Computer Crimes Bill : The Computer Crimes Bill was recently enacted by Sri Lankan Parliament and certified by the Speaker as the Computer Crimes Act. This legislation is the result of numerous contributions from sources such as the CINTEC Law Committee, a Sub-Committee ofthe Law Commission and the Ministry of Justice. It is being enacted at a time when advancements are being made in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Sri Lanka, through several development initiatives such as the e-Sri Lanka Project.

Background: Apart from providing a better way of life for society the rapid growth of ICT raises fundamental questions regarding storage of confidential information, privacy, data protection and crime. Computers are not only targeted for crime but are also important instruments used in the commission of other offences such as theft, fraud, forgery, damage, deletion of business information and sabotage of computer facilities, etc.

The term “Computer Crime” is a generic term used to identify all crimes or frauds that are connected with or related to computers and information technology.

Generally computer crime consists of three components. They are:-

(1) Computer Related crimes – Computers used as a tool for criminal activity such as theft, fraud,etc.

(2) Hacking offences – which affects integrity, availability and confidentiality of a computer system or network (also includes the introduction of viruses, worms etc).

(3) Content related Cyber Crime – where computers together with Internet resources are used to distribute illegal data. Eg;- Internet based pornography, criminal copyright infringement

How we Deal with Peak Storage I/O: Performance tuning and dealing with peaks in storage I/O demands has now become a top concern for storage administrators. In fact in a recent surveyconducted by Storage Switzerland over 50% of the respondents listed performance tuning and troubleshooting as the biggest storage challenge caused by server virtualization. It is also the primary reason often given for virtualization stall because the organization struggles with how to maintain performance service levels with the business units.

One solution is to build is a much faster storage infrastructure. Storage networks built on 10GbE are affordable and deliver a significant performance boost to the environment especially those that do not have to deal with IP overhead. The other option is to understand your environment and make better use of the current resources. The reality is you will probably need to build both a faster network and now how to fine tune that network.