All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Confio Software Performance Management has a New Best Practice Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement. It allows you to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact, aligning your efforts with customer service levels. Using Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it. Read this whitepaper and learn this new approach to performance management. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 09/11/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: I just need PHP 4.3.2 or higher! Let me start by asking if any of you have experience with Plesk? Plesk from SWsoft is a Web-based control panel for Windows and Linux servers that has been adopted by a number of hosting providers. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Network World Buyer's Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guides now. Backspin: Safety by disclosure Last week I was philosophizin' about security failures in complex systems — a topic triggered by a reader asking whether full, i.e. public, disclosure of security vulnerabilities was a better strategy than trying to keep the security holes secret. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Time for Mashapps? I wonder if there's too much emphasis and effort being placed on Web applications that exist totally "in" Web browsers? The reason I wonder this is recently I've found a number of Web-based user interfaces that are painfully slow. Hiding the Goods From The Man If, for some reason, you wanted to encrypt and hide the contents of your disk drive, what would you use? I just stumbled across an open source data encryption system that looks amazing! Rate This Idea! I'm testing out Cambrian House, a very interesting "crowdsourcing" system for developing ideas.

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Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here This newsletter is sponsored by Confio Software Performance Management has a New Best Practice Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement. It allows you to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact, aligning your efforts with customer service levels. Using Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it. Read this whitepaper and learn this new approach to performance management. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007