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  • Windows 8: Assessing IT risks of a consumer-driven wave

    There isn't a great deal of demand for Windows 8 at the moment, but then, this early in the cycle, new versions of Windows rarely garner much enthusiasm.

    Written by Rob Enderle • 10 Feb. 12 04:23

  • Demand growing for application performance management tools, experts say

    The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately.

    Written by Colin Neagle • 09 Feb. 12 22:33

  • Q&A: Copyright Agency CIO, Jacob Dudzinski

    Jacob Dudzinski has been CIO of the Copyright Agency in Sydney for four years. Over the past two years, he has been responsible for a business process and systems improvement program.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 09 Feb. 12 09:36

  • How to evaluate enterprise search options

    Google and other Internet search engine virtually never fail to deliver relevant results nearly instantly. That creates a problem for IT in terms of setting employee expectations around the search capabilities they use at work.

    Written by James A. Martin • 09 Feb. 12 08:09

  • CSC names Mike Lawrie CEO, ending four-month search

    CSC ended four months of speculation about the identity of its next CEO late Tuesday, announcing that Mike Lawrie, currently CEO of British IT service company Misys, will become CEO of CSC by the end of March. He has already taken a seat on CSC's board.

    Written by Peter Sayer • 08 Feb. 12 23:28

  • Yahoo! chairman, three directors step down

    Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock is stepping down from the board of the struggling internet company along with three other directors.

    Written by AAP • 08 Feb. 12 13:02

  • VMware makes it easier to wholesale Clouds

    VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to other providers.

    Written by Tim Greene • 08 Feb. 12 07:33

  • Centrex: It's alive (for now)!

    Centrex is a lot like the talking plague victim from Monty Python's "Holy Grail": It's not quite dead yet.

    Written by Brad Reed • 08 Feb. 12 04:56

  • SAP unveils HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs

    SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 08 Feb. 12 03:47

  • New Juniper routers converge the access net

    Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 08 Feb. 12 03:26

  • Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud

    Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 07 Feb. 12 22:19

  • Think Tank: An elevator pitch for your project

    When you are a project owner, manager or a sponsor you are often asked what the project is about. It is important because bosses, employees, customers, and partners all need to ‘buy-in’ and become excited about your idea. They will form an initial impression in three minutes or less. This first impression is the lens through which everything else is viewed.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 07 Feb. 12 12:02

  • EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

    EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 07 Feb. 12 11:38

  • Researchers layer an electronic junction into optical fiber

    Pennsylvania State University researchers have devised a technique for embedding an electronic junction directly into optical fiber, which potentially paves the way for more streamlined optical components.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 07 Feb. 12 05:41

  • Voice and video calls via Wi-Fi from 30,000 feet?

    Federal regulations forbid making calls from cell phones while aboard U.S. commercial planes in-flight, but Wi-Fi services could eventually permit voice and video calls over the Internet for a fee.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 07 Feb. 12 03:38

  • Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code

    To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason.

    Written by Peter Wayner • 07 Feb. 12 02:18

  • Wi-Fi in flight has yet to soar

    Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on US airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7 per centof the flying public.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin • 06 Feb. 12 22:14

  • Nicira debuts with its SDN baby

    One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 06 Feb. 12 16:28

  • Cloudyn monitors and optimizes AWS usage

    Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 06 Feb. 12 16:06

  • Continuous delivery — the next step in agile management

    Continuous delivery is a fairly new concept in agile management. It is designed to speed up the project delivery process so that businesses can stay ahead of the competition.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett • 06 Feb. 12 10:53
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