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Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures

Google Glass not to allow face recognition for now

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June 03, 2013
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Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.

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5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures

According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low. READ MORE

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Google Glass not to allow face recognition for now

Google will not allow face recognition on its Glass wearable computer for now, until there are strong privacy protections. READ MORE

Nothing says narcissist like wearing Google Glass on a date

Rosa Golijan, writing on the Your Gadgets blog at Today.com, poses this question in a headline: "Will Google Glass destroy your love life?" She means can you wear Google Glass on a first date. The obvious answer, of course, is yes, yes you can ... as long as you're not interested in there being a second date. READ MORE

A perspective on IP traffic growth

IT professionals, perhaps more than anyone, have a sense of just how fast things are changing in this information-driven world. But Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index, an ongoing study of global IP traffic, adds perspective that may influence some of your thinking when it comes to long-range capacity planning. READ MORE

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How Fortune 500 companies are managing BYOD

Like it or not, IT departments are accepting the fact that employees are bringing smartphones, tablets, and personal laptops to work – and that they will use these devices while on the job. READ MORE

NASA taps 3-D printer company to build space parts in orbit

NASA wants to test out the 3-D printing technology onboard the International Space Station to find out if the technology could be used to manufacture parts in space. READ MORE

Acer to launch 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, unveils 5.7-inch smartphone

Windows 8 is joining the 8-inch tablet bandwagon with a new device from Acer that will launch later this month and come with a price tag between US$400 and $500. READ MORE

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Dell scapegoats Windows 8 -- again

Dell says Windows 8 contributed to a decline in its PC-related revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. READ MORE

Thanks to IT, more people can work from home

Unless you're working at Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer has banned telecommuting, there's a very good chance you are working from home or at a coffee shop. READ MORE

Senate set to sniff 'stinky onion' immigration bill

With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill. READ MORE

Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV): A Little Fun in the Lab

Recently I've done a few labs with OTV in them. Each time, however, I had an OTV SME (subject matter expert) in the lab with me. They configured it and it just "worked magically". No hiccups. No gotchas. READ MORE

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