Archives : April 2009

Spam bucking recession and increasing carbon footprint

published on 2009/04/30 by Anthony Plewes

One aspect of enterprise IT that clearly isn't in decline as a result of the recession is spam. Researchers at Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in its TRACElabs facility with malware responsible for the nine largest spam botnets tracked to date and found infected PCs can generate up to 600,000 spam messages per day. Rustock and Xarvester are the most efficient of the nine bots analysed and each is capable of sending up to 25,000 messages per hour, or 4.2 million per week.Such volumes certainly go a long way towards making sense of a recent Microsoft security report which claims that......

UAE leads FTTH deployments in the Gulf

published on 2009/04/29 by Stewart Baines

Deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is accelerating in the Middle East but there is still a vast amount to do for a significant proportion of the population to be served by fiber connectivity. Although UAE-based Etisalat, one of the first operators to begin FTTH deployment in the region, has announced that it is nearing completion of its Abu Dhabi FTTH network - which will cover the entire city - penetration across the region will remain low. Figures from the FTTH Council Europe's Market Panorama highlight the gulf in homes passed and the population as a whole. At the end of......

UAE leads FTTH deployments in the Gulf

UAE leads FTTH deployments in the Gulf

published on 2009/04/29 by Stewart Baines

Deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is accelerating in the Middle East but there is still a vast amount to do for a significant proportion of the population to be served by fiber connectivity. Although UAE-based Etisalat, one of the first operators to begin FTTH deployment in the region, has announced that it is nearing completion of its Abu Dhabi FTTH network - which will cover the entire city - penetration across the region will remain low. Figures from the FTTH Council Europe's Market Panorama highlight the gulf in homes passed and the population as a whole. At the end of......

UAE leads FTTH deployments in the Gulf

7 reasons why (some) managers hate Social Media

published on 2009/04/28 by Yann Gourvennec

This is an unabridged version of an article originally published at Bnet.co.uk In our previous article about social media, we have described the 8 reasons why managers love social media and we have also debunked a few commonplace myths. In this new instalment we'll look at the flip side of corporate social media perception, the negative one, and we will also discuss the rationale behind each of these arguments. #1. All these online conversations could be dangerous, we'll be losing control": it's true that social media is about employees, clients, partners and members of all kinds of eco systems talking to......

7 reasons why (some) managers hate Social Media

Turn that PC off! You have been warned

published on 2009/04/27 by Stewart Baines

Although powering down PCs has regularly been mentioned by the green lobby over the last few months, analyst firm Gartner has now come up with some substantive figures about how much energy enterprises can save. Gartner reckons that around 31% of worldwide ICT energy usage can be attributed to PCs and associated peripherals and advocates a seven-point plan to manage their energy usage more effectively. Stephen Kleynhans, research vice president at the firm, says enterprises can no longer view environmental performance of their PC fleets as optional and advocates establishing a plan now to reap the advantages. It's not just......