The heavy demands of one important task can be met by allocating resources that had been assigned to another, lower-priority job. In the case of IBM Unix servers or other products that can run several operating systems simultaneously in different...
Sun believes it has the answer to the problem: Customers should buy collections of hardware and software already assembled and suited to the task at hand, and they should run multiple tasks on those systems to ensure computing capacity isn't going...
Peter Cochrane examines the causes and offers a solution to flaky tech. For example, a network hub failure may see the loss of an internet connection, printer and scanner. This mechanism also applies to our automobiles, computers and other IT...
Walking around with a mobile phone on a belt clip and a laptop in hand has always made me mindful of the security risks and the likely penalty of a loss or theft. Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey.
WMI is Microsoft's implementation of the common information model published by industry consortium Desktop Management Task Force, and is the gateway for management tools to find out about a PC's status and potentially change it.
The 'green' debate - focus on environmental issues - and a shift towards a mobile workforce are two notable trends. With the growth of the mobile workplace has come the complexity of managing a mobile workforce from a variety of often changing...