IT is investigating private and hybrid clouds to address concerns around security, control and application suitability, according to two recent surveys.
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August 20, 2013 at 1:12 pm Sapphire Eye from 7signal gathers reams of RF and performance information to help administrators identify WLAN performance problems, but it will cost you
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August 20, 2013 at 7:12 am It’s been headline news this week that smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time. Huzzah!
My first thought was, “They still sell non-smartphones?” My second thought was “Why do we even still call it a ‘phone’?” I mean, a PC is basically an evolution of a calculator, but we don’t get excited about whether or not PCs outsell calculators, and we don’t call PCs “supercalculators.”
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5 ways your smartphone’s ‘smarts’ have become more important than the ‘phone’
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August 20, 2013 at 1:25 am The recent outages of Google and Microsoft’s Outlook.com reinforce concerns many businesses have about relying on cloud services and may cause organizations that have already moved or are considering moving to the cloud to reconsider. When you look at the big picture, though, you can still trust the cloud.
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Businesses shouldn’t let Google and Microsoft outages shake their confidence in the cloud
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August 19, 2013 at 7:27 pm SMART Storage Systems’ ULLtraDIMM product, developed with Diablo Technologies, puts flash storage on the memory channel. It’s a game changer for the storage industry.
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August 19, 2013 at 1:13 pm
New VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger faces challenges as the company approaches VMworld, which is scheduled for later this month in San Francisco and again in Barcelona, Spain, in October. There are four things VMware should do to help itself regain the initiative in the virtualization market.
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August 19, 2013 at 7:21 am Facebook is reportedly looking to get into the mobile payments game. If it does it right, businesses will reap the benefit of monetizing their Facebook presence and be able to simplify the process of turning Facebook followers into revenue.
Rivals should be worried any time an 800-pound gorilla like Facebook enters a market. Facebook is the online destination where users spend the most time each month, and with a billion-ish users it represents a dominating force in whatever market it chooses to compete.
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August 19, 2013 at 1:23 am Several reports indicate that both service providers and enterprises are making the switch to IPv6, negating the need for LISP or tunnel services to help with the transition.
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August 18, 2013 at 1:15 pm A new survey indicates that data centers are fast becoming the domain of service providers as smaller enterprises increasingly outsource their data center operations.
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August 18, 2013 at 7:19 am
IBM’s cloud computing revenues are smaller and less “cloud-intensive” than customers and Wall Street analysts might think. That’s the claim of a former IBM employee who backed up more than a few of his/her critical assessments of the vendor’s cloud prowess with a number of confidential internal documents shared with InformationWeek.
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IBM’s Cloud Business: Ex-Employee Divulges Shortfalls
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August 17, 2013 at 7:13 pm 