Ubuntu Remains Best Linux Distribution for Desktops

Ubuntu 8.10 still outshines the Linux desktop offerings from Red Hat and Novell, and is the best open-source alternative to…

15 years ago

BlackBerry Storm Lacks Punch

RIM's BlackBerry Storm smartphone offers all the enterprise features that businesses have come to know and love, and that Apple's…

15 years ago

Fedora 10 a Solid Linux Choice for Workstations, Development Servers

The latest version of Fedora, the Linux-based operating system, gives users a peek at what they can expect to see…

15 years ago

Google Chrome Web Browser Shines

No longer a beta, Google's Chrome Web browser is an able challenger to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome…

15 years ago

Office 2008 Leaves Mac Users Wanting

While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts…

15 years ago

Apple Services Keep Apps Fresh

Software Update Server and client-side update tools form the core of the patching model.

15 years ago

Scaling Apps on the Google App Engine

It's been almost a year since Google introduced the beta of its Google App Engine, and eWEEK Labs wants to…

15 years ago

Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More

Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, on open source and interoperability, software modeling and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.

15 years ago

How to Ensure a Successful VoIP System Implementation

Some enterprise VoIP systems are all but unusable from the time they are implemented because nobody took the time to…

15 years ago

SOA: Wanted Dead or Alive

Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes set off a storm of IT industry chatter around the viability of SOA when…

15 years ago

Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak

Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this…

15 years ago

Inside Mobile: Why eBooks and eBook Readers Will Eventually Succeed

Reading eBooks from eBook readers similar to the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will eventually be the preferred reading method…

15 years ago

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business

Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage.…

15 years ago

How to Protect Data During a Virtual Migration

Server virtualization has become a popular trend in enterprise IT. When migrating from a physical to a virtual environment, IT…

15 years ago

11 Best Practices to Save on Data Centre Power

Data centre managers could save millions of kilowatt hours annually by implementing 11 best practices, says analyst company Gartner. Most…

15 years ago

Six Tips to Build Your Brand

Social networking tools such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others offer SMBs new ways to build communities and your brand.…

15 years ago

Will SMBs Spend on Virtualization in 2009?

While some reports suggest small businesses won't be slashing through IT budgets in 2009, is the average midmarket company willing…

15 years ago

Database Vendors Should Push Data Masking for Enterprise Security

Database and application vendors may want to take a look at expanding their data masking capabilities as its relevance grows.…

15 years ago

VKernel Capacity Analyzer a Strong Tool in VMware Environments

VKernel's Capacity Analyzer 2.0 can use VMware VirtualCentre statistics to offer clarity in virtualization deployments. However, the virtualization tool is…

15 years ago

Five Tech Trends to Watch in 2009

Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping…

15 years ago

SSL Crack Shows You Must Advance Your Security

The successful creation of a rogue certificate authority by security researchers using a colliding certificates attack demonstrates that if you're…

15 years ago

Direct-Attached Storage Coming of Age in Web 2.0 World

Despite talk about iSCSI, Fibre Channel and 4/10GB Ethernet connectivity, analystss estimate that DAS still comprises about 70 percent of…

15 years ago

Your Guide to the Top 5 Green Energy-Efficient IT Certifications

Deciding to build a green, energy-efficient IT infrastructure is easier than choosing which servers, data storage and virtualization products will…

15 years ago

Should Your Corporate Head Be in the E-Mail Cloud?

Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits.

15 years ago

Google Versus Microsoft: The Fight for the Future of Cloud Computing

While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies…

15 years ago

Apple’s Jobs to Take Medical Leave Until End of June

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence from his post until the end of June…

15 years ago

Vendors Tie Database Monitoring, Security Event Management

Security vendors such as Imperva and Guardium are increasingly tying security information management to database activity monitoring. The latest example…

15 years ago

Salesforce.com Rationalises InStranet Assets to Create Service Cloud

Salesforce.com's latest foray into cloud computing comes in the form of the Service Cloud. This is an effort to combine…

15 years ago

Sun Speaks Out on the Future of the Java Platform

Danny Coward, chief architect of the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems, on Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and…

15 years ago

Ruby on Rails and Merb to Merge to Create Rails 3

Ruby on Rails and rival Merb teams have finally decide to get along. Built on the same foundation, Rails and…

15 years ago