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Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance
Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line. Read More

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WEBCAST: IBM

The Power of Predictive Analytics and Optimization
See how predictive analytics and optimization can enable automated decision-making to better cope with new business conditions, improve the quality and effectiveness of decisions, and learn what works best to continuously improve over time. Learn More

Amazon Web Services launches new certification program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers to get proof of their cloud know-how. Read More

Microsoft's browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. Read More

How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost critical data, and those who will. In other words, if you use technology long enough and neglect to back up your data, you're guaranteed to have at least one extremely bad day. Whether it's theft, loss, fire, flood, corruption, or some form of malware, a single incident can destroy the lion's share of your family photos, personal documents, address books, years-in-the-making music library, and more. Read More

WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp

Oracle RAC Built on FlexPod with VMware
This technical white paper for Database Administrators (DBA) and Data Architects demonstrates how enterprises can apply best practices to deploy Oracle Database 11g R2 GRID Infrastructure with RAC option. Read Now!

Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases
Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information. Read More

Internet taxes: Is the inevitable about to happen?
Some things never happen the way that us pundits expect. Back on Independence Day in 1999 I wrote this about government taxing the purchase of goods over the Internet: "I fully believe in the ingenuity of the government when it comes to imposing taxes. We will be paying these taxes soon." Well, "soon" has not happened yet, but maybe it is getting closer. Read More

From physical to virtual to cloud and everywhere in between
CIOs everywhere are transforming their data centers from purely physical infrastructures located on-premises to virtual infrastructures that also make use of the cloud. Read how one data-driven company made the transition. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com

The Science of Social Listening for Customer Experience
Customers today expect immediate service and fast resolutions from the social Web. These conversations are happening right now, on millions of sites, among millions of people. Are you listening? Learn how your business can transform the customer service experience into a more social one. Learn More!

Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Read More

Online monitoring scheme bad news for security, opponents say
Government efforts to allow law enforcement to intercept all online communications would dramatically weaken Internet companies' ability to secure their infrastructure, opponents say. Read More

Vulnerable terminal servers reflect bigger security problem
Security weaknesses uncovered in terminal servers used to provide an Internet connection to a wide variety of business and industrial equipment exemplify the risk inherent in adapting older systems to modern technology, experts say. Read More

10gen expands MongoDB with storage service
Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store. Read More

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