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Gartner approves iPhone for limited enterprise use
Blog It appears the Market research firm Gartner is giving a final cautious green light for using the iPhone in big business as it meets it's "appliance-level support status" having rejected the 1.0 2G phone out of the box.
[August 8, 2008, 9:20]
McAfee gives content filter a hardware boost
News The company is releasing a 3000 series appliance in place of its e1000, e500 and e250 predecessors. A recent report from analyst firm IDC said that by 2008, 85 percent of IT security solutions will be catered for by hardware appliances.
[October 19, 2004, 15:30]
Virtual appliances
Blog Download the appliance. There are some great possibilities here, not least for security - imaging firing up a browser on a dedicated OS. I first heard of virtual appliances a couple of years ago during a trip to Sweden to hear about Intel's AMT...
[October 11, 2006, 15:56]
Glorious, Glorious Spam
Blog Sniffing around for a topic of interest this weekend I came upon an e-mail informing me that Network Testing Labs (hang on a moment, I’ll come back to these guys) has found that in head-to-head testing, McAfee's single-appliance Secure Internet...
[September 30, 2007, 16:08]
Cisco announces start-up acquisition
News Cisco already offers a Web page caching appliance called the Cache Engine 500. The networking giant announced on Tuesday that it will integrate Actona's technology into its branch office product that currently combines a WAN (wide area network...
[June 30, 2004, 11:10]
Can cloud savings just evaporate?
Blog We've been at the SharePoint conference this week and I was thinking about Google in the session about using the FAST search engine in SharePoint, in terms of the tweaks administrators can do to refine results and wondering if the Google search...
[October 25, 2009, 17:44]
VMware moves into mobile virtualisation
News If you want to have an application run on a Java-specific appliance, you need to code it for Java," Sjostedt said. Business users were also a focus in VMware's announcement, which suggested MVP would let IT departments roll out a "corporate phone...
[November 10, 2008, 13:16]
Nortel moves beyond convergence
News All new Nortel enterprise products will fall into one or more of these blocks, starting with the 4134 secure router (for extending unified communications to branch offices) and the Nortel Application Accelerator (a data-centre appliance for...
[May 21, 2007, 12:34]
Neptune: Home hub of the future?
News Currently, Microsoft touts its Windows CE operating system as the solution for appliance devices. Microsoft is pushing to make the operating system also able to function as a home networking/home security hub.
[July 7, 1999, 9:11]
Software Jihad part 2
Blog Comment Most people on the Internet just web browse, play on MySpace or other social things, maybe play games.an "net appliance" works just fine for them. They are halfway there already, Windows Installer can be set through group policy to lockout...
[November 6, 2008, 8:50]
Cisco pushes WAN optimisation
News It's not a standalone appliance managed from a centralised operation like the network module," said Link. Kurian claimed that Cisco is not concerned about Microsoft's partnership with Citrix to co-develop a line of storage products that will...
[September 7, 2006, 14:05]
LaCie Ethernet Disk review
Reviews Beyond that, server management is conducted via an elegant Web-based front-end, although you can also control the appliance using Windows Remote Desktop. There’s only one small question-mark hanging over the use of Windows XP Embedded and that’s...
[November 24, 2003, 9:10]
Comdex: Digital home? Not quite...
News Another major appliance expected to make a strong showing is the Internet phone. When you leave the house and turn on the security system, your PC can turn off the heat and put the lights on a timer to make it look like someone's home," he said.
[November 16, 1998, 7:18]
Is the BlackBerry your next pager?
News The first major sign of that move came February 28, when RIM announced it would work with America Online to develop an Internet appliance due later this year. The 957 will also include "always-on" operation and security encryption, and it won't...
[May 4, 2000, 9:45]
Sun jumps to Linux 5.0
News Although the LX50 will ship in a pizza box-shaped 1U high rack case similar to the Cobalt Raq server appliance, it will be more powerful, said Tindall, with up to two 1.4GHz Pentium III processors, and support for up to 6GB of SDRAM.
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News What would it achieve, the Schmoozer wonders, other than giving AOL a non-Microsoft platform for its service -- which, incidentally, it already had in the form of Gateway's failed "Touch Pad" Web appliance.
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
Security in NFS Storage Networks
White Papers This technical report provides an overview of security features and functionality in NFS storage networks, including authentication methods, directory services, access controls, and deployment strategies.
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft's vision of the business PC
News Another set of ideas that Athens shares with the desktop telephone is that of an appliance that works at the moment you want it and doesn't consume resources when it doesn't. And of course, the 'single information appliance' approach has been...
[May 7, 2003, 14:27]
Equiinet NetPilot Plus review
Reviews On the plus side, you do get a good set of tools to enforce security at the WAN boundary. We looked at the NetPilot Plus, which is ostensibly designed to be shared by around 30 users. It’s worth noting, however, that there are no hard-and-fast...
[October 12, 2004, 10:35]
ISS Proventia M10 review
Reviews It does have lots of nice touches, such as the ability to use named dynamic address ranges when configuring the security tools, but it can be a little complex and frustratingly slow in places. On the plus side -- and it’s a big plus -- the...
[July 26, 2005, 9:55]
