send messages and alerts from the command line
Techguide Here's a look at two command-line programs, wall and mail, that allow you to send simple alerts and e-mail messages to users.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Message, GUI, Wall, Tool, system monitoring, Unix system, instant messenger, Command Line
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor
10 ways to manage your risk with Web applications
Techguide Web apps are becoming popular, but there are legitimate concerns about security and reliability. Learn how to address potential risks and choose the right vendor.
Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Risk Management, Vendor, Disaster Recovery, Security, Tool, Polly Schneider Traylor, Web Application, performance
IBM tightens knot with Eclipse
News Big Blue's plan to use Eclipse open-source software as the link for better integration of its own development tools gets off to a start with a rewrite of its Rational products.
Tags: Open source
VMware security bug exposed
News Security vendor Core Security Technologies claims VMware has failed to fix a severe bug in its virtualization software.
Tags: Operating systems
Windows memory issue clogs some Compaq PCs
News Compaq Computer attempted to snuff out a problem with some Presario consumer PCs that is caused by interactions with Windows 98 yesterday.
Tech execs want green data centers
News Business leaders from Cisco Systems, IBM and Cadence say at a tech conference that they are examining ways to make data centers more energy efficient. Can they cool down those hot rooms?
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., venture capital, software, energy efficiency, Eric Schmidt, China, U.S.
Execute local Nagios checks on remote systems
Techguide Vincent Danen shows how you can monitor remote services and local statistics with a little bit of work and planning.
Why Wi-Fi has to change--or else
Insight Ruckus Wireless CEO Selina Lo says Wi-Fi isn't up to the task of supporting the new apps and handheld devices entering the market.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Mobile/Wireless
Should your business cut the telco cord?
Insight Whether you're a one-person enterprise or a business with sights on the international market, VoIP can save you money. But is the time right to forego landlines altogether?
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP
Plan for the less destructive data center incidents
Techguide You can plan for smaller-scale disasters just like you do the big ones. Mike Talon focuses on network performance monitoring.
