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How Bill Gates proves he's Bill Gates
As I type, Bill Gates is conducting an "Ask Me Anything" session with the Reddit community, where interview subjects - not all of whom are famous or identified by name -- are routinely required to provide forum moderators with proof that they are indeed who they claim to be. This is the picture Gates provided ... and it's priceless: Read More

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A Guide for a Successful ERP Strategy in the Midmarket
Combining an experienced service partner with an informed ERP strategy helps to maximize ROI. This helps midmarket organizations to contain costs, communicate effectively, and improve to grow into more successful organizations. Learn More.

12 hybrid cloud security products to watch
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Windows 8 Surface Pro sells out quickly, was that on purpose?
The 128GB Microsoft Surface Pro tablet (some are saying it is not really a tablet, but more on that later) has sold out in just about all of the places it was available. Microsoft directly and the few retail outlets in which it was made available are all reporting out of stock messages. There are some 64GB models available but those are pretty scarce already too. Is this due to the demand for the... Read More

VMware's problems are deeper than just Microsoft
Remember this blog post? It's my now infamous "Bell tolls for thee" blog that I authored just after VMworld last year. This was the blog for which I was so soundly flogged by the VMware community in the comments section, and even received a few nasty emails. (By the way, I do want to thank all of the people who comment on my blogs. Whether you agree or disagree with me, it's always good to have... Read More

Flickr privacy bug changes some private photos to public, then public to private
Across the web, you may frequently come across broken Flickr images replaced with "This image or video is currently unavailable." Flickr discovered a software bug that affected privacy settings; some users' private photos became public for 20 days, then as a precaution Flickr set public photos to private. The result is "bad" links all over the place that cause the "currently unavailable" error message.... Read More

Feds offer $20M for critical energy network cybersecurity tools
The US Department of Energy today said it would spend $20 million on the development of advanced cybersecurity tools to help protect the nation's vulnerable energy supply. The DOE technologies developed under this program should be interoperable, scalable, cost-effective advanced tools that do not impede critical energy delivery functions, that are innovative and can easily be commercialized or made... Read More

You can't be too rich, too thin, or have too much Internet bandwidth
As we move into the era of the cloud, and further into the era of BYOD and the explosion of personal/consumer use of the Internet as a fundamental expectation of individual workers and their devices, having much more bandwidth at each enterprise location will be critical to the efficiency of enterprise IT. Yet I also believe that this topic is rarely given the consideration it is due. Read More

PGA touts use of rugged handhelds for scoring and ticket scanning
Professional golf teed off for another season in 2013 with the use of rugged handheld computers to help lower costs and improve efficiency in scoring and reading tickets at the gate. Read More

What President Obama CAN Do About Cybersecurity
When it comes to cybersecurity and public policy, I'm as big a cynic as anyone. Why? From a historical perspective, cybersecurity issues were first recognized during the Bush administration (41, not 43). Over the subsequent 20+ years we've experienced misinformed rhetoric, overlapping agendas, and inaction but little meaningful progress. Read More

PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?
Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. Read More

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