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A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications

Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a...

Tags: Data Center, STC Associates, Tier Level, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-10-01

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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...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs

Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?

It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Windows 7 OEM pricing emerges ... some serious discounts available

You forgot to mention ...... That OEM means it must be pre-installed on the machine that was purchased by the end user ... meaning it cannot LEGALLY be purchased for installation by your average Joe ... I own a small IT company in Canada, and I have a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, OEM, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

I recently took part in my first Wi-Fi enabled flight (AA 387 STL â€" SAN) and, in addition to raving about the experience, I found it one of the better ways to make productive use of otherwise lost time. While the speed was reasonable, and better than I'd expected, there...

Tags: Continuity, Mobile, Optimization, Worker, Mobile User, WANs, Advertising & Promotion, Remote Access, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-09-22

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

The Benefits of Virtualizing Mission-Critical Applications

VMware vSphere 4 gives the greater flexibility, performance and control in managing applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, SAP and Oracle. But the network must also be ready to support Tier-1 applications and tight service level requirements. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to maximize performance and...

Tags: Benefit, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-07-29

HP ProLiant BL465c G5 Server Blade 2000 User Bronze Tier Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Performance Brief

There are many configuration details that must be considered when deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Exchange. Exchange architectures can incorporate different server, storage and application availability features in order to support different tiered service level requirements. To better understand these hardware and application deployment options, HP has developed a series...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Solution Brief, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Email of the day: How should I respond?

Email of the day: How should I respond?A brief response..."Before issuing an apoplogy, perhaps you could provide a better solution for keeping YouTube viable while it is loosing 150+ million dollars a year."Simply put, unless the author of the letter is a billionare willing to fund free YouTube usage him/herself,...

Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., video, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offering

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offeringSimplicityNifty! (Weird how this had cross my mind this morning after we finished our migration to SBS 2008 and suddenly there's a Reuters article today.)Really, all I would like to see is something like how Windows Defender is today--remarkably silent,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Morro antiviru, Microsoft Ready, Google Inc., Morro, beta, Symantec Corp., antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Barriers to Entry

Barriers to EntryAlso Risk AssessmentI am not sure if any businesses actually engage in risk assessment for technology or not but there are several fairly large risks in adopting cloud technology.Data Ownership isn't clearly defined.Transmission and storage security has been talked about but I haven't actually seen any solutions.Also when...

Tags: Data centers, Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Storage, barrier, cloud computing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

High Availability and Security for UNIX-Based Trading Application

The client, an entity at the forefront of the energy trading sector, was in need of a solution to improve the resiliency of their homegrown trading software and the associated web portal, all running on a UNIX platform. Blackbriar Technologies' Systems Architects were tasked with designing a solution to provide...

Tags: Security, High Availability, Cisco PIX Firewall, Blackbriar Technologies, Network Security, Data Centers, Portals, UNIX, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-05-20

At long last, the EPA weighs in with Energy Star for servers

After months of work and debate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially released its Energy Star requirements for server technology. The agency claims that equipment bearing the new Energy Star for Servers label will be 30 percent more energy-efficient than alternatives AND that complying with the...

Tags: Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Orasis Mapping Studio 2009 Database Edition 1.0.2.1 (Windows)

Orasis Mapping Studio 2009 Database Edition; a round trip Visual toolset that assists developers building open database access code targeting performance, development time and maintenance. The Studio integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio. It supports .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Frameworks, C# and VB.Net, and major database vendors like SQL Server,...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows, Orasis Software, Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Databases, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-05-15

Do our Operating Systems need Search Failover?

Outages of search providers can create huge amounts of havoc. But can we build functionality into our OSes to mitigate the problems? As I write this, Google has failwhaled. The cause of the problem was initally presumed to be at the AT&T Tier...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine Company, Operating System, Failover, Search Technology, Outage, Search, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-14

AT&T considering cutting prices for iPhone service plans

AT&T considering cutting prices for iPhone service plansGreat news! But what about the unlimited plans?That's great news for entry level folks, but what about the rest of us who pay for unlimited, did they just increase the net premium we pay for having our unlimited accounts by lowering the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., iPhone service plan, iPhone Service, phone

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Connected Precision Accounting 6.1 (Mac)

Connected is a mid-range accounting program with single user and network editions for Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Connected can be shared concurrently by both Mac OS and Windows users on a single data file using either a Mac or Windows server. Connected "Core Accounting" consists of the General Ledger,...

Tags: Accounting, Apple Macintosh, Connected Corp., Connected Core Accounting System, Financial Management, Microsoft Windows, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-04

News to know: Microsoft; Oracle patches; Google; HP; Facebook; Win 7 systems ;

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. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft makes it official: Forefront reaches the cloud Ryan Naraine: Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant Oracle...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Patches, Free Trade, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-16