Articles By Paul Venezia

Cisco firewall hits small business sweet spot

There are two ways to look at the Cisco SA 520 network security appliance. On one hand, it offers a solid array of features: 65Mbps IPSec VPN throughput, 100Mbps overall throughput, integrated firewall

Published on: November 23rd, 2010 Paul Venezia @itbusinessca

New MacBook Air is worth the upgrade

After all the hype about the new MacBook Air releases last week, all the oohing and aahing over the engineering that slipped a significant amount of power and capability into such a tiny

Published on: November 1st, 2010 Paul Venezia @itbusinessca

Virtualization brings benefits to businesses of all sizes

If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational costs and get

Published on: July 27th, 2010 Paul Venezia @itbusinessca

Sun set – reminiscing about Sun Microsystems before Oracle’s acquisition

So I think I may have been in mourning last week. A little, at least. I'm going to miss Sun Microsystems.I wrote a big post full of doom and gloom for the Oracle

Published on: April 29th, 2009 Paul Venezia @itbusinessca

Cheap or free virtualization tools that work wonders for small firms

Free whitepaper with registration: Rethinking Virtualization Management Improves ROI As the virtualization wave washes over datacentre after datacentre, it almost seems that small businesses have been left high and dry. And with licenses

Published on: March 6th, 2009 Paul Venezia @itbusinessca