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- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
- Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.
- White papers 2009-11-20
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- HomeGed Enterprise 2009.3.1 (Windows)
- Electronic Document Management software EDM for businesses and individuals. Classify, organize, consult, scan and share more than 100 000 digital and paper documents between computers on your network. Designed to make document management as simple as possible and accessible to as many, HomeGed Enterprise allows you to: share your documents...
- Software downloads 2009-11-19
- Power Solutions Article: Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs
- Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI iSCSI storage area network SAN arrays can provide a simplified, scalable, cost effective way to gain control over enterprise data and create a platform to support future...
- White papers 2009-11-19
- Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid
- The problem for competitors is that Google could throw a billion or more atmobile OS market including Android and ChromeOS. They just want a flood of cheap, very functional, very powerful mobile internet devices. They do not need ANY profits on the OS itself.Hardware manufactures like Palm, Blackberry, and Nokia...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- News items 2009-11-17
- News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0
- News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- HomeGed Enterprise 2009.3.1 (Mac)
- Electronic Document Management software EDM for businesses and individuals. Classify, organize, consult, scan and share more than 100 000 digital and paper documents between computers on your network. Designed to make document management as simple as possible and accessible to as many, HomeGed Enterprise allows...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations
- In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service
- Cisco just announced a new hosted email offer, WebEx Mail. at its collaboration summit. This isn't the first time that Cisco has entered the email business, but it does come at time when Cisco is moving to challenge Microsoft and IBM in broader collaboration space. Similar to...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source
- Using Only COCOMO Seriously FlawedIt assumes that every component would be developed from scratch for every project instead of being commercially licensed or re-used from another in-house project.A MySQL license purchased from Sun is much less expensive than recreating MySQL.Wow that's such total crap I'd be amazed if anyone believed...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- NetCDP Online Backup 3.0.60 (Windows)
- NetCDP Online Backup provides an extremely easy to use continuous online data backup application for Windows users. NetCDP automatically and continuously back up your selected folders to Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Service or a NAS server and virtualizes your backed up data as a local folder. It has the ability...
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?
- CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Winmail Mail Server 4.7 build 0217 (Windows)
- Winmail Server is an enterprise class mail server software system offering a robust feature set, including extensive security measures. Winmail Server supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Webmail, LDAP, multiple domains, SMTP authentication, spam protection, anti-virus protection, SSL/TLS security, Network Storage, remote access, Web-based administration, and a wide array of standard email...
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Power Solutions Article:Â Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
- An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI iSCSI storage area network SAN arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization offered by the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ virtualization platform—offering the storage foundation for a comprehensive...
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education
- Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...
- White papers 2009-11-03
- Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
- Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- JumpBox for the PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System 1.1.5 (Mac)
- PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that's been under active development for over 15 years. An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control MVCC, point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions savepoints, online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
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