Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration

12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros | Kundra, first CIO of U.S., joins Salesforce

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Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration
Dell today announced its first deduplication appliance, along with an upgrade to its Compellent Storage Center management software that includes tighter integration with VMware. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

What to Look for in Smart Card Readers
Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More

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Evolving Your Data Center Network Security
Palo Alto Networks, Brocade, and guest speaker Principal Analyst John Kindervag from Forrester Research, Inc. will discuss the evolution of data center networks, and how leading-edge organizations are implementing next-generation data center network security. Click to continue

12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros
Ditch the slackers, take on dirty work, do it with data -- here's how to get the inside track on a highly rewarding career in IT Read More

Kundra, first CIO of U.S., joins Salesforce
Salesforce on Monday said that Vivek Kundra, who was the first person to serve as CIO of the U.S. federal government, has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

Why Managing VMs is So Complex
Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now!

5 Tips to Keep IT Outsourcing on Track as Global Providers Cut
Are you prepared as global IT outsourcers shrink onshore staff? These tips will help you keep projects moving as offshore IT service provides cut back on the on-site staff that used to work as liaisons between customer and provider. Read More

5 key takeaways from CES
As is often the case, the expectations of what will be the big story at the Consumer Electronics Show are different from what actually becomes the big story. Read More


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Driving Business Value with VBlock Infrastructure Platforms
With Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, organizations of any size can rapidly deploy a pervasive virtual infrastructure and implement a private cloud while lowering risk and operating expenses. Learn More

Windows 8 on ARM: You can look but you can't touch
For a touch-based interface it was awfully hard to get hold of. Microsoft's Windows 8 OS was shown on a handful of prototype ARM-based tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, but almost no one was allowed to try it out. Read More

IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms
IBM researchers have discovered a way to create a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms, which compares to today's magnetic data storage technology requiring about one million atoms for a single bit. Read More

IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10
IBM retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the list of U.S. patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. Read More



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CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets
Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy!

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