The Linux Beacon--Real Time Forensics from Log Data? ArcSight Says It's Got It
With the onslaught of identity theft and the increase in instances of corporate data loss these days, forensics is becoming a word more IT administrators are becoming familiar with. In the world of log...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--IBM Offers HPC Bundles for SUSE Linux
While Linux has certainly taken off in the high-performance supercomputing labs of academic institutions, commercial enterprises, and government facilities around the world, many of the supercomputers...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Sabre and Travelocity Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The word standard gets tossed around the IT industry a lot, particularly since the early 1980s when open standards Unix was all the rage long before open source software was even something than anyone...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Overseas and Notebook Sales Offset Printer Declines for HP...
While the U.S. dollar may be strengthening a bit in recent weeks, overseas currencies where IT sales are growing very rapidly were and continue to be a lot stronger and business is a lot more brisk,...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--SMBs Are Sensibly More Concerned with Biz than Tech
This bit of news will come as no surprise to any IT Jungle readers who have run their own businesses or who work for small companies where money is a lot tighter than at larger enterprises, which...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Two More Xeon-Based Galaxy Servers from Sun
Server maker and X64 wannabee Sun Microsystems used the occasion of Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco last week as the launching pad for two more Xeon-based 'Galaxy' servers. The new machines do...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Mad Dog 21/21: Newtonian Economics
Isaac Newton's contributions to science and mathematics were monumental. They elevated English technology to a state of great prominence and helped usher in the Age of Enlightenment. More than three...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Microsoft Ponies Up Another $100 Million for Novell Linux
Microsoft's Windows Server customers have not yet burned through all of the $240 million in certificates that allow them to get Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system and a year's worth...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Intel Keeps Both Arms Swinging with Xeons, Jabs with Itanium
Since waking up after being asleep for enough years to let Advanced Micro Devices have the driver's seat in the X64 chip market, in terms of design elegance, the top brass at Intel have been espousing...
View ArticleThe Linux Beacon--Why Blade Servers Still Don't Cut It, and How They Might
Sometimes, a good idea just doesn't take off. OK, this is information technology, not philosophy, so let me rephrase that more accurately. Sometimes, ideas and habits that were once laudable have an...
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