Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties

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	Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties In a bid to save money or redirect funds to product development, Seagate and Western Digital are cutting hard drive warranties -- in some cases from five years to one. Read More WHITE PAPER: Bradford Networks (BYOD) Unleashed in the Age of IT Consumerization IT departments need to understand what devices are trying to connect to their networks, so they can provide convenient, secure access to those that are authorized, including personal iPads and smartphones. This white paper explains how IT departments can implement a practical and secure strategy and offer the convenience mobile devices provide. Read more In this Issue 7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much to IT Service Providers For Microsoft's last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler 30 years ago, a battered AT&T cried Uncle Sam RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks Evolving Your Data Center Network Security Palo Alto Networks, Brocade, and guest speaker Principal Analyst John Kindervag from Forrester Research, Inc. will discuss the evolution of data center networks, and how leading-edge organizations are implementing next-generation data center network security. Click to continue 7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much to IT Service Providers Have you outsourced too many IT services? Once an organization gets a taste of the benefits of IT outsourcing, the hunger for more naturally increases. But the ROI quickly diminishes as internal IT service organization shrink. If these seven traits apply to your company, you've outsourced too much. Read More For Microsoft's last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect Microsoft's motion-sensing Kinect technology will be available for Windows PCs in a few weeks and is destined for a lot more than just gaming, CEO Steve Ballmer said at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch By shifting from traditional mid-sized branches to several very small locations, the enterprise can more agilely address its business needs. Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement & lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, & service costs. Read Now SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday. Read More Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 8 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler Read More 30 years ago, a battered AT&T cried Uncle Sam It was 30 years ago yesterday - Jan. 8, 1982 - that AT&T agreed under extreme antitrust duress to divest itself of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, the so-called Baby Bells. Read More
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