The State of Today's Data Center
Data center managers are caught between a rock and a hard place. They are expected to do more than ever—including protecting rapidly expanding volumes of data and a growing number of mission-critical applications, managing highly complex and wildly heterogeneous environments, meeting more challenging service level agreements (SLAs), and implementing a variety of emerging "green" business initiatives. ..... More >>>>>>
A Spam Update
In early November 2008, a new chapter in the history of spam was written when spam levels suddenly dropped by an unprecedented 65 percent. The reason? Upstream network providers had just shut down access to systems hosted by Silicon Valley-based McColo Corp., which had allegedly been hosting a significant number of bot command-and-control systems.Less than two weeks later, one of the primary botnets impacted by the takedown, Srizbi, resurrected from another part of the world and spam levels began rising again. ..... More >>>>>>
A Positive Bottom-Line Effect
In virtually every corner of every major industry, it’s hard to envision a future without paper. Whether it’s contracts, documentation, correspondence, invoices, agreements, or other documents, paper remains a dominant medium for business communication. Nonetheless, companies of every size are continually searching for new and smarter ways to manage that flood of paper. That’s because the process of creating, sharing, editing, printing and copying documents creates increasingly unacceptable costs ..... More >>>>>>
