Monday, October 31, 2011

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Windows 7 Migration Made Easier with Desktop Virtualization
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PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky
Whether the Halloween timing is coincidental or not, this robot's latest video release from Boston Dynamics is evoking comparisons to The Terminator. Read More

RIM's PlayBook: Buy two, get one free
Customers who buy two BlackBerry PlayBooks will get a third one free, in what one analyst says is an effort by Research In Motion to boost flagging sales. Read More


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AT&T gets its first LTE phones next week
AT&T is getting ready to add the one crucial piece that's been missing from its LTE rollout: smartphones. Read More

20 high-tech toilets
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Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management
In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More!

Canonical to expand Ubuntu for smartphones, tablets
Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Read More

New $89 open-source hardware runs full Linux OS
An open-source hardware group on Monday announced a US$89 credit-card sized motherboard based on an ARM processor that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices. Read More

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Everyone has heard of Cisco SMARTnet. We all know what it is and what is does, and what resources are available to us, right? Well, not so fast. Read More

How to Fire People the Right Way
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Service Assurance Defined
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The Most Important Metric for your VMs
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Desktop virtualization: Parallels vs. VMware vs. VirtualBox
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Performance Metrics and the Cloud
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The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky for suggesting that PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would happily concede that to operating system makers and hardware manufacturers. Read More


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Securing the web application lifecycle does not mean slowing it down. When delivery is implemented in a collaborative, repeatable, and process-oriented manner, companies can benefit from more efficient development models and more secure applications. Read Now

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The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications. Read More

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IBM opens up smartphone, tablet support for its workers
IBM has embraced the growing 'bring your own device' trend by allowing its employees to buy and use their own smartphones and tablets for work tasks, said IBM's CTO for mobility, Bill Bodin. Read More


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Date/Time: November 3, 1:30 PM EST Join this webcast from CIO.com and HP as we explore recent advances in automated discovery and dependency mapping and hear from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida how they addressed their discovery challenges, the lessons they've learned and pitfalls you can avoid. Learn More

IT consultant resume makeover: How to land IT management jobs
There comes a time in many IT consultants' careers when they decide to exchange the trappings of their jet-set professional lives for a corporate IT job with more stability. For Sevin Straus, an IT consultant based in Chicago, that moment came at the height of the financial crisis in 2009. Read More

Introducing the System Center 2012 lineup
Initially envisioned in 2003 as an umbrella over Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server with consolidated reporting, System Center has grown through several waves of staggered releases. Now with the 2012 version, including eight components and a tweak to the name, here's what we see at the end of October. Read More

Microsoft takes 'social' cue from Salesforce.com for its CRM
Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its Dynamics CRM (customer-relationship-management) software, which adds some social software functionality as well as closer ties to the Office 365 online productivity suite. Read More



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