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	Top 10 tech gadgets of 2012 Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful. Read Now. In this Issue Gartner: 10 critical IT trends for the next five years Latest on Amazon EBS cloud failure Tech predictions gone wrong Country's largest 4-year university expels Cisco, saves $100 million Smart buildings get smarter Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has his head in the cloud (again) '80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!' and other IT ad favorites through the years Startup tech vendors are worth the risk, say IT execs Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams Huawei too dangerous to do business with? 2012 Tech Industry Graveyard WEBCAST: Riverbed 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Mapping out a 5 step consolidation process can ensure that the goals of IT consolidation are achieved. Read this white paper to learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs. Read More Gartner: 10 critical IT trends for the next five years Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is not a job for the faint of heart. That point was driven home at Gartner's IT annual IT Symposium fest here where analyst David Cappuccio outlined what he called "new forces that are not easily controlled by IT are pushing themselves to the forefront of IT spending." Read More Latest on Amazon EBS cloud failure Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes." It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. It warns that instances using EBS volumes will also experience degraded performance. Read More Tech predictions gone wrong The computer industry and the customers it serves have proven to be extraordinarily slippery during the past 45 years. Read More Country's largest 4-year university expels Cisco, saves $100 million A decision to oust Cisco in favor of Alcatel-Lucent is saving California State University $100 million. Read More Smart buildings get smarter Behind the glittering, sculpted glass skin of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's new 13-story headquarters beats the heart of one of the most energy-efficient office buildings in the world. Read More Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has his head in the cloud (again) Cloudwashing has become so rampant that even Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has gotten into the game ... and it's the first time for him, either. You can see the full strip here, but this is now the conversation begins Sunday between PHB and Dilbert: PHB: I need you to cloudwash our software. Read More '80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!' and other IT ad favorites through the years Elvira hawking development software, a computer with "briefcase portability," the cure for COBOLitis... Advertisements published in Computerworld since 1967 have promised all this and more. Here are 10 of the most entertaining IT ads from the archives for our 45th anniversary. Read More Startup tech vendors are worth the risk, say IT execs Working with startup vendors requires a lot of legwork and a plan for managing the risk. But the payoff can be great. Read More Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Read More Huawei too dangerous to do business with? The controversy swirling around use of Huawei telecom gear raises some interesting questions about the global nature of business and the future of cyberwarfare. Read More 2012 Tech Industry Graveyard Apple, Cisco, Microsoft and Google among those bidding farewell to products Read More
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