Network World on Operating Systems

Cisco's ASR 9000: All hat, no cattle?

Jim Duffy — 2008-11-13T00:00:00Z

As Cisco remains tight-lipped on details of its new Carrier Ethernet router, competitors are highlighting what they perceive to be the product's deficiencies.

Microsoft patch closes 7-year-old OS hole, expert says

John Fontana — 2008-11-12T00:00:00Z

A former Microsoft employee who's now CTO for a patch management firm says an update issued by Microsoft on Tuesday closes a vulnerability that has been exploited for almost seven years and that he first identified while working for the company.

Novell lays out Red Hat attack plan

John Fontana — 2008-11-11T00:00:00Z

Novell Tuesday took aim at rival and Linux market leader Red Hat with a migration service designed to help move Linux users onto Novell's Suse enterprise servers.

VMware road map emphasizes manageability

Jon Brodkin — 2008-09-15T00:00:00Z

At VMworld, VMware is announcing a product road map for 2009 that moves beyond the virtualization of individual servers to a holistic management approach encompassing all the virtualized servers and storage in a data center.

Merrill Lynch building toward stateless data center

John Fontana — 2008-08-05T00:00:00Z

Financial giant Merrill Lynch is building a stateless data center where it can dynamically combine capacity with operating system and application components to meet its computing needs in real time.

Kace tackles remote OS deployments

Ann Bednarz — 2008-07-29T00:00:00Z

It's not always easy to keep remote sites in the IT fold. To lend a hand, systems management vendor Kace this week is unveiling a virtual appliance designed to make it simpler and less costly for IT administrators to remotely provision operating systems, without bringing the network to its knees.

Getting mobile right

2008-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mobile technology is delivering real business benefits, but the growing complexity and the manner in which the technology is acquired and managed can stretch IT thin.

Building with FreeBSD 7 and a rad headset

Mark Gibbs — 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This week Gibbs adds another highly recommended book to the IT library and reviews a Bluetooth cell phone headset that is outstanding.

Cisco IOS vs. Juniper JUNOS: The technical differences

Jim Duffy — 2008-04-17T00:00:00Z

A look at the architectural differences between Cisco's IOS and Juniper Networks' JUNOS

Linux showing signs of solid growth: IDC study

John Fontana — 2008-04-08T00:00:00Z

Austin, Texas – Workloads running on Linux servers are shifting to become more business oriented, including databases and line-of-business applications, and the operating system appears headed for measurable growth over the next three years, according to a white paper released Tuesday by IDC.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.