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by Marcin Policht Book Review – “Hack Proofing Your Network” from Syngress Publishing “Hack Proofing Your Network“ from Syngress Publishing As the book proclaims, “the only way to stop a hacker is to think like one”. This seems to be a consistent approach across all the chapters, written by a collection of authors, known for […]

Michael Niehaus The Variables To get a reasonable idea of how much network traffic your SMS clients are generating when checking for new advertisements, please fill in the following details. If you have any questions about the specific values, see the “Explanation of Variables” section below. The Variables To get a reasonable idea of how […]

Green computing’s not just for tree huggers. Nowadays, it’s about saving money as well as resources. Each Monday, the Enterprise IT Planet Green Blog reports latest environmental-related IT news. Below are some of this week’s stories. Viridity Software and the Global Green Consulting Group announce a strategic partnership to leverage Viridity’s software solution during customer […]

Due largely to the popularity of virtualization, backups aren’t what they used to be. The amount of data to contend with has mushroomed and the technologies available to meet storage needs are increasingly complex. Enterprise IT Planet looks at one engineering firm’s travails and how it resolved them. With virtual servers on almost every enterprise’s […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO is asking employees to be prepared to support Oracle now that the European Commission has cleared the $7.4 billion purchase. According to Business Week, Sun, the fourth-biggest maker of server computers, is Oracle’s first purchase outside of the software market. Sun CEO wants employees to support Oracle, which is about to […]

OfficeIRC: Business-oriented chat server. As newer, shinier and frankly more convenient services replaced live chat, IRC was relegated to underground hobby status. OfficeIRC is counting on the protocol’s maturity and robustness, along with a host of features, to make the server a hit with businesses. In the early days of the Internet, Usenet was the […]

Still weighing the merits of running an open source Web server? Here are two sure-to-please options with something for everyone.

VShell Secure Shell Server: Secure replacement for telnet and FTP. Although VShell Secure Shell Server is frequently classified as a telnet server, it actually encrypts data for remote shell access and file transfer via SSH and SFTP. The latest version adds expanded trigger capabilities, SCP file transfers, and VShellConfig export and import to the mix. […]

Free or open source software (FOSS) programs are those licensed under terms that enable users to run the program for any purpose, modify the program as they see fit, and freely distribute copies of the original or a modified version.

In virtualization technology, the hypervisor is a software program that manages multiple operating systems (or multiple instances of the same operating system) on a single computer system.

A proxy server is vital to keeping your servers secure. If you’re running a Mac OS X powered server, such options are few. Here are two products to get you started.

Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, the acronym describes the most common combination of resources, also known as a “stack,” used by developers.