From the monthly archives: February 2009

Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero

By On February 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Citrix on Monday is making its core virtualization platform free, and announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft to promote interoperability between Citrix’s XenServer hypervisor and Microsoft’s Hyper-V software.

The XenServer enterprise edition, which previously cost $3,000 per server, will now be given away free and embedded in Citrix’s XenApp application delivery software, according [...]

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IBM and Juniper join in cloud strategy

By On February 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

IBM and Juniper provided a preview at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud.

Using cloud management software IBM Tivoli  and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing a hybrid cloud infrastructure. The console displayed virtual machines like small boxes with [...]

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Samsung put projector into a cell phone

By On February 23, 2009 · 1 Comment

Samsung has partenered with Texas Instrumentes to create a mobile phone with an embedded projector.

On display at Mobile World Congress it has DLP Pico chipset technology from Texas Instruments, which was first announced a year ago, allowing the phone to project an image up to 50in on almost any surface. The phone also has [...]

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Nortel wants to unload application-delivery unit to Radware

By On February 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Nortel wants to sell off its application-delivery gear to Radware, but to keep on selling it under an OEM agreement.

While Nortel says it would like to proceed with the deal, it has also filed papers in U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy courts that would allow others to bid on the layer 4 to 7 [...]

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GNS3: How to create Frame-Relay Hub and Spoke lab

By On February 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

When I first came in touch with GNS3 I had not idea how to work with it. Not because it is so complicate to operate, but because I didn’t saw any software like this one. GNS3 and Dynamips make a very good job together, allowing users to emulate a lot of network scenarios with different [...]

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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

By On February 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), Cisco Catalyst 6500 Wireless Services Modules (WiSMs), and Cisco Catalyst 3750 Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers. This security advisory outlines details of the following vulnerabilities:

* Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (total of three)
* Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

These vulnerabilities are independent of each other.

Cisco [...]

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How to protect your network and users with not additional costs

By On February 21, 2009 · 2 Comments

One of the biggest problems in today’s network security is users surfing on the Internet. I’m not against offering Internet access at work place or schools, for example, but I believe that some measures should be taken by the network administrators to limit the users from being able to access (intentionally or not) the webpages [...]

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Conficker worm gets an evil twin

By On February 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that could signal a major shift in the way the worm operates.

The new variant, dubbed Conficker B++, was spotted three days ago by SRI International researchers, who published details of the new code [...]

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Cisco: TCP and UDP small servers

By On February 20, 2009 · 1 Comment

Do you like Linux with all this services that you can enable on the fly when you want to test something? I know that I really like Linux boxes. But what about Cisco? Well Cisco supports also some services to be enabled for testing purposes. This are called “TCP and UDP small servers”.

Maybe I [...]

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Cisco Unified Messaging

By On February 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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