From the May 23, 2008 issue: It begins: Buying PCs is a central task for IT managers, but it’s hardly an easy one. For one (obvious) thing, you cannot just buy new computers the way people order lattes. It not only takes a lot of thought and planning, but it rarely gets accomplished overnight. “Even [...]
Tagged desktops, Endpoint Technologies Associates, notebooks, PC, Roger KayFrom the May 16, 2008 issue: It begins: So much buzz has surrounded virtualization that the reality of managing it within the enterprise has gotten lost. And most, if not all, enterprise networks using virtualization use it within a mixed environment of the physical and virtual. Complete article: Managing ‘Hybrid’ Virtualization Environments Technorati Tags: Processor [...]
Tagged hybrid virtualization environments, Processor Magazine, ScriptLogic, Surgient, VirtualizationFrom the May 2, 2008 issue: Here’s the first tip: Know What You’re Cooling Bob Blough, director of product marketing at Liebert Precision Cooling (www.liebert.com), says too often data center managers rely on a building’s general air-conditioning system to cool their data rooms and then are caught off guard when a hot spot in the [...]
Tagged AFCO Systems, automation, Canvas Systems, Cassatt, cooling, Data Center, Enterprise Management Associates, Liebert Precision Cooling, Processor MagazineFrom the April 25, 2008 issue: It begins: A few months ago, a group of researchers at Princeton University published a highly publicized study showing that DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) could be flash-frozen, enabling intruders a way to download encryption keys to hard drives and subsequently exploit information from them. “Security experts have known about [...]
Tagged Arxan, DRAM, encryption, Princeton, Security, Utimaco, Voltage Security