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6 best Android Honeycomb tablets you can buy now
Tablet makers are racing to deliver products based on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Honeycomb was devised specifically for tablet use, unlike prior versions of Android, which companies tried to bootstrap onto tablets with mixed results, when compared to Apple's iPad. Here are six Honeycomb tablets that are the most notable in what could soon become a crowded -- and confusing -- field this year. Read More


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Data Center Transformations
Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now!

Top 5 things to do before buying more security technology
Throwing more technology at security threats as they crop up is not the best way to go if the goal is to protect the most valuable data at the best price, attendees at Interop were told this week. Read More

Facebook-Google 'cold war' suddenly gets hot
Facebook's surreptitious public relations campaign against Google shows how intense the competition has become between the two companies -- and what lengths Facebook will go to in the fight. Read More

Daily Innovation Smackdown: Steve Ballmer vs. Ray Ozzie
It is not exactly a matchup of the teacher vs. the student, but Steve Ballmer was Ray Ozzie's boss at Microsoft until Ozzie left last year. Ozzie created Lotus Notes while Ballmer has continued Microsoft's juggernaut ways. Cast your vote! Read More

Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why
When technology manager Lincoln Cannon wants to give his company's employees and business partners controlled access to various internal resources or cloud-based services the company uses, he goes to one cloud-based single sign-on security service to assign access privileges. Read More


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Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared
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Is WiMAX dead or thriving?
OK, so I was the only holdout on a trends-oriented wireless panel discussion at Interop this week when we got around to the prospects for WiMAX's future (or lack thereof). Read More

Vidyo's mobile videoconferencing app showcased on iPad 2
You're staring at your iPad 2 screen, at what looks like four pictures of four coworkers quartering the display. And then one of them waves at you. And you wave back. And the videoconference starts. Read More

Unchecked usage can kill cost benefits of cloud services
The touted cost savings associated with cloud services didn't pan out for Ernie Neuman, not because the savings weren't real, but because the use of the service got out of hand. Read More

Brocade's Klayko sees long path to cloud
Brocade Communications remains a networking specialist in an industry where networks are becoming just part of a broader architecture for many vendors. A longtime market leader in Fibre Channel SANs (storage area networks), Brocade acquired Ethernet switch maker Foundry Networks in 2008 and now offers to tie together all elements of a data center or broader cloud infrastructure. CEO Michael Klayko has led Brocade since 2005. Last Tuesday, during an all-day press and analyst event at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California, he talked with IDG News Service about his company's own infrastructure and how it plans to keep up with bigger rivals. Read More


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A Cost-Effective Solution for ITSM
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White House delivers cybersecurity legislation
The White House today sent its cybersecurity legislation to Capitol Hill, asking for changes in the law that will give the Dept. of Homeland Security more authority and duties in overseeing both private-sector and government networks. The White House is also asking for a national data-breach law that would supercede the patchwork of state data-breach laws now in place around the country. Read More

Windows 7's malware infection rate climbs, XP's falls
Data released today by Microsoft showed that Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by more than 30% during the second half of 2010, even as the infection rate of the 10-year-old Windows XP fell by more than 20%. Read More

Cisco's Yen left Juniper for personal reasons
David Yen left Juniper for personal reasons. QFabric, which is really Founder and CTO Pradeep Sindhu's baby, will go on without him and his departure does not signal anything amiss in Juniper's data center/cloud fabric strategy. Read More

Best Tidbit from Interop: Amazon is Hiring!
It's the last day of the Interop show, and I happened by the Amazon booth. They are hiring in IT groups all over Amazons business units. And when some of the folks working the booth flip their badges over, it says "we're hiring". And for what? Lots of things, but many look like good matches for anyone who's working towards their Cisco certs, at any level. Read More



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