Fifteen years ago this month, the age of spam began. Like so many things, it started innocently enough, when a couple of immigration lawyers in Phoenix pitched their services to pretty much everyone who was on the Internet at the time, via the 6,000 newsgroups in existence then.More...

Well, I proved that I’m not particularly expert at picking the NCAA winners and losers in my March Madness post of last week. But hey, I did just about as well as President Obama (tournament that is…economic plan still TBD). More...

So how productive do you think the college basketball fans in your company were last week, thanks to that live streaming of the first round of the NCAA Tournament online? Not only that, but how did your network do with all of that bandwidth chewed by folks sitting at their desk and using the web to watch their favorite team? Although the presumption is that personal productivity declined last week, how about your network? Email seem a little slower? How about web services? And those of you working remotely or on business travel, did you have trouble accessing your company’s LAN? When employees were being productive, how did the network survive with all of that video going across your network? More...

Every morning’s paper and every local news show seem to be offering tips lately on dealing with this dismal economy. Ten ways to cut your grocery bill! Eight ways to save on your kids’ clothes! This is truly helpful information for these tough times, and in that spirit, I’d like to offer up five ways that you can reduce your company’s networking costs. More...

From the walled cities of medieval Europe to the forts of colonial America, our ancestors accomplished their objective: keep bad things out by limiting access to just one safe entry and exit point. Today we may not have to worry about roving hordes of vandals, or hungry bears or wolves, but for the electronic threats – the ones that can really damage a business network – it calls for a new breed of “fortress.” More...