Archive for April, 2009

New Developments In Open Source Online Security Software

Online security has always been a hot issue ever since the Internet first came into being. Users are still in search of that elusive perfect safety that will effectively keep all kind of Internet hooligans out of their private connections. Today, the world is becoming open source. Everything from arcade games to high end information portals are going open source. It is but inevitable then that security applications also go open source. The wave has already begun, if you check out applications...

Service Processor Management

Preventing datacenter downtime is a top priority for datacenter managers, and for good reason. Across every industry, lost hourly revenue due to downtime is very expensive. Recent studies estimate that downtime costs as much as $2.8M per hour in lost revenue for firms in the energy industry, more than $2M per hour for firms in telecommunications, and $1M -$1.6M per hour for companies in other sectors, including manufacturing, finance, and information technology.(1) Even on good days, datacenter...