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Google Steps Up Spectrum Serenade
Just as Apple shook up the phone industry with its advanced iPhone, Google hopes to do the same with the networks that manage mobile devices.

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Server virtualization in its many forms is all the rage. But is it right for your organization? Will it save you money? Will it make you money? Find out! In this Webcast, we'll look at the qualitative side of quantifying virtualization.

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Homebrew NMS: Build One Database to Rule Them All
Once you've built a basic NMS, start looking around: "Network management" covers a lot of ground, so why not craft a tool to rein in some of that complexity?

Dreamhost Driven by Linux-Enhanced Economics

Choosing Linux has given a Web hosting provider key advantages over the past decade.

Join Linux to Active Directory with Winbind

From time synchronization to wrestling with PAM, there are a lot of ins and outs to join your Linux systems with Active Directory. Here's how to manage it.

Hire a Babysitter for Your Windows Apps

Once you've got your Windows apps humming along, it's time to keep an eye on them. Should you hire MOM or should you look elsewhere?

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Server Snapshots: HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Blade Server
Blades are bulking up, and HP is buying into the trend with the 4P quad-core Xeon 7300 based BL680c. Will it keep pace with changing enterprise computing needs?

Got Macs? Be Sure to Maximize Security

As the presence of Macs in the enterprise slowly increases, what steps should be taken to protect your servers?

A Virtual Conversation

XenSource's Simon Crosby discusses the three "Vs": virtualization, VMware and Viridian.

VMware, Microsoft Ready for Battle

VMware announced the second iteration of VMware Server, while Microsoft unveiled key virtual details about Windows Server 2008.

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Deploying 802.11n? Consider Existing Infrastructure
802.11n's improved range and speed will be welcome improvements, but make sure you're taking your existing infrastructure into account: Bottlenecks and signal bleed are some of the pain you might take with the gain.

Squeeze Your Gigabit NIC for Top Performance

Gigabit network cards are becoming more and more common, but getting maximum speed depends on a the right mix of hardware, software, and finesse. Here's how to squeeze top performance out of your gigabit gear using Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.

LinuxBIOS Brings Clones One Step Closer to Freedom

You might not think about your computer's BIOS much, but one project has: LinuxBIOS rethinks an old and hoary PC convention with an approach devoted to modern operating systems.

Riverbed & Juniper Push WAN Acceleration Ahead

Acceleration players eye ways to expand the range of traffic their offerings cover.

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Windows Security: Build a VPN Server
Secure connections for your remote users are easy enough to provide with a Microsoft Windows 2003 VPN server.

Will Microsoft Eat Telecommunications?
Some see stark choices for IT managers in the wake of Redmond's recent UC blitz. How accurate is that vision?

Berners-Lee: Free The Mobile Internet
The W3C may be pushing open standards, but who's listening?

New Tools Harden Microsoft Office
A new guide and policy tool will point organizations to the most security-critical Office settings and help configure policy to lock them down.

MikroTik's The Dude
Network management tools typically cost several hundred dollars, but The Dude is free. While the oddly named utility doesn't offer the same level of polish, it's certainly serviceable, provided you spend time figuring out its interface.

Windows Server 2008, IIS 7 Studies in Modularity
Security, modularity and incremental improvements mark Microsoft's release candidates.

IM Watch: IM Extends Its Social Reach
Sigaba gives its Secure Messaging suite a collection of new security features, Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers integration with properties like flickr and Yahoo! Maps, Meebo unleashes an API, T-Mobile bucks traditional productivity marketing and more.

Accelerating the File System
Meet a modular storage server where even file system operations are encoded in silicon.

Networking 101: Understanding (and Using) ICMP
ICMP is "that thing ping uses," but it's a lot more, too. There's plenty to take in before we move further up the layer stack.

Lowering the VoIP Entry Barrier for SMBs
Up-front costs of VoIP migration are high—even with a hosted solution. Apptix has a remedy.

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