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Security and wireless networking
Tech Guide The security of wireless networks is often overlooked, particularly in smaller businesses and in the home. Here's a guide to the issues, and some best-practice suggestions.
How will the iPhone impact IT and business users?
Tech Guide The arrival of the iPhone is a watershed moment in mobile computing, not just for consumers but for businesses as well.
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops
Tech Guide If you want total control over users' desktops, putting their PCs on blades in the datacentre is one increasingly popular solution.
iPhone insecurity
Tech Guide Apple hasn't always treated security researchers with respect. Maybe that will change with the release of the iPhone and Leopard OS.
A guide to desktop management
Tech Guide Desktop (and notebook) PCs present a huge headache for IT managers: looking after hardware and software inventory, configuration, security, patching and software licences, for example, can make serious inroads into the IT budget. We examine the technologies and tools that can make the job easier.
Blades and business
Tech Guide How do you juggle the competing demands for more computing power and data storage capacity with the need to keep power costs to a minimum? Blade servers may be the answer.
A guide to server efficiency
Tech Guide The cost of powering and cooling server hardware is fast becoming a critical issue for IT managers, while the demand for ever more computing muscle in the datacentre continues to grow. What can be done? We examine some of the options.
Inside Intel's Santa Rosa platform
Tech Guide Improvements to the processor, chipset and wireless components of Intel's latest mobile platform should result in a new generation of faster notebooks with longer battery life. Business systems will also get Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) for the first time, while Turbo Memory should reduce the frequency of hard disk accesses, saving power and boosting performance.
Data retention strategies for SMEs
Tech Guide Backup and archiving may not head the IT agendas of many small businesses, but for reasons of business continuity and regulatory compliance, the prudent SME will be formulating a data retention strategy. We examine the options.
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond
Tech Guide Want to know Intel and AMD's release plans for this year and next? We have the roadmap details.
Why 802.11n is a hard act to swallow
Tech Guide Current wireless data transmission techniques are coming up against fundamental physical limits. We explain why, and show how the upcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard fits into the overall picture.
Benchmarks: the unofficial eight-core Mac Pro
Tech Guide Unless you normally work on high-end workstations, perform massively multitasking workloads or just want the bragging rights, eight cores is definitely overkill -- at least for now.
A half-century of hard drives
Tech Guide The hard disk drive, invented by IBM 50 years ago, underpins modern computing and will continue to do so for a while yet. But how did today's data storage technology evolve, and what does the future hold?
Inside a notebook battery pack
Tech Guide Ever wondered what exactly is inside your notebook's battery pack? We take the cover off a typical example, and explain how it can, occasionally, burst into flames.
Inside Intel's Core architecture
Tech Guide Intel's Core architecture now underlies mobile, desktop and server chips, and is a major departure from the Pentium 4's NetBurst design.
