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Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks

Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's ?core competencies?, with the aim of creating a networking operating system that is more intelligent and contextualised.
Amazon Web Services customers making security mistakes, claims survey

Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud computing services, due to its customers either ignoring or forgetting published security tips.
Data centres still lagging behind in IT efficiency

Dynamic power variation is a new phenomenon that is severely affecting the efficiency of data centres, according to APC.
Gartner: SaaS adoption on the rise

More than 95 percent of organisations expect to maintain or grow their use of software as a service (SaaS), said Gartner.
Microsoft boffin wins Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer.
Novell to offer software appliance toolkit

The Novell Suse Appliance Toolkit enables enterprises and ISVs to package apps with an OS and database for a single VM image
Palm shows cloud application development

Palm will introduce a web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
ICANN to allow non-Latin characters in domain names

ICANN is set to allow non-latin characters in domain names
Citrix takes on VMware in virtual PC drive

Citrix is preparing a major desktop virtualisation push to help speed enterprise adoption - and perhaps take market share from VMware.
Quarter of IT bosses to introduce private clouds this year

More than a quarter of IT executives that use high-performance computing (HPC) plan to introduce private clouds this year, with cost reduction and application workload demand acting as the main reason for adopting the cloud.

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The pros and cons of using virtual desktop infrastructure

Many organisations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their desktop PCs, either because migration typically requires costly hardware upgrades, time-consuming transfers of settings, and user retraining, or because there?s simply no compelling reason to move users to a new OS and the new application software that goes along with it. In some cases, both justifications apply.
Why you should be using Linux Mint 12

For any new release of a popular Linux distribution, there are typically numerous fans eagerly awaiting the software's final debut. For Linux Mint 12, however, that anticipation may well have broken all previous records, so anxious have Linux fans been to see the new release's answer to the controversial desktop environments increasingly appearing in other operating systems.
China challenges US for supercomputing dominance

China and other nations are beginning to challenge US supercomputing leadership, something that has implications for every aspect of US leadership in science and product development, say experts.
Will the cloud take your IT job?

As software becomes more complex, and demands the scalability of the cloud, IT's auto mechanic of today, the sysadmin, will disappear. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.
Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

Windows 7 is a worthy rival, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the better operating system by a whisker for discriminating professionals
Oracle races onto server virtualisation highway; are speed traps ahead?

Oracle goes it alone with a virtualisation system as analysts cast doubt as to whether the database company can make the move stick.
Sun tape library market share loss report wrong

Sun did NOT lose tape automation market share in 2006. IDC data directly counters Freeman Reports data.
Big management software gets poor grades in Gartner survey

IT managers say they're tiring of the big four vendors, looking to others for ease-of-use and low-cost options.
Is it time to kill off Cisco's fat APs?

If you are using Cisco's legacy Wi-Fi, watch out. Support is draining away, and the new features are coming to the thin AP world.
Virtual realities: All the world on a Mac

Time was, Macs lived in their own world and PCs lived in theirs, and that was that. But now, pressure will be building fast for virtualisation solutions to support running multiple copies of OS X on Macs.

How-tos

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Case Study: The virtual desktop is here (part one)

Case Study: UK's spying-on-drivers system uses Dell and EMC storage

Case Study: Fault tolerant servers keep phone users' mobile topped up

Case Study: Insurance adjusters use pen-based GUI and wireless

Case Study: Industry Focus: Wireless in manufacturing

Case Study: Wireless monitors entergise a power company

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Featured White Papers

SugarCRM: Vendor analysis

SugarCRM has done impressively well since its launch in early 2004. It stands at the confluence of four high-growth IT market segments: small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), customer relationship management (CRM), software as a service (SaaS) and open source software (OSS).
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Computer retailer upgrades its image, reduces costs with Lexmark laser technology

PC Club?s pioneering business model, building computers to order for its customers, almost guarantees that no two systems are identically configured. For that reason, a simple sales receipt just won?t do. For each system it builds, PC Club prints a multipage sales form and invoice detailing the computer?s exact configuration, the hardware components it contains and all of the systems and application software installed.
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Stratus integrated service combines the ftServer series fault-tolerant hardware and software availability features with a 24 x 7 global service infrastructure proven to excel at mission-critical support. Twenty five years after the introduction of its first fault-tolerant server for the continuous availability market, this integrated approach to service remains unique to Stratus.
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HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Advanced Backup to Disk integration with Virtual Tape Libraries white paper

This white paper provides a better understanding of the integration of HP OpenView Storage Data Protector with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the Storage Data Protector software.
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Thinking about Software as a Service (SaaS)

This paper highlights the application development shifts that vendors must go through to accommodate SaaS; and provides a detailed analysis of how the Servoy platform has become the number one choice for vendors wishing to develop and deliver SaaS applications.
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Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition review

Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...

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Facebook is a lot of fun...until you realize that much of the information posted there could be found by someone you might not want to see it. Like your boss, or potential boss. Your mother, or your potential mother-in-law. Ever wonder how your Facebook page might make you look to someone else? NetworkClean can show you: This free service scans and monitors your Facebook account, alerting you to any problems lurking there. read more...

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