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Intelliprotect, automating your online privacy
Privacy has become a big deal, but only in certain circles. Consider the average consumer. If you ask them whether they are concerned about their privacy, they'll tell you that they are, yet the average consumer has no idea what that really means – privacy for most people is a pretty abstract idea. Read More


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Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance
Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more

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Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief
The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. Learn More Now.

Microsoft: BPOS components average 99.9-plus percent uptime
The hosted applications in Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) have averaged uptime of 99.9% or better in the past year, according to the company. Read More

HTML5 in the browser: Local data storage
HTML5 Web Storage, Web Database, FileReader, FileWriter, and AppCaching APIs will transform Web pages into local applications, but not yet. Read More

Google tightens Apps' uptime guarantee
Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communication software experiences downtime. Read More

Mozilla delivers latest Firefox 4 beta
Mozilla today shipped Firefox 4 Beta 9, perhaps the last it will release before it pushes toward a final version now planned to ship by the end of February. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

Delivering Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The benefits of moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure can easily be negated by an unreliable or poorly performing implementation. A joint F5-Microsoft solution can improve performance, increase reliability, and enable the seamless scalability of a Microsoft VDI implementation. Read now!

Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier
The Apple co-founder also analyzes Oracle's acquisition strategy, the tablet space, and new trends in enterprise memory. Read More

Business apps target consumer devices
Traditional enterprise software vendors are building tools that let people use consumer-oriented devices on the job. Read More

Downloads to recover your files and save your bacon
Losing important files--whether they're business documents, precious photos, or even favorite videos or songs--is certainly distressing. The data isn't necessarily gone forever, though. Whether you've deleted files accidentally or lost your entire drive to a crash or a disaster, you can try to retrieve the data with help from the following utilities. Read More

Microsoft Office 2010 upgrades: Four pitfalls to avoid
From training worries to compatibility woes, fears of business disruption can spread when IT announces a Microsoft Office 2010 upgrade. Here's how IT can steer clear of four big upgrade mistakes. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

Load Balancers Are Dead!
Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now!

New Mule refines cloud deployments
MuleSoft updates its open source Mule enterprise software bus. Read More

Rip CDs with iTunes
Much as Apple and Amazon would be thrilled if you populated your iTunes library with nothing but tracks purchased from the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3, there's a very good chance that you already have a load of music just waiting to make its way to your computer and iOS device—your CD library. Here are the steps for turning your discs into digital files. Read More

Verizon vs. AT&T: Which can feed iPhone's need for speed?
Will the iPhone swamp the Verizon network, just like it did to AT&T's network? Should you wait for the iPhone 5 that may or may not run on faster 4G networks? CIO.com breaks down the network battle. Read More

Details emerge of patents Novell is selling to Microsoft
Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for US$450 million, about two months after the deal was first announced. Read More

Microsoft turns up the heat on Salesforce.com, Oracle
Microsoft announced that its CRM Online software is now available in 40 markets around the world, bringing it in closer competition with Salesforce.com and Oracle's CRM on Demand. Read More



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