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Google’s giant datacenters – an inside look

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Google's giant datacenters – an inside look
Google releases new information on its enormous computing infrastructure Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers
The market for blade servers is becoming ever more complex and diverse due to the convergence of related modular form factors, a fast-growing interest in fabric-based infrastructure and the influence of cloud computing on buying behavior. Download the Gartber Magic Quadrant to see how the vendors in blade servers stack up. Read Now!

WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point

Auburn University at Montgomery: A Blackboard Case Study
Finding Balance for Network Traffic with Blackboard Learn and Coyote Point. Read Now

Juniper trimming up for a sale?
Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. Read More

Try this on your iPad: Microsoft exec skateboards on Windows RT Surface tablet
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IBM makes security push with cloud services, products aimed at mobile and Big Data
IBM today widened its security offerings with products and cloud-based services focused broadly on both mobile devices and Big Data, both areas where IBM foresees growth as enterprises sort out their strategies toward both. Read More

7 ways Windows Server 2012 pays for itself
These new and improved 'supersaver' features offer the biggest return on your Windows Server 2012 investment Read More


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Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments
Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more.

VMware extends support for ESX hypervisor in OpenStack
Continuing its commitment to the OpenStack project and its newfound vision to support multiple types of cloud platforms, VMware announced support for its ESX hypervisor in OpenStack today. Read More

Windows 8 Tablets in the Enterprise: The Pros and Cons
In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their touch-enabled tablets to work. Read More

Microsoft's magic trick: Making 100,000 Metro apps appear
A Microsoft vice president raised a few eyebrows among the tech punditocracy when he said there would be 100,000 apps for Windows 8 within 90 days after the operating system launches on October 26. In an interview with Beet.tv, Keith Lorizio, vice president of U.S. sales and marketing at Microsoft, said the company is "expecting to aggressively pursue 100,000-plus apps in the first three months" Windows... Read More

Salesforce.com Looks Ready To Dump Oracle
Last Friday the NY Times Bit blog ran a story about some hiring news at Salesforce.com. They are looking for 4 or 5 PostgreSQL developers, but also took the unusual step of announcing that his was just a first step towards hiring 40 or 50 more developers next year who are proficient on PostgreSQL, the open source database. Read More


WEBCAST: Oracle

Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure
IDC's proven ROI methodology makes the business case, with quantifiable financial benefits, to refresh data center systems infrastructure. Learn more

Deanonymizing You: I know who you are after 1 click online or a mobile call
If you like your privacy when you are using your cellphone or surfing cyberspace, then you might find it disturbing how easily you can be personally identified while doing either. Here's a look at two different deanonymizing processes by which your privacy can be obliterated. Read More

Pacemaker hack can deliver deadly 830-volt jolt
Pacemakers from several manufacturers can be commanded to deliver a deadly, 830-volt shock from someone on a laptop up to 50 feet away, the result of poor software programming by medical device companies. Read More

Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the Web
Tux the Penguin and friends geek up Halloween pumpkins Read More

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Complete guide to the iPhone 5
With more than 5 million already sold, the iPhone 5 is certainly a hit. But if you want to get optimum use of your iPhone 5, this PDF will lead you down the primrose path of smartphone success. Read More



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