Sure, your 120 year old Grandpa might utter incoherent nonsense 90% of the time, but pay attention when that ten-percent of conversation actually makes sense. It seems that many values of the past have gotten lost in translation, or more likely, in laziness. Do the job right the first time and other work ethic idioms [...]

There has been a ridiculous amount of buzz around tech world, as CES officially begins tomorrow, and one of the most exciting technologies that will be there is an upgrade Wi-fi standard. I’m sure all of you already know (or should already know) that Wi-fi speeds are measured in Gigabits per second, but currently most [...]

If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. My high school football coach used to consistently remind us that by failing to improve, we were actually getting worse. In the land of competition, there is no treading water. As soon as you think you no longer need to improve, your competition catches up, or worse, [...]

At HP Discover 2011 in Austria, the two companies unveiled their new joint offerings, CloudSystem and Data Center Network Connect.

The Fujitsu K computer has been named the most powerful computer ever created.

Everybody in the tech and business sectors can see the growing importance of cloud computing, and almost everyone is starting to move in that direction. Here are a few companies out there offering enterprise-level cloud solutions and descriptions of what they are actually offering.

Way back when before Microsoft’s Active Directory overtook the networking world, one of the major networking products out there that many schools (high schools / universities) and businesses used was called “Novell NetWare.” This networking software first emerged during the times of Windows 3.1 and DOS, and even when coaxial networking was around prior to [...]

If Scapy is the most powerful tool for network admins, iptables is the most handy. This tutorial, or eulogy rather, serves to help the reader transcend the disturbing complexity of such a simple idea: routing IP traffic.

“One day we will look at the summer of 2011 as the time when the public key infrastructure (PKI) collapsed,” Mike Fratto writes. The Dutch Certificate Authority (CA), DigiNotar, issued at least 531 false certificates for domains from Google to Facebook. The response has been immediate and intense: revoking all DigiNotar signatures.

DDoS attacks and poisoning techniques are posing major issues for IT departments today, and increasingly so. Additionally, the need for greater scale and speed is pushing IT towards resourcefulness. Revisiting the question of where DNS providing should come from may discover solutions for some of these issues.