IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

miller60 writes "Saying 1,100 data centers is too many, the federal government has begun what looms as the largest IT consolidation in history.

borjonx writes "Is it safer to log out of an SSH session, and re-establish it later, or just keep the connection open?

miffo.swe writes "I'm trying to find the normal ratio of technicians/support tech per user or computer in your average IT-shop.

1sockchuck writes "Cloud computing is causing servers to get naked. HP today announced a 'skinless' server optimized for customers packing thousands of servers into cloud or HPC environments.

Ihmhi writes "China's mandatory "Green Dam Youth Escort" web filter software apparently has a series of severe flaws.

1sockchuck writes "Have you ever lost your patience with a server?

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bakamaki writes "I work for a small manufacturing company as a SysAdmin. My boss is a DBA. We are the only IT employees.

Barence writes "A security expert was stunned to discover a VPN device he'd bought on Ebay automatically connected to a local council's confidential servers.

An anonymous reader writes "In an email sent to the fedora-announce mailing list, it has been revealed that both Fedora and Red Hat servers have been compromised.

Digital certificates are one way we know to trust someone online.

Bandman writes "My business just purchased a couple dozen blades, and with our existing servers, this brings us to around 60 machines.

Yesterday’s news of an exploit in Flash that gives hackers the ability to redirect a web site’s visitors to malware-laden servers highlights one of the biggest dangers and problems around the inte

Chapter80 writes "At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping users to remove the ORDB query from thei