Stories about: Network Integrity

Following a review of its infrastructure, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) is replacing a mix of point solutions with two unified threat management network security appliances.

Goldenfields Water County Council has selected Munsys from Open Spatial Australia to better manage its water assets.

Security vendor Aladdin Knowledge Systems has added an element to its eSafe secure web gateway that it claims can block the operation of 'anonymous' proxies.

Extending VPN access to partners, contractors and consultants has quickly become part and parcel of modern business. Indeed, the extranet is an integral New Data Center concept. Not every company extends VPN access as safely as it might, however. The problem is that many enterprises provide the technology but fail to spell out adequately what network visitors can and cannot do. They underestimate the need for a VPN-use agreement.

Internode's push to increase broadband upload speeds by more than double has finally been registered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). And in the process it becomes the first ISP offering upload speeds at 2.5Mbps.

Iron Mountain's recently announced acquisition of LiveVault put the spotlight on what analysts say is a growing market for managed backup and recovery services.

In 1971 Ray Tomlinson picked the @ symbol, his work was piggybacked onto FTP, and the rest is e-mail history.

Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) claim spam is eating up to $500,000 a year in revenue, clogging networks and annoying customers.

I have two problems that I hope you can help with. The first is the more serious of the two: I have a database that needs to be online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. How do I back it up? I've tried setting backups to both disk and tape during off-peak hours, but it still slows the database to a crawl. As you've probably guessed, this is a Web application, so our users are from all over the world and our peak usage is starting to flatten. Soon there won't be any off-peak times. One way or another I need to back this thing up. Help!

Network managers who want to vault data to a remote location over IP networks will be interested in software that Computer Network Technology (CNT) introduced last week.