There is nary a storage provider that is not marketing utility pricing models for its storage and there are few that have not signed up to the standardisation efforts to enable further integration and virtual access.
From a business perspective, web services is about 'software as a service', whereby software becomes a utility, bought, sold and delivered in a similar manner to electricity or telecommunications. To do this, vendors have written pieces of code...
The revised strategy is to port all the NetWare functionality onto Linux, as Linux is clearly not proprietary by any definition of the term, and, like NetWare, is highly stable. The announcement of a port to Linux makes clear that Novell intends to...
To support the utility vision, this should include support for charging mechanisms, whether services are internally or externally provided - how interesting it would be to see exactly how much a specific service costs, when all of its components...
Like would-be burglars knocking on doors looking for a likely target, internet intruders sometimes scan random computers to see if a particular network port is available, as a precursor to attack. TCP Port 445 is used by SMB, which Windows uses to...
But they seemed to be continually probing, looking for a way in, trying to find an open port or some means of accessing my hard drive, network, connectivity, email, who knows? Using my utility programs I discovered that someone was pinging my...