Monday, March 11, 2013

Review: HP's new thin client raises the bar

  HP has 'no plans to break up,' Whitman claims | Computer science enrollments soared last year, rising 30%
 
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Review: HP's new thin client raises the bar
Thin clients can't be cracked or hacked; they don't have fans or disks to fail; they don't need to be patched nearly as often as Windows; they don't draw much power; and they don't cost a whole lot of money to buy or maintain. Read More


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Capacity Reservation System for Virtual & Cloud Environments
How can a modern IT environment expect to operate effectively without having a functioning capacity reservation system? The simple answer is that it can't. Learn how to manage the demand pipeline for new workload placements in order to improve the accuracy of capacity forecasting and increase agility in response to new workload placement requests. Learn More

HP has 'no plans to break up,' Whitman claims
Struggling Hewlett-Packard has taken several steps this year to assure users and investors that it's working to put past distractions behind it while bolstering its full product line. Read More

Computer science enrollments soared last year, rising 30%
The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29% last year, a pace called "astonishing" by the Computing Research Association. Read More

Some Yahoo employees support Marissa Mayer's decision to axe telecommuting
Yahoo CEO and Google transplant Marissa Mayer has wasted no time in making Yahoo her own and implementing sweeping, and sometimes controversial, changes across the company. Read More


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Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking
Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now

Google will cut 1,200 more jobs at Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 staff, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 staff it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. Read More

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With companies running lean and mean, professional development has increasingly become an individual sport. IT workers have learned to fend for themselves to develop needed skills and gain new mindsets for managing more effectively and adding more value to the workplace. Read More

Middleware is dying -- and for good reason
As acceptance of platform as a service (PaaS) cloud services continues to accelerate, companies are increasingly free to bypass underlying in-house IT infrastructure and OS requirements, focusing instead on the type of services required and service level agreements (SLA). And that spells the beginning of the end of having to deal with the cost and hassles of complex middleware. Read More


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Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy
This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn More.

Google's Singhal: speech, natural language recognition among search's biggest challenges
As Google aims to expand search's ability to answer increasingly difficult questions based on contextual information, several key obstacles still stand in its way. Read More

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Building the perfect Franken-tablet
Finding the right business tablet can be a daunting task. Do you want a 7-inch display or a 10 inch? Built-in keyboard? Snap-on keyboard? Which operating system? What apps? How about ruggedness, style, battery life, price? Read More

NIST, Stanford team to rescue early Tetris from digital oblivion
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University have partnered to save for posterity over 15,000 software programs created in the early days of microcomputing. Read More

Some data-breach victims can't be helped
From the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Department: Security experts trying to tell a Pennsylvania hospital that a pile of its sensitive data belonging to staff -- and possibly patients -- was sitting exposed on the Internet were stymied for five days recently by the fact that no one at the medical facility would respond to their repeated warnings. Read More

 
 
 

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