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Security attacks jump 80 percent
News The number of security events detected by companies in the first quarter of 2003 jumped nearly 84 percent over the preceding three months, according to a report that network-protection firm Internet Security Systems plans to release on Monday.
[April 4, 2003, 9:42]
Vital intrusion detection
News When unauthorised activity is detected, the sensor can send alarms to a management console with details of the activity and can control other systems, such as routers, to terminate the unauthorised session(s).The Secure IDS Director is a software...
[May 15, 2002, 14:49]
HP converges on the datacentre
News The suite, called HP Converged Infrastructure, consists of management systems for the virtualised datacentre — both hardware and software — and a new network management fabric. HP announced its systems for a converged virtualised datacentre on...
[November 4, 2009, 16:06]
Windows 7 v Ubuntu 9.10: an illustrated guide review
Reviews Tools to help with large-scale rollouts are available for both operating systems. In theory it should be no harder to print from an Ubuntu desktop than Windows 7, as drivers for use with a variety of local and network devices are included in each...
[October 26, 2009, 13:34]
API Calls that break under Windows 7
Blog As mentioned in the Microsoft Compatibility tool-kit, the Developer cookbook and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN - see references below) there is a section called "Safe Exception handling" under Windows 7 that refers to the deprecation (end of...
[October 5, 2009, 10:34]
Toshiba to launch Bluetooth card
News Another obstacle, though more minor, is that Bluetooth support is not yet built into operating systems, such as Microsoft's Windows or Linux. Integrated Bluetooth systems is "really a 2001 thing," he said.
[September 14, 2000, 9:23]
Sun's 'Orion' hunts for simpler software
News One, a beefed-up version of its containers strategy code-named Kevlar, will move Sun in the direction IBM and Hewlett-Packard have taken in trying to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same computer.
[February 26, 2003, 8:13]
Jini aims to prove it can grant wishes
News Devices tapping into the network must contain some Java code, but they also can run other systems in addition to Java. Sun officials say that because Jini has been designed with networked devices in mind, it lacks the cumbersome code of operating...
[January 25, 1999, 9:45]
SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium
News Read the latest headlines at ZDNet UK's Operating Systems News Section. To showcase the prowess of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, the company also announced that the software has been tapped to power parts of the Distributed Terascale Facility...
[March 26, 2003, 15:18]
IBM plans top-end 'Armada' Unix server
News Current systems require a separate network card for each copy of the operating system. Running multiple operating systems at once, something IBM's top-end mainframe line has been adept at for years, is useful for a variety of functions.
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
Virtualisation will power utility computing
News And by extending virtualisation from the processor to encompass input-output as well, Big Blue will enable Power5 partitions to share connections to the network and storage systems instead of requiring a separate physical adapter for each partition.
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
Markets fall in love with Linux
News VA Linux also makes desktop systems that use the renegade operating system, and it supports them as well. Red Hat's stock performance proved there is a huge appetite for shares related to Linux, the "open-source" operating system that was developed...
[December 7, 1999, 13:21]
IBM promises rewards from utility vision
News The Orchestrator product can deal with directly attached or network-attached storage systems today, with support for storage area networks (SANs) due by year-end. In the case of IBM Unix servers or other products that can run several operating...
[September 2, 2003, 9:10]
US Report: IMAP Worm strikes again
News The intrusion appears to be aimed at Internet service providers' Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) servers, which manage e-mail systems. The program quietly takes over key components of the root, or central, program and uses the host computer...
[November 30, 1998, 17:51]
Novell attacks Microsoft pricing
News In the filing, Novell accused Microsoft of "exploiting its desktop operating monopoly in a way that is designed to extend its market power into the market for server operating systems, and to claim control of network and Web services such as...
[September 16, 2002, 15:41]
StarOffice designer launches software firm
News Not only will it allow administrators to automatically update operating systems and applications, but it will let phone users save preference information on a network and transfer it automatically to other devices.
[March 12, 2002, 13:52]
Cisco source code leaks onto Web
News The security of Microsoft's operating systems has not significantly suffered from the hundreds of megabytes of source code leaked to the public. An unspecified amount of the proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware has...
[May 17, 2004, 10:20]
AMD goes 'Live' with media-centre offerings
News The chipmaker is also launching AMD Live Entertainment Suite, which is designed to offer applications and services to assist users in designing and operating their digital entertainment systems. Last month, PCs loaded with Intel's Viiv dual-core...
[May 31, 2006, 15:35]
Six deals done for NHS IT
News Cisco Systems will provide network equipment, such as data centre high speed switches, content switches and routers for the N3 broadband network. Commenting on the arrangements, Gordon Hextall, NPfIT's chief operating officer, said: "Innovative...
[August 12, 2004, 16:40]
Will Wall Street's Linux love affair last?
News V-One's stock was trading at 1 11/16 in early November before rocketing up to a close of 13 1/2 Tuesday after it announced a virtual private network product that supports both the Windows CE and Linux operating systems.
[December 2, 1999, 9:21]
