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Comcast claims the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 ruling finding the cable giant violated FCC network neutrality principles by throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent. Comcast renews its contention that throttling network P2P traffic is acceptable under the FCC's reasonable network traffic management rules.
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Novell has launched a compliance platform to challenge its competitors in the identity management space, including Oracle and IBM. The platform pulls together a number of Novell products, including Novell Identity Manager and Novell Sentinel. With this enterprise-class solution, Novell goes head-to-head with IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others.
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's memo promises to renegotiate North American Free Trade Agreement to include enforceable labor and environmental clauses. Republican presidential nominee John McCain remains opposed to any NAFTA renegotiations, calling Barack Obama's stance protectionist. Since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Obama has supported the Peru Free Trade Agreement while opposing deals with Panama, Columbia and South Korea. McCain has supported all of the free trade agreements.
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VMware has had a rough 2008. First, a quarterly financial report wasn't up to expectations and VMware lost $8 billion on paper. Then, VMware lost its CEO, Diane Greene, in a corporate shakeup by its parent company, EMC, on July 8. Now a key R&D exec, Richard Sarwal, quits on short notice.
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Firewall administration involves constantly searching for ways to improve firewall management, increase firewall performance and remove network security threats. Keeping a firewall properly configured and operating at peak efficiency is a constant challenge for network administrators. With the right kind of firewall management technology, Knowledge Center contributor Dr. Avishai Wool explains how you can rid your firewall of clutter and improve its security and performance.
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Dell invested heavily to expand its nonenterprise market share in Europe and in various IT sectors and may have overextended itself in trying to set up retail outlets and woo consumers over to its laptops, desktops and peripherals. Dell revealed in its quarterly report that its fiscal second-quarter profit margins fell a full 17 percent from a year ago.
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In an enterprise, privacy is good—in moderation. But new hyperprivacy features need IT's control.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, IBM chief architect for hardware systems for the Power Series, Ed Seminaro and senior technical staff member Mike Ellsworth, explain what really sets IBM Power Series system apart from rival architectures.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Continuity CEO Gil Hecht explains why an inability to test disaster recovery plans usually leads to cataclysmic failure.
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Today’s CIOs have the opportunity to be the enablers of innovative mobile computing. But, faced with the challenges of the diverse world of wireless mobile devices, CIOs are more commonly viewed as stifling innovation. In this article, Knowledge Center contributor David Goldschlag reviews their top mobility blunders and smart tips to avoid them, along with ways to roll out an effective enterprise mobility strategy.
Opinion
Just about the most serious breach of security possible at an OS vendor happened to this company. Red Hat is releasing updated OpenSSH packages to address the compromise of its internal systems.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the CTO of Sepaton, Miklos Sandorfi, explained why IT organizations need to take a more strategic approach to implementing data deduplication.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, David Lear, Dell director of worldwide regulatory compliance and environmental affairs, talks about the impact green computing is going to have on setting IT budget priorities over the next couple of years.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Platform Computing CEO Songnian Zhou explains how the next generation of high-performance computing is going to evolve in an age of virtualization and multicore processors.
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Intel's Core i7 chip, based on Nehalem, will conserve more power and deliver faster images.
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