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. First ARM-based blade servers

    With ARM announcing its 64-bit ARM architecture for servers and HP launching its 32-bit ARM-based server range, the feat towards a greener IT will take a big leap. The HP Redstone Server Development Platform is the first in a line of HP server development platforms that feature extreme low-energy server processors. Initially incorporating Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex™ processors, but future... Read More

  2. Five Don’ts for SysAdmins: Bad Habits that Can Decrease Your System Efficiency

    Netwrix joins the madness of the forthcoming SysAdmin Day and offers some typical bad advice that no system administrator should ever follow... Read More

  3. Fix for a 19 year old bug

    The IBM X-Force Research team has identified a significant data manipulation vulnerability that affects every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward... Read More

  4. Flexible Battery revealed by Korean Scientists

    The limitation in physical flexibility of portable devices can be defeated thanks to a super-thin and flexible battery invented by Korean scientists. The battery which seems to be commercially viable, can lead to gadgets that can be folded away into your pocket. The battery remains one of the largest single parts of any portable device but this lithium-ion battery is... Read More

  5. FlowBAT - Flow Analysis GUI

    Network Flow data provides a significant amount of context with minimal storage overhead providing historical data that can account for every connection into and out of your network, but its adoption has been slowed because most of the tools available for performing flow data analysis can be challenging to use... Read More

  6. FortyCloud Introduces Game-Changing Network Security Service that Lets Companies Turn Their Public Cloud -- Private

    Trailblazing Startup’s Security-As-A-Service Signals Arrival of New Approach to Public Cloud Security... Read More

  7. Four Lessons Retailers Should Have Learned from the Target Security Breach

    Netwrix recommends best practices for retailers to maintain security during holiday shopping season... Read More

  8. Free Automated Hardware and Software Inventory Platform

    Open Computer and Software (OCS) Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network... Read More

  9. Free Bulk Password Reset tool

    Netwrix Corporation, a well-established provider of change auditing software solutions, has released a full-featured edition of its Bulk Password Reset tool for free! The free tool includes: • Reset passwords on all local accounts. • Enable or disable local accounts. • Re-processing of password reset attempts both automatic and manual if for example, the host system were powered off during... Read More

  10. Free Cloud-based Vulnerability Scanner

    Tripwire SecureScan provides free vulnerability scanning for up to 100 IPs and includes comprehensive detection rules for Heartbleed to uncover the vulnerability wherever it may lie on your network... Read More

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