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Desktop virtualization
By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current ...
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Mobile virtualization
Mike Seashols, Chairman of VirtualLogix, talks about implementing virtualization technologies onto mobile platforms. He says there are many issues that mobile providers have to ...
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Nurturing sales leads
Phil Fernandez, President and CEO of Marketo, says that many companies today are not managing sales leads effectively. He suggests ways to utilize the ...
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Managing Internet growth
The Internet is growing by 1 zettabyte a year, fueled by images, videos, gaming, and peer to peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of ...
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Online ad strategies
There are more than 300 ad networks that focus on monetizing Web sites, so having a strategy is key. Ren Chin, marketing vice president ...
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What is semantic search?
Semantic search uses the science of meaning in languageinstead of just searching keywords, it checks the context of the words to return more relevant ...
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Next generation of business intelligence
Data warehouses collect gigabytes of data everyday but the information is not always meaningful. Why? Angela Shen-Hsieh, President and CEO of Visual I/O, says ...
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SIP trunking 101
Voice, instant messaging, and video no longer have to be islands of collaboration. Kenneth Kuenzel, founder and CTO of Covergence, shows how SIP trunking ...
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Wireless inside the enterprise
With the rise of PDAs, Blackberries and mobile phones, the demand for wireless service inside large buildings is increasing every day. Leila Nouri, director ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and cost savings
Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer at Intel, shows how vPro saves time and money by diagnosing PC problems remotely. The content for this ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and manageability
Limited technical support hours and powered down PCs can make it difficult to manage large numbers of PCs. Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer ...
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Application streaming
Updating applications can be time-consuming for both users and administrators. Christian Black, an IT systems engineer at Intel, explains why application streaming is a ...
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OS streaming
Christian Black, an IT systems engineer for Intel, spells out the many benefits of hard-drive virtualization, or operating system streaming, including faster boot times ...
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Enterprise 2.0
Vince Casarez, vice president of product management at Oracle, explains how Web 2.0 technologies, such as tags, wikis, and mash-ups, can be applied within ...
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Secure file transfers
John Thielens, vice president of technology at Tumbleweed, talks about the need for managed file transfers that are not only secure, but auditable and ...
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What is LEED?
"Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the ...
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Unified communications
With desktops, laptops, PDAs and mobile phones, our communication systems have become fragmented. David Leach, senior public consultant for Siemens Enterprise Networks, explains how ...
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Virtual business
Brent Arslaner, VP of marketing at Unisfair, explains how virtual environments can increase productivity in marketing, sales and human resources departments within a company.
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Automating virtualization
Richard Whitehead, the director of product marketing at Novell, explains how automation can bridge the gap between physical and virtual machines.
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Greening the data center
John O'Brien, CTO of Dataupia, explains how carbon footprints are calculated in the data center and discusses ways to tame these power-hungry machines.
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What is SOA?
Service oriented architecture may be over-hyped, but it does offer lower-cost and easier integration.
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What is a mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind says mashups are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web and that by 2007, there will be 10 new mashups per day.
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Desktop virtualization
By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current infrastructures and says that organizations deploying new systems need to think about four things--management, offline use, cost, and the user experience.
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Users-to-tech support ratio
How many employees should one tech support staff person oversee? CNET's Justine Nguyen explains the golden ratio of users to tech support staff, and what factors contribute to it.
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What is virtualization?
Data centers are commonly filled with large numbers of servers that require a tremendous amount of time and money to maintain. Dan Chu of VMware shows how virtualization can optimize fewer servers to run at higher performance levels.
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Energy-efficient transistors
Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.
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First steps to SOA
What does it really mean to introduce SOA into an organization? Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSource, explains how an enterprise service bus allows different applications to communicate with each other.
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Desktop vs. workstation: Introduction
Sponsored: Dave Buckley, product line manager of workstations at HP, explains the differences between desktops and workstations, and how these differences influence purchasing decisions. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by HP.
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A load of C.R.A.P.
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests that CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM - Digital Rights Management. Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP.
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SEO 101
How do you get your Web pages to rank high on search results? CNET's Laura Lippay offers some guidelines for Search Engine Optimization, including how to structure your site, where to position content on your page, and how to increase traffic.
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The next Sober virus attack
CNET Senior Editor Robert Vamosi explains how and when the Sober virus is expected to strike again and what you can do to protect yourself against this mass-mailing worm.
I m Robert Vamosi, senior editor, CNET.com. Today I m going to be talking about the next sober virus attack. There have been more than 20 variants of the sober virus and each one of them uses what I call a bootstrapping effect. That is, the virus writer initially sends out the first wave of viruses that infect a small pool of PC s on the Internet. At a predetermined date, those PC s then call out to servers for additional instructions. The additional instructions often are a second wave of attacks so these initially infected computers will then infect even more computers out on the Internet.
It is the second wave of attacks that s we re concerned about because we think it will happen on January 5, 2006. How do we know that? Within the virus code, the virus writer often leaves instructions for the virus, what day and what servers to contact. So we have a date and we have ISP s out on the Internet. In the past, these were coded in plain text so that we could read them. Then they started encrypting them but the anti-virus companies figured out how to crack that code. With the latest sober variant, they figured out a way to randomize these ISP s so a given date might match up to different ISP s.
So how do we know which day the next sober virus will attack? We think it is going to be January 5, 2006 because of some social engineering. Previous versions of the sober virus have coincided with important dates in Nazi history. Also the virus has spread Nazi propaganda on the Internet. January 5th happens to be the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Nazi party in Germany.
So what can you do to keep your desktop PC s from being involved in the next sober virus attack? First, check your PCs and make sure that they re not already infected with the sober virus. If they are, clean them with an anti-virus program now. Second of all, set a firewall rule to block access to the ISP s that are associated with the attack on January 5, 2006. To find out those ISP addresses, read my Security Watch column at security.cnet.com.