Tuesday, September 06, 2011

HP's trusty 12c financial calculator turns 30

IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M | VMworld's quirkiest moments

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HP's trusty 12c financial calculator turns 30
Designed for dealmakers, the 12c is engineered to handle complex formulas for calculating loan payments, determining bond yields, and constructing depreciation schedules. It's a cult classic among finance and business professionals. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quest Software

5 Tips for Effective Backup & Recovery
In this Quest white paper, discover proven techniques to maximize and secure your virtual investments. Learn to increase backup speed, maximize throughput, and minimize performance drains while reducing costs. Read the white paper today. Read More.

WHITE PAPER: IBM

Discovering hidden costs in your data center
At the June 2010 meeting of top CFOs at the Financial Executives International (FEI) Canada annual conference, IBM had the opportunity to talk with more than 60 CFOs to determine how much business insight they have on their data centre costs. Read now

IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M
IBM plans to acquire risk analytics company Algorithmics for $387 million, a deal that will bolster its risk management offerings in light of increasing regulation in the financial markets. Read More

VMworld's quirkiest moments
The VMworld Conference, attended by more than 19,000 people, is highlighting the dynamic creativity of VMware's software division managers and technical staff as they present what's in the works for virtualization of desktops, servers and their management. But that doesn't mean this show isn't without its quirky moments. Read More

Researchers' waste management pyramid takes aim at messy computer innards
Johns Hopkins University researchers are thinking green about how to speed up computers and make them last longer. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems

Research—Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications
Gartner report "How to Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications" is a study of three popular website acceleration techniques: network optimization, front-end optimization and edge caching. Read now

Juniper, like Cisco, may cut staff
Like rival Cisco, Juniper is expected to cut its workforce as spending among key customers declines. In a bulletin issued this week, investment firm UBS states that Juniper may cut 10% of its 9,300-strong workforce to reduce expenses and boost profitability in the face of lower spending among service provider and public sector customers. Read More

10 ways to enhance Google+
Google+ has made an impressive debut by signing up more than 25 million users, despite launching as an invite-only beta. Of course, fixes and features get slipped into software prior to official release by its developers, but with Google+ several users have taken it upon themselves to write enhancements in the form of Chrome browser extensions. Read More

Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges
Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the IT managers taking the lead on that trend offer some perspectives on the networking and security challenges it brings. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation

NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware
Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more.

Advocating open source management can be a disaster
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, National Public Radio ran a piece on the challenges of risk management. Government officials, right up to the President, took heat for overblowing the potential danger, whereas surely they'd have been vilified if things had gone the other way and people had died due to insufficient warning. Read More

University tests ERP on new Dell cloud
University of Kentucky CIO Vince Kellen is considering moving some of the university's SAP work to a cloud environment, which would make him a relatively early adopter of ERP in the cloud. Read More

Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging
You've heard the expression, "Two can live as cheaply as one," but can five log as cheaply as one? Five sister clubs of the Canadian Automobile Association pooled their resources to acquire one high-end SIEM and logging system from LogRhythm to meet their logging requirements for PCI compliance. Read More

ScaleXtreme launches hybrid cloud management service
Companies that have as many as 400 servers, including machines running internally as well as in public clouds, can now use a hosted management tool from ScaleXtreme. Read More

Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday
Salesforce.com is strengthening its hand in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, announcing two new partnerships with Infor and Workday that will result in an intermingling of the companies' applications and technologies. Read More



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The world's geekiest license plates
This slideshow goes out to all those drivers who aren't afraid to say it loud: I'm a geek and I'm proud. It's filled with images of vanity plates so geeky that they prompted someone else to take a picture and post it on Flickr. Enjoy.

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