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Steve Jobs at Apple: In Pictures

Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise | Wi-Fi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds

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Steve Jobs at Apple: In Pictures
Apple Chairman Steve Jobs arguably made as much of an impact on our society as any technologist ever could. He passed away yesterday at the age of 56. Here's a look back at the illustrious career of Steve Jobs, from his humble beginnings to his resignation as CEO of Apple this year. Read More


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The industry transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is creating new quality of service (QoS) challenges. This paper examines best practices for analyzing, monitoring and controlling bandwidth in VMware vSphere 4.1 environments when using Dell servers and Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit server adapters. Click to continue

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The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now

Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise
Things are about to get a little hotter for Cisco in the enterprise market. Huawei, the cut-rate Chinese competitor Cisco fears most, is formalizing its entry into the U.S. and global enterprise market. Read More

Wi-Fi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds
New research conducted on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance shows that while wireless users are making strides on the security front, they're still leaving their Wi-Fi networks too open to intruders. Read More

Steve Jobs narrates "Crazy Ones" Think Different ad in never-aired clip
Though the final advertisement featured narration from Richard Dreyfus, this video is a never-aired copy featuring narration from Steve Jobs himself. Read More

Steve Jobs and Life in the Shadow of Death
Six years ago, standing in the warm California sun on June 12, 2005, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs spoke to the graduating class of Stanford University. It was a spare and deceptively simple speech "about three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories." Read More


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A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud
Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now

Apple fans create makeshift memorial outside the home of Steve Jobs
Video: Mourners gathered outside the former Apple Chairman's home in Palo Alto. Read More

Steve Jobs remembered fondly in San Francisco.
Video: Tech fans gathered outside of an Apple store on Wednesday night to talk about Steve Jobs when the news of his death broke. Read More

Patrizio: My Memories of Steve Jobs
I wasn't looking forward to this day, but after certain pictures, I knew it was coming. The world has lost one of the most significant figures of the last century. Everyone will write their tributes. This is mine. Read More

Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports
There's a shortage of .Net talent in every area of the U.S., says Dice.com. Tech professionals who regularly develop for the Microsoft framework earn about $83,000 a year, the IT jobs specialist reports. Read More


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Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative
IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement Read More!

Red Hat Pays $136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why?
As my Network World editor Julie Bort covered earlier this week, Red Hat made their first (and being it is October, maybe their only) acquisition of the year this week by buying Silicon Valley based, scale out storage vendor Gluster. Gluster develops the GlusterFS file system and the Gluster open source project. Read More

BofA says it wasn't hacked; website problems persist
Bank of Americas online banking website has at times been inaccessible in various U.S. locations in recent days, and it continues to experience performance issues, according to Internet and mobile cloud monitoring services. Read More

Startup promotes simultaneous upgrades to IPv6, cloud
A start-up consulting firm founded by former Cisco engineers is targeting a new niche for enterprise IT departments: helping them deploy IPv6 and cloud computing simultaneously to reduce overhead costs. Read More

Will Amazon Kindle Fire Burn Up the Enterprise?
With the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, another Android device enters the mass market and will inevitably make its way to the enterprise. Read More



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