Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Seven ethical questions | Microsoft being evil and a CMS being very, very good.

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Online art and design
There was a time when art and design were things that were only displayed on the Web; the actual creation of art was an offline activity because the tools to support painting, drawing, and image manipulation were too resource and bandwidth intensive to be done on line. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Storwize

Inside New Data Compression Technology
Meet the demanding primary storage requirements for random access, high transaction volumes and high throughput. Examine how real-time compression tackles key requirements for primary storage data, including; performance, simplicity, data reduction, and high availability. Learn more

E-GUIDE: Compuware

Perfecting Application Performance
The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now.

WHITE PAPER: Brocade

Q&A: Virtualization and Cloud Preparedness
As more applications are added per compute node in a virtual environment, there is a corresponding increase in I/O requirements. In this Q&A with Brocade CTO, Dave Stevens, he answers questions on how to ensure your network infrastructure, all the way down to the storage level, is ready for virtualization. Read More!

WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide
Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More!

Seven ethical questions
Gibbs ponders business ethics and has seven questions for you. What do you think? And why? Read More

Microsoft being evil and a CMS being very, very good.
Mark Gibbs complains about Microsoft's Office Live Workspace Beta, which apparently can't be removed and ocPortal, a FOSS CMS solution that he thinks is amazingly good. Read More



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SLIDESHOWS

21 apps Apple doesn't want on your 3.0 iPhone
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Most of us love gadgets. But there is a certain eye-popping reaction when we find a gadget that speaks to our technological selves. Owning such devices would surely be the subject of teasing from those who deny their inner geek, but it would also be the cause of more than a little envy.

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