George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

9 Command-line
168 General
46 Implementation
27 Monitoring
299 News
99 Products
99 Security
5 Troubleshooting
16 Virtualization
  1. Breakthrough in SSD Technology

    November 2011, OCZ Technology announced the launch of a pair of new SSDs having the highest capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor. The new drives are in the Octane family and include the Octane 6Gbps and the Octane-S2 using a 3Gbps interface. OCZ claims it is the first SSD maker to hit 1TB in a 2.5-inch form factor drive. Both... Read More

  2. Brocade announced new innovations to its campus LAN switch family

    Brocade Expands the Effortless Network Strategy with New Campus LAN Innovation... Read More

  3. Buffer overflow vulnerability in Wireshark

    Wesley Neelen from Hoffmann Investigations discovered an MPEG file parser buffer overflow in Wireshark... Read More

  4. CA ARCserve r16.5 Expands Protection of Virtual Servers

    CA Technologies, a global leader in Data Backup and Recovery solutions has announced new enhancements to its CA ARCserve data protection solution that simplify backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtual server environments, while significantly improving performance, scalability and flexibility... Read More

  5. CAN-SPAM Act

    The following are seven important things to remember if your organization is required to comply with the US CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM Act sets the rules and establishes requirements for commercial email messages while; it sets out tough penalties for violations - non-compliance can cost your organization thousands of dollars! FTC has put together a handy video outlining seven simple... Read More

  6. CEE Storage Vendors Struggle with Major Economic Challenges in Q1 2014

    IDC's Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker delivers timely intelligence and a comprehensive database detailing changes and trends in the storage market. The tracker enables users to view data by volume, value, terabytes, country, year, quarter, vendor, product brand, model name, product category, topology, installation, protocol, OS, redundancy, storage class, and price band... Read More

  7. CIA to build a "private cloud" using Amazon Web Services

    Although, the cloud computing giant Amazon is normally associated with public cloud provision, it does offer services related to private clouds such as, virtual private clouds and services that extend an organization’s on-premise private clouds... Read More

  8. Call for papers about Botnets

    Botconf’13 – Call for papers... Read More

  9. Can my PC run Windows 8?

    Microsoft has released a tool that helps you check whether your computer supports Windows 8 or not. Let alone, the sales pitch behind this tool, I would just run it for compatibility reasons before taking any decisions to upgrade my system. It might save you a lot of trouble afterwards!... Read More

  10. Can we learn from SCADA security incidents?

    Industrial Control Systems look more and more like consumer PCs. They are used everywhere and involve a considerable amount of software... Read More