P. J. Connolly

The Feds are prepared for the next-generation Internet Protocol. What about the private sector? Read my full review at eweek.com.

Systems management is exploring a new frontier-your pocket. Although the idea of using mobile devices for remote management isn’t new, the choices available to IT managers and staff are growing by leaps and bounds. Of course, the more portable the device, the more likely it is that you’ll have it with you when you need […]

A First Look at Office for Mac 2011 by P. J. Connolly Web Apps for Mac People Office Web Apps are available to both personal and small business users via Windows Live, and enterprise customers that use SharePoint; files can be hosted on Microsofts SkyDrive service or on a SharePoint site. Conditional Formatting Overhauled in […]

When I got into technology journalism, the Big Deal product review was the norm and Apple was on the ropes, having lost all of its leadership position in computing technology to Microsoft. My, how the times have changed; Apple is now the second-largest company in the world in terms of market capitalization, and rather than […]

I wasn’t affected by the Facebook outage of Sept. 23, and I feel sorry for anyone who believes they were let down by the company. That’s not because the company owed these people access to their data. It’s because anyone whose happiness is based on the availability of Facebook, Twitter or any other Website either […]

Cisco’s New VPN Client for iPhone by P. J. Connolly Cisco AnyConnect for Apple iOS The AnyConnect Client for Apple iOS is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store. AnyConnect Up and Running The AnyConnect client maintains a list of recently discovered VPNs; when its connected, an indicator appears on the bar […]

Last week, Jason Brooks blogged about the rumors that Novell was looking to sell off SUSE Linux to VMWare, and the possibilities such a matchup could create. That was what you might call the “glass half-full” look; I’d like to take a stab at the half-empty side of things. I have covered Novell as long […]

Do you have the right to resell software that you’re no longer using? Well, perhaps not, thanks to a ruling of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, which covers the Western states. In the case under discussion, Autodesk, the defendant and appellant, claimed that the plaintiff, one Timothy Vernor, didn’t have the […]

When will Apple get its act together on videoconferencing? In some ways, that’s a funny question to pose, given that the company has in recent years done a good job of pushing the boundaries of video chat technology, first when it added video capabilities to its iChat instant messaging client a few years back, and […]

LogRhythm’s Toolset Combines Power, Ease of Use by P. J. Connolly LogRhythm’s Dashboard View The data processed by LogRhythm can be displayed in an easily configured dashboard view; color-coding by time is available for events. Investigations Made Easy LogRhythms Investigator tool displays parsed log data as well as the complete contents of the log entry, […]