What we're seeing is one-third of administrators' time is spent on server deployments, updates and patches," Humphreys said, so a few hours saved rapidly pays off. Sun Microsystems began selling new software yesterday to control hundreds of servers...
If a computer fails or needs new software patches, an administrator can fix it without leaving the office. Their computers, meanwhile, are sandwiched in six-foot-tall racks in central computing rooms that are managed by information technology...
Here they reveal how businesses are still leaving themselves woefully exposed to even the most inexperienced script kiddies.frixion, who now holds down a steady and respectable job in public sector IT, said that the sheer volume of patches that...
The first critical problem involves a vulnerability in the "Task Scheduler" stemming from an unchecked buffer, which is a program in memory that accepts data from external sources. Symantec strongly advises users to apply security patches for these...
Software companies already face an uphill battle providing good quality patches as fast as possible. Patches can be difficult to develop and often take between three and six months to perfect, Starnes said.
Torvalds accepted a number of patches on Tuesday so Linux will run on Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1 "Niagara"-based servers, according to David Miller, the lead Linux-on-Sparc programmer, who posted the news on his blog.
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