Servers & Data Center

It's a few years ago, and this pilot fish gets a job as the first PC support tech at this manufacturing plant. And because he's the the first true PC guy they've got, they're not sure where to put him.

Live, from London, it's IT Blogwatch: in which Yahoo launches it's shiny new live video streaming service (which promptly explodes). Not to mention the evolution of tech company logos...

Michael Arrington reports:

Given all the chaos this week surrounding Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo, it’s not surprising that a new Yahoo product launch wouldn’t have an abundance of exuberance attached to it ... Yahoo Live allows anyone with a webcam to stream live video of themselves to a dedicated site ...

Citrix hopes its Platinum edition of XenServer will yield gold for the company

LAN admin has just returned to his desk in the "geek area" when this desktop support pilot fish notices that a monitor on the wall is flashing red -- and that's a problem. ...

After months of development and testing, this pilot fish and his co-worker roll out their Web-based application to users -- and it turns out to be almost unusable.

A virtual testing world can save IT operations from making mistakes in production systems

Remember when Oracle was a database vendor and Sun Microsystems sold workstations? The days when vendors fit into tidy niches are long gone -- but the benefits they provide still depend on one thing.

Ready for 2008? Here are eight hot-button issues to watch out for in the coming year.

All the customer files for this company are stored on one server under a simple system, according to an IT pilot fish who supports it: one main folder and a lot of subfolders. But one day, one turns up empty.

Managing "tricky" virtual machines gets a bit easier with new tools

One day early and six months late, it's Tuesday's IT Blogwatch in which Microsoft relaxes and lets us all virtualize the Vista. Not to mention those crazy kids in marketing ...

Whenever a big corporate entity swallows up a small one, customers of the latter company worry - worry about the future of a beloved product or whether the level of personal service will deteriorate. MySQL users, especially the hundreds of thousands using the open-source database for free, are right to fret a little about the implications of Sun Microsystems $1 billion purchase.

This company has just completed its project to build a dedicated secure server room. And it's really something, complete with raised floor, fireproof door, electronic security key -- and one problem.

This government agency has built an online portal, and it's just what you'd expect: All official memos, news and collaborative projects are supposed to be stored there -- emphasis on supposed to be.

Young man sits down at the bar, despondent. Bartender offers him a drink. ...