Friday - May 9, 2008
Three interesting topics were kicked around in Apple-minded blogs this week. Entirely unsurprisingly, survey results show that Apple tech support kicks butt in the PC industry at large. Also, AT&T is forbidding vacation time to hapless iPhone salespeople, and it appears Macs have gotten a foot in the door at work. Consumer Reports is one of the most respected product and service reviewing publications in the U.S. The magazine recently surveyed its readers and ranked the best tech support in the PC industry.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
A mass SQL injection attack has infected hundreds of thousands -- as many as 500,000, according to some accounts -- of normally trusted Web sites, including those of the United Nations and several governments. The attack is unusual in some ways that are worrying the Internet security community.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be done.
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Tuesday - April 15, 2008
The clock is ticking for Microsoft to roll out the third and likely final service pack for its seven-year-old Windows XP operating system. Microsoft announced at the end of 2007 that the long-awaited service pack would be released sometime during the first half of 2008; however, thus far the company has remained mum about the official date and details of the release.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Companies evaluating iSCSI are driven primarily by the need to lower the cost of their storage infrastructure. However, adoption of iSCSI storage solutions by large enterprises has been slow. A recent study by Aberdeen provides evidence that iSCSI is now replacing or supplementing fibre channel and other competing technologies in all market segments, including large enterprises.
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Wednesday - April 2, 2008
HP has released a number of new offerings targeting the mid-market, including new Linux management tools, remote security access products and -- for companies embarking on a customer relationship management implementation -- two new additions to the HP ProLiant server line that include configuration blueprints for two popular applications: Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle's Siebel CRM.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
North American manufacturers have faced years of intense, globalized competition. This onslaught compelled them to modernize their manufacturing processes to compete effectively. The result has been that many plants have become models of efficiency and agility. This modernization allowed manufacturers to more quickly adjust production to address shifts in demand and business goals.
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Saturday - March 22, 2008
The potential to increase server utilization is the primary reason virtualization has been gaining traction in the enterprise. Cost reductions -- through greater data center efficiency, flexibility, lower energy usage and space needs -- are others. Though it does not directly impact the functional footprint of IT systems, virtualization can enable organizations to manage them more efficiently.
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Thursday - March 20, 2008
Battling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a "feature-complete" version of its Hyper-V product. A hypervisor is a virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on one host computer at the same time.
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Monday - March 17, 2008
While IT journalists debate whether or not 2008 will indeed be "the year of virtualization," an October 2007 report from Gartner named "Virtualization 2.0" one of the top ten strategic technologies for 2008. There is no doubt that recent years have seen a steady increase in enterprises adopting server virtualization.
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Sunday - March 16, 2008
Guido Sacchi, CIO and senior vice president of corporate strategies at CompuCredit, decided to go with the flow. He's allowing Macintoshes into the business when the requester makes a valid business case. "If they think they can get better productivity on a Mac, so be it. Who am I to stop them?" he says.
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