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A tale of two Facebooks

May 16, 2012 - As the massive IPO nears, Cringely wonders which Facebook will eventually prevail: the groundbreaking social network or the privacy-agnostic data siphon
Cringely, Internet Privacy, Social Networking, Facebook Faceplant
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Advice Line

How to drag your users out of the Stone Age

May 16, 2012 - Too many businesses try to compete using last-century work habits. Here's how IT can help shift their outlook to this-century mastery
IT Strategy, IT Management, Tech Support
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Enterprise Windows

Why you should block Facebook access at the office

May 16, 2012 - While you're at it, get rid of Twitter, CNN, and the rest of the social networking distractions, too
Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter
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InfoWorld Tech Watch

Android boosts open source development for mobile

May 16, 2012 - Mobile open source software projects continue to double annually, with more enterprise applications added to the mix
Mobile Development, Android, Application Development, Mobile Apps, Open Source Software
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Security Adviser

Why you don't need a firewall

May 15, 2012 - Once, firewalls were useful for certain types of attacks. Now they're more trouble than they're worth -- and create a false sense of security into the bargain
Firewall
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Cloud Computing

3 winners, 3 losers in the move to big data

May 15, 2012 - CIOs will do well, traditional vendors will fare poorly, and users will find a mixed bag
Big Data
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Mobile Edge

Behind Intel's trash-talking about Windows on ARM

May 15, 2012 - Intel has a strategy to keep users from defecting to ARM-based post-PC devices, but it may not work
Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Laptops, ARM, Intel
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Virtualization Report

VMware CTO gives glimpse of vSphere future in VMUG videos

May 14, 2012 - Steve Herrod, captured on video speaking to a local VMware user group in Italy, provides interesting insights ahead of VMworld 2012
Server Virtualization, Systems Management, Data Center, Networking, Virtualization, VMware
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Information Overload

Get your storage network right for NFS

May 14, 2012 - Once you've built a solid network foundation, the next challenge is to use it as effectively as possible. With NFS, these best practices can help
Storage, Network Architecture, Network-attached Storage, Network Switch, Storage Area Network, Networking, Virtualization
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The Deep End

Why voting machines still suck

May 14, 2012 - Significant government funds go into snooping on citizens and outrageously sophisticated weaponry. How about a little scratch for the basic instrument of democracy?
Government, E-government, Federal Regulations, Hacking
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Modernizing IT

RightScale CEO: We enable the enterprise cloud

May 14, 2012 - Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, sees new opportunities ahead for IT shops that wish to run mission-critical apps on cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing, IaaS, Amazon Web Services, OpenStack
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Smart User

Who owns what when employees use their own tech

May 11, 2012 - A simple principle is that you own only what you pay for -- and slavery is illegal
BYOD, IT Management
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Open Sources

Open source suites go beyond Microsoft Office

May 11, 2012 - Open source desktop productivity suites are experiencing an injection of enthusiasm, as recent burst of news releases confirms
Open Source Software, Free Tools, Mac Software, Office Software
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Tech's Bottom Line

Beyond 'Jeopardy': How IBM will make billions from Watson

May 10, 2012 - At a time when companies spend billions on patent wars and frivolous acquisitions, IBM makes money the old-fashioned way: through R&D
Big Data, IBM
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Off The Record

A CEO's sins catch up with him

May 09, 2012 - Cronyism, absenteeism, lack of communication, abuse of company funds -- the new CEO gets away with them for too long
IT Jobs, IT Management, IT Training, your IT tales
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Grok

MapReduce

May 09, 2012 - Parallel processing meets big data
Business Intelligence, Big Data, Hadoop, OLAP, MapReduce
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Lab Notes

EMC VNXe 3100 performance check

March 07, 2012 - A simple IOmeter test across six virtual machines, two iSCSI volumes, and five 15,000-rpm SAS disks in RAID5
Data Center, Network-attached Storage, Storage Area Network, Storage Server, Storage, Virtualization
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