Monday, February 13, 2012

First Look: Cisco Cius

Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years | NASA unplugs last mainframe

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First Look: Cisco Cius
We had a chance to see the Cius tablet at a Cisco office in Boston, and while we weren't able to bring it back to our own lab and pound on it, we did get a pretty good feel for what the Cius is and what it isn't. Read More


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Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth
Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now

Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years
Google goes all hearts and flowers on Feb. 14, at least most years Read More

NASA unplugs last mainframe
It's somewhat hard to imagine that NASA doesn't need the computing power of an IBM mainframe any more but NASA CIO posted on her blog today at the end of the month, the Big Iron will be no more at the space agency. Read More

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 10
In the iOSsphere calendar, Valentine's Day 2012 will be in June. Bring your sweetheart to San Francisco. Read More


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Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud
Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More!

SNL skit busts on Verizon, 4G & LTE: "An old person's nightmare"
Saturday Night Live this past weekend poked fun at Verizon and the gobbledygook of tech jargon it spews regularly in its ads about 4G, LTE and countless models of smartphones (not that Verizon is the only company guilty of this). The SNL skit, featuring a nonstop sales associate in a Verizon store, is spot on with its depiction of today's wireless technobabble as "an old person's nightmare." Read More

Boston police use video to laugh in hacking group Anonymous' face
The Boston Police Department, whose news site was hit recently by the Anonymous hacking group in retaliation for the police force's treatment of Occupy Boston protesters, has issued a video that essentially has the department laughing in the hackers' faces. Read More

H.R. 1981, the jaws of law will eat your Internet rights
Like the great white in Jaws there's proposed legislation about to strike and it's your liberties that will have a chunk missing Read More


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Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management
This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More

IPv6 Week and World IPv6 Launch
On June 8, 2011 the world participated in World IPv6 Day. This was a 24-hour test for web sites to use both an IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously for the same URL. This week was IPv6 Week and later this year there will be World IPv6 Launch. Each of these events has a longer duration with the goal to permanently enable IPv6 on major web sites all over the world. Here is a review of these events... Read More

FAQ: WOA vs. x86, which Windows tablet to pick?
Which Windows tablet makes sense -- the upcoming ARM-based devices that might include Office apps for free or x86-based Windows 8 tablets? Matt Hamblen walks you through some of the pros and cons. Read More

Startup launches array tuned for unstructured, structured data
Startup Starboard Storage Systems came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between structured and unstructured data in order to tailor I/O performance. It's also targeted at virtualized server environments. Read More

Want Your Employees To Do More? Give Them Less
Corporate leaders say they want employees who take on extra initiative for improving the company, but they do little to foster a culture that empowers and rewards employees for doing so. Read More



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