Even as modern economic activities rely heavily on sound IT strategies, many organizations fail to take advantage of the many opportunities that technology can provide. For instance, some types of can improve processes and profit margins. Clearly, there is a gap between the availabilit...

Citrix has released a public AMI ( Amazon Machine Image ) in the EC2 Cloud recently as part of the C3 Lab initiative with Amazon Web Services. XenApp Fundamentals is the new name for Access Essentials which is an ideal solution for SMB's looking for a simple way to administer and deliv...

Two emerging architectural styles are becoming popular: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and appliances. Both are becoming ever more relevant and popular in enterprise architectures. But SOA and appliances are very different architectural styles. SOA supports distributed architectur...

There's revolution (or evolution) occurring in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry. Recently both AMD and Intel introduced chips with multiple processing units in a single package. Instead of having one central processor, or brain, computers will now have multiple brains with...

If the Internet did one thing, it dramatically accelerated the flow of information. This, in turn, has led to additional pressures on today's white-collar workers - the so-called knowledge workers. A reply to a written letter may well take a week - more than adequate in the not-too-dis...

This month, we're going to perform a basic Asterisk installation and configure two extensions. For this, we'll need the Asterisk@Home distribution, a PC, and two VoIP phones. Asterisk@Home is a CD-based Linux and Asterisk installation system. Version 2.0 installs Centos 4.2, Asterisk, ...

There is a concept in computers called the 'Digital Rainbow,' an idea that describes how all digital projects eventually end at a pot of programming gold. Riding the Digital Rainbow is akin to riding the light waves of a silicon world, from everything in computers and GPS systems to Ap...