Power-Line Networking has grown by leaps and bounds recently and currently available power-line adapters in the market provide a bandwidth of up to 500 Mbps. The concept of transmitting data using the standard power cables at home/office has been picking steam over the years... »

There are two major applications that require 10GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) speeds – Backbone network connectivity, mainly from the core switch to the distribution switches and the connectivity between distribution switches to the edge switches, as well. The second application is a virtualized data... »

We employ a number of criterion (like number of sockets, processing power, memory capacity, etc.) to select the most appropriate servers for our data centers. But, does energy efficiency figure among those? Should it? Of course it should. In most cases, electricity costs incurred by running... »

This is a guest post by Brad Hale, Product Marketing Principal, SolarWinds. Monitoring your network performance remains a significant factor for organizations, as IT departments grapple with increasing network problems. Further, you also need to keep a tab on the performance of the hardware... »

This is a guest post by Rachel Greenberg. When using a service like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), customers have access to lots of great phoning features at no extra cost. However, with so many features to keep track of, there might be a... »

The Document Foundation has released the latest version of Libre Office – 4.0.  I guess people are already aware of Libre Office – The free, open source office productivity suit consisting of Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math & Base. Libre Office can be downloaded... »

Photo: Derrick Coetzee. Published under this creative commons license. Instead of buying a separate rack, servers, storage appliances, networking switches, etc and integrating the hardware/firmware to work with each other, what if you are able to buy a rack that comes pre-installed with all... »

M2M or Machine to Machine communications is the next big thing after the Internet. Yes, M2M going to be a part of ‘Internet for things’ just like how we have ‘Internet for people’. The concept of machines talking to each other and making the... »

You might be aware that Ubuntu is coming out with an OS for smart phones. A short Youtube video introducing their OS is embedded above. What’s different with Ubuntu Phone OS though, is the direction in which they are steering the concept of a... »

It is not uncommon to see enterprise companies host their applications/data on multiple data centers, private & public clouds. Geolocation is a technology that helps companies determine accurate location of clients/devices accessing their applications/data. This is nothing new, as content delivery networks have been... »

Let us look at the advantages of Precision air conditioners over comfort/standard air conditioners for data centers and server rooms. Of course, people use precision air conditioners (or something better) by default in data centers, these days. But, smaller facilities like server rooms and... »

This is a guest post by Jena Branch of Buycox.com Wireless networks have become extremely common today, and are now available in offices and homes alike. Though setting up an Internet connection is really simple, the connection struts and re-buffers when you try Multimedia... »