The Register
Nov 15, 2011
What does the modern chief information security officer (Ciso) look like? The role used to be little more than acting as a glorified sysadmin but things have changed.
CISO
The Register
Nov 17, 2011
In the heart of London, researchers are splitting apart the building blocks of life and working towards a cure for cancer. The Biomedical Research Centre, run by King’s College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, has a genomic sequencing unit that genotypes tissue from patients with cancer and other diseases.
cancer, cancer research, genomics, king's college hospital
The Register
Nov 29, 2011
Implementing virtual desktops across a whole enterprise is rarely as easy as it sounds in vendor white papers. Rich Raether, IT manager, and Dan Putnam, published systems architect at large US law firm Quarles & Brady faced a unique set of challenges when they decided to roll out virtual desktops as a means of improving the firm's business continuity stance.
virtual desktop, desktop virtualisation
Financial Post
Oct 11, 2011
Vancouver's technology startup scene needs what investors refer to as a "big exit"; a ground-shaking initial public offering that leaves the founders super rich, and gives the rest of the startup community hope.
Technology, Startup, Boris Mann, Boris Wertz
Financial Post
Oct 11, 2011
In Vancouver, everyone is waiting for the big earthquake.
“It could happen at any time,” says Boris Mann, co-founder of Bootup Labs, a technology incubator and seed fund. But the quake he is referring to is economic, not seismological.
google, , Entrepreneur, Startup, science and technology, bootup labs
The Register
Aug 19, 2011
Does anyone really care what “five nines” means anymore? For the record, it means 99.999 per cent availability, which means your business managers can founder in digital limbo for just over an eighth of a second each day.
service assurance, system management
The Register
Aug 22, 2011
When applications go wrong, they can either stop working or slow to a crawl. The problem for IT managers is keeping track of when this happens and why, and preferably preventing it altogether. How can they do this?
applications, monitoring, performance management
The Register
Sep 26, 2011
Virtualisation can be a powerful tool for your IT department, making your infrastructure far more efficient. But without proper planning it is easy to trip yourself up by not scaling the system properly.
virtualisation, desktop virtualisation
The Register
Aug 23, 2011
How do the different types of intrusion prevention system (IPS) work?
Inline systems sit on the network like layer-two bridges, passing traffic along as they receive it. Host-based systems sit on the server, watching the traffic that it sends and receives.
network management, network intrusion
The Register
Aug 23, 2011
It is surprising that thieves don’t target data centres more often. All that expensive kit and copper is worth a pretty penny, not to mention all the data that’s on it.
Several BT exchanges have been hit, along with facilities owned by C&W. But of course, thieves don’t always need to get in to wreak havoc: data centres can be hacked.
data centre
