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Can IT strengthen the economy?

At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts that as the economy turns, many company heads will be looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He forsees that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined we...

Tags: Information Technology, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy

Videos 2008-10-15

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Will the GPU become the new CPU?

No mention of OpenCL?Oh well...Not right now, but will come soon.Not right now, but maybe will come soon.The current generation of GPUs are fantastically powerful, BUT:-Current GPUs use a technology called "stream processing," which essentially pre-loads the instructions into the processors and starts streaming data.This is unlike CPUs, where both...

Tags: Processors, GPU, CPU, NVidia Corp., OpenCL, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Five Helpful Green Printing Tips

Taking the Green Route to Printing EfficiencyIt is, of course, important that organisations choose the most environmentally efficient route for their commercial printing. Dependent on the size of the job, there are always occasions when it makes sense to outsource printing. If a company needs 1,000 sets of a 30-page...

Tags: Document management, printing

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

HAHA! Way to go Microsoft! They basically just told Google to suck it! The best part is they were right the whole time. Yet people blindly defended Google. It would seem Google has more software issues than anyone else.RE: Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome FrameI'm not...

Tags: Web browsers, security, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., attack surface, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification

Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Performance Monitoring, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 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...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., SAN, Dell EqualLogic, CommVault Systems Inc., Power Solutions, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-11-19

KnowledgeTree Document Management System 3.7.0.1RC (Windows)

KnowledgeTree is Document Management Made Simple: Easily Manage Your Company's Document Creation and Editing, Versioning and Sharing, all from a powerful Web interface and Microsoft Office and Windows Explorer tools. With no vendor lock-in and with source code readily available, KnowledgeTree provides a more flexible, cost-effective alternative to proprietary applications....

Tags: KnowledgeTree, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-19

NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership

I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...

Tags: Virtualization, Partnership, Thin Client, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, NComputing, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Liquid Comma: Design Can Be Your Next Asset to Manage: E-mail Marketing Techniques

In an unpredictable economy, it is becoming increasingly necessary to refocus marketing efforts to be more cost-effective, while still achieving measurable results in even shorter time frames. With these realities in mind, it has created this series of paper to offer insights into a spectrum of options as part of...

Tags: Asset, Email Marketing, E-mail, Liquid Comma Design, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-11-18

Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability

Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the IT infrastructure required to support them, in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in...

Tags: Recovery Management Corp., Operating System, CA XOSoft, High Availability, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-17

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure

The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....

Tags: Recovery Management Corp., CA XOSoft, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-17

Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this level of flexibility, scalability, and high availability can be expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain, especially for small and midsize businesses. No matter what...

Tags: CA XOSoft, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization

White papers 2009-11-17

Altova UModel Professional Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova UModel Professional Edition is the simple, cost-effective way to draw on UML. Use UModel to create and interpret software designs with the power of UML 2.2. Design application models and generate Java, C#, or Visual Basic .NET code. Reverse engineer existing programs into clear, accurate UML diagrams to quickly...

Tags: Altova, Microsoft Windows, Altova UModel Professional Edition, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Altova MapForce Professional Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova MapForce 2010 Professional Edition is a graphical data mapping tool for transforming between XML, database, and flat file formats. This award-winning visual data mapper converts data instantly or autogenerates royalty-free application code for execution of recurrent conversions. Simply open sources and targets, drop in data processing functions from the...

Tags: Altova, Microsoft SQL Server, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Altova MapForce, Altova MapForce 2010 Professional Edition, MapForce Professional Edition, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century?

Enterprise 2.0 ROIDion - An extremely interesting article. As a vendor of social software, we're often exposed to an intriguing mix of the trends that you've outlined above. In particular, we've noticed that those common internal advocates you mentioned (e.g. corporate communications, knowledge management) are already sold on the benefits...

Tags: Sales force management, Enterprise 2.0, E 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Click to Convert 6.5 (Windows)

Click to Convert provides an easy and cost-effective way for you to create PDF and HTML files from virtually any document. Click to Convert allows businesses or users to easily create high-quality screen-/Web-optimized PDF or HTML by dragging and dropping groups of files, by printing any file to Click to...

Tags: HTML, Adobe PDF, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, PDF Compression

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Virtual Private Servers VPS are increasingly viewed as a simple and cost-effective alternative to purchasing, managing, and supporting dedicated server hardware and software resources for a broad range of applications and services. Learn about the features and benefits of VPS as well as the most important issues for IT...

Tags: Verio Inc., Virtual Private Servers, Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

White papers 2009-11-13