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Why I Want a Provisional Follow
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-11-07
As it stands today, unfriending or unfollowing someone on one of my social networks seems akin to breaking up with a high school sweetheart. Therefore, I'd like enterprise social networks to enable what I'll call "provisional following." In other words, I'd like to be able to specify the how long
Charge IT Back
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-11-01
The magic of information technology comes with a price tag. If your IT organization has taken a couple of steps down the virtualization road, you're likely coming to that part of the trail where you need to know "how much is all this costing?" and "is the cost being shared
Whose Google Plus Is It, Anyway?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-10-31
Late last month, Google's young social networking effort, Google Plus, took another step toward maturity when the search giant added support for Google Apps domains on the service. For its first few months of
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Sony, Ericsson End Charade
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-10-31
Sony Ericsson is no more. After just over a decade, the joint venture between the Swedish telecom giant and the Japanese consumer electronics titan has hit the end of the road, with Sony's announcement last week that
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PC plays Possum While Thin Clients Spit and Hiss
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-25
I'm wrapping up a look at thin client computing and the one thing that's clear is that "thick" client PCs are doing pretty well by just playing possum.
The sheer technology momentum behind the desktop PC means that increasing processor power and graphics capabilities along with dirt cheap storage go a
Why Siri Matters
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-10-24
Although voice recognition for personal computers has been available in some form for almost 20 years, and it's been available in limited fashion for mobile devices for a while, the implementation of Siri in iOS 5 has been a
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Nothing Like a Temblor
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-20
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley, Calif. shook the Bay Area 3 p.m.Regardless of where your data lives, the "big one"--in any number of forms, is coming. Contingency planning will make all the difference in the world.
For example, few things focus the mind more than an earthquake. Not
Lundquist's Analysis of Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2012
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-10-20
Each year, Gartner at its annual Symposium/ITxpo produces a top 10 strategic technology trends list. Some years, the technologies don't seem all that strategic (taxonomies in 2005) and some take a lot longer to develop (RFID tags in 2005 also). This year at its 2012 event, I thought Gartner hit
VMware Moves to Manage More
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-18
VMware is marching down the management path by integrating previously separate tools and introducing new suites.
Released today, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vFabric Application Management Suite and IT
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In the Lab: ConVirt Enterprise Cloud
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-10-18
This week in the lab we're testing the latest virtualization and cloud management offerings from Convirture, ConVirt Enterprise 3.0 and ConVirt Enterprise Cloud. Last year, I reviewed version 2.0 of
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Learning to Love the Cloud
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-10-18
I'm grudgingly beginning to trust the cloud for my own use. It's not so much a matter of it maturing as it is a triumph of convenience. Apple's Photo Stream service, a part of iCloud, is proving to be useful enough
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Ubuntu Unity, Take Two
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-10-18
Last week, the latest version of Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system from Canonical, hit FTP mirrors everywhere. The new release, called version 11.10 (or, for the more dreamily-minded, Oneiric Ocelot),
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Gartner IT Forecast for $2.7 Trillion in 2012
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-10-17
Here are some caveats I advise when looking at spending forecasts.
1. Use the numbers as a guide, not as the literal truth.
2. Stuff changes
3. Technology can change everything.
Okay, with
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Gartner's IT Alarm Clock Rings
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-10-17
Gartner rang the alarm bell today at the organization's annual Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando. While it is a long standing tradition for consulting organizations to detail a crisis to which they have the answer at their user events, the Gartner analysts were particularly strident in their IT and CIO wake up
Apple's Big Day Mostly a Success
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-10-13
Like many of you, I have spent the better part of the last two days slaving over hot downloads. That's because Apple chose to release the latest updates to iTunes, Mac OS X Lion, iOS, the iWork for iOS
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