Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Survey casts doubt on cloud adoption; Nortel: Why Avaya?

Nortel: Why Avaya?; Microsoft Research looking to make Outlook more social
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Survey casts doubt on cloud adoption

Only 15% of corporate customers have adopted or are considering adopting cloud technology over the next year. Read full story

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Nortel: Why Avaya?
If Avaya buys up Nortel's enterprise properties, the new entity will have product overlap issues but they'll be overshadowed by something more important: customers.

Microsoft Research looking to make Outlook more social
Ron Barrett, A Better Windows World: Microsoft Research is designing a new Outlook add-in that will redesign the look of your e-mail user interface. The new project is called "Social Views of e-mail."

IBM embraces private cloud model within its own firewall
Big Blue is building several types of private cloud services within its own firewall to help deliver development and research tools to employees.

IBM supercomputer to heat university buildings
Excess waste heat from a supercomputer being constructed by IBM will be used to warm nearby university buildings in Switzerland.

Supercomputers go from biggest to cheapest
The increasing power of supercomputers has gone from gee-whiz to ho-hum. IBM, with its petaflop-exceeding Roadrunner, seems to maintain a near permanent position on the Top500 supercomputer list.

IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings
IBM, HP, Cray, Intel dominate Top 500 supercomputer list.

June Giveaways
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June 30, 2009

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  1. Windows 7 in Pictures: 10 Cool Desktop Features
  2. Cisco sends employees home to work
  3. Fake Microsoft Update email scam
  4. Nortel: Why Avaya?
  5. Windows 7 for $50, for two weeks only
  6. IBM supercomputer to heat university
  7. Google begins sending out Google Voice invites
  8. The Pirate Bay to Take On YouTube, Hulu
  9. Nortel lays off execs connected to Microsoft ICA partnership
  10. Wi-Fi pricing models vary widely

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Analyzing online content with OpenAmplify

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Analyzing online content with OpenAmplify

Making sense of Web content is mostly easy for humans but rarely easy for computers. Part of the issue is that recognizing the "interesting" parts of online content involves what is mostly unstructured data, making the task very difficult. Read full story

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Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30.

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June 30, 2009

TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES

  1. Windows 7 in Pictures: 10 Cool Desktop Features
  2. Cisco sends employees home to work
  3. Fake Microsoft Update email scam
  4. Nortel: Why Avaya?
  5. Windows 7 for $50, for two weeks only
  6. IBM supercomputer to heat university
  7. Google begins sending out Google Voice invites
  8. The Pirate Bay to Take On YouTube, Hulu
  9. Nortel lays off execs connected to Microsoft ICA partnership
  10. Wi-Fi pricing models vary widely

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NASA boosts packet inspection on 10 Gig WAN links

DARPA wants a super-efficient supercomputer that can fit into a 19-inch cabinet, thanks; Survey looks for needs, plans of Cisco WAAS, WAN optimization users
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Polling Results: Leading IT Pros Weigh In on Top IT Issues
Accelerate your knowledge of the IT world you inhabit by viewing the results of a series of polls taken by your IT peers. These polls of 100+ IT professionals each are available for full viewing. They cover key topics such as virtualization, processor performance, green IT, cloud computing and many others.

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NASA boosts packet inspection on 10 Gig WAN links

NASA has turned to a start-up specializing in packet inspection to monitor some of its 10G bit/sec WAN links. Read full story

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DARPA wants a super-efficient supercomputer that can fit into a 19-inch cabinet, thanks
If you can squish all the processing power of, say, an IBM Roadrunner supercomputer inside a 19-inch box and make it run on about 60 kilowatts of electricity, the government wants to talk to you.

Survey looks for needs, plans of Cisco WAAS, WAN optimization users
Network World bloggers Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel, consultants at application performance advisor NetForecast, are surveying WAN optimization users -- including users of Cisco's WAAS appliance -- about their WAN optimization needs, plans, and preferences.

Network performance worries delay app deployments
Apparent Networks' survey reveals IT managers put off new VoIP, video and unified communications deployments due to network performance worries.

Cisco sends employees home to work
Cisco survey of employees shows internal telework program saves money and satisfies workers.

Survey casts doubt on cloud adoption
Only 15% of corporate customers have adopted or are considering adopting cloud technology over the next year.

A day in the life of 3G
Only after the thrill of picking out your new smart phone is over -- after you've marveled at all the stylish new gadgetry and features, signed a service contract and finally laid your money down -- do you finally get a feel for the speed and reliability of the wireless service that connects your new phone.

Juniper boosts edge routers for multimedia
Juniper this week announced enhancements to its service provider edge routers that are designed to improve multimedia service delivery to users.

June Giveaways
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30.

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Keep Storage Costs in Check with Tape
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June 30, 2009

TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES

  1. Windows 7 in Pictures: 10 Cool Desktop Features
  2. Cisco sends employees home to work
  3. Fake Microsoft Update email scam
  4. Nortel: Why Avaya?
  5. Windows 7 for $50, for two weeks only
  6. IBM supercomputer to heat university
  7. Google begins sending out Google Voice invites
  8. The Pirate Bay to Take On YouTube, Hulu
  9. Nortel lays off execs connected to Microsoft ICA partnership
  10. Wi-Fi pricing models vary widely

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