Monthly Archives: February 2011
AppRiver Filters Malicious Websites via SecureSurf
AppRiver's new SecureSurf Web-filtering application combines Domain Name System lookups with proxy routing to filter potentially malicious content from Internet traffic.Businesses can use SecureSurf...
Tablets, Smartphones, Video to Catapult Mobile Data Traffic: Cisco
Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times by 2015, driven primarily by smartphone and tablet use, as well as consumers' increasing...
LibreOffice Debuts, Beating OpenOffice.org by a Whisker
In the open-source movement, the forking of a project is often a contentious matter, and can lead to the demise or mothballing of the...
FireHost Security View Reveals Attacks on Customer Sites
Firehost added a Security View feature to its customer portal to give IT managers a detailed overview of the types of attacks hitting their...
Google Chrome Hits 10.7%, Apple Safari Tops 6%
Google's Chrome Web browser continued to grow through the first month of 2011, reaching 10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent...
Recovering from Failed System Offers VDI Insights
Ready, set...your IT department has to recover a PC that is trapped in a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). Do you send a tech...
Service-Now Lets Users Be More Social
Chat and live-feed activity streams are part of the Winter 2011 SAAS ITSM platform. IT service desk users can now more easily "tiger team"...
SpotCloud Explores the Cloud’s Utility Computing Future
Organizations with compute capacity to spare can sell it to buyers looking to the cloud to perform short-term compute tasks at lower costs.Read my...
Debian 6 Offers Updated Applications, Few Rough Spots
This latest release, which is also known by the Toy Story-inspired name “Squeeze,” will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components,...
Elevating the Status of Task Management
Tasktop Pro 1.8 stitches together application-lifecycle-management systems with the Web-browsing, document, calendar and e-mail activities that form the context of a specific task.Read my...