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Monitor to Manage
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-11
Cloud computing moves the "do I care" technical conversation to new and different places, but at the end of the day someone still has to care about network and application performance at the physical level.
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Apple In Transition: 10 Needed Steps
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-10-06
Company transitions can be painful. When the transition involves a transition from an iconic genius who was the company founder, captivating spokesman and product visionary, that painful transition can
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Steve Jobs: The American Odyssey
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-10-06
Image via WikipediaIn the years since Apple's founding in 1976 until his death at 56 years old on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs moved from being a player in the technology industry to being THE moving force in technology, business and social creation. Along the way, Jobs led a life that
Apple Raises its Garden Walls
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-10-04
Today's launch of the iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud is a milestone for Apple in two significant ways. First, it was Tim Cook's first time in the spotlight since being named CEO in August, upon the retirement of Apple
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Cloud Identity
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-04
If your employees have a growing problem of managing log on credentials across the cloud-based applications used at your company, you might be interested in the briefing notes I took when meeting with Okta this morning.
The
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Oracle Embraces NoSQL
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-10-04
At its Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference this week, database giant Oracle gave the burgeoning NoSQL database market a shot in the arm, with the announcement of its own NoSQL database product.
During my research for a
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Physical Cloud
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-10-03
Even the most airy cloud is, at the end of the day, made up of very solid steel, copper, and silicon that channel electricity. And monitoring the working condition of the server systems that live in giant data centers is of greater concern for IT managers as virtualization drives up
Facebook: Where Do You Want to Go Today?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-09-27
Facebook's ongoing evolution, the latest phase of which was on display at the social networking giant's F8 conference last week, merits the attention of enterprise IT departments, in part because, as
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On User Interfaces and Innovation
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-09-19
I've spent the last few days kicking the tires on the client version of Windows 8, which set me to thinking about the evolution of user interfaces in general. For years (decades, even) the basic constructs of
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Time for a Mono-based PaaS from SUSE?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-09-13
I recently had the opportunity to catch up with SUSE, where things are now settling down following the Attachmate acquisition of the Linux vendor's parent, Novell, last spring.
Under Attachmate, SUSE and
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The IT Kettle Is Whistling
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-09-13
The water is boiling in datacenter land. In the space of two weeks I've covered the release of VMware vSphere 5.0 last month followed by Salesforece.com's unleashing of the "social enterprise" at Dreamforce and then up to Redmond for a secret squirrel meeting about something I can't talk about until
Google-Zagat Deal Could Change Everything, But Will Be an Uphill Pull
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-09-08
I'm no foodie; I happily prefer chicken-fried steak to Chateaubriand. But I'm excited by Google's purchase of Zagat, not because it's going to give me better dining
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Why the Missing iPhone is No Publicity Stunt
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-09-07
So, is this year's missing iPhone just a publicity stunt, as readers and colleagues have suggested? It certainly could be, but I don't think it is.
First of all, this kind of a PR ploy doesn't
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Apple's Cozy Relationship with Law Enforcement Raises Questions [UPDATED]
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-09-06
I spent Labor Day weekend trying to wrap my brain around the case of the latest missing iPhone prototype. This time, however, it's happening in the part of San Francisco I know and
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Dreamforce, VMworld and Customer Value
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-09-06
Last week, I spoke with Eric Lundquist about the product announcements out of VMware's VMworld 2011 and Saleforce.com's Dreamforce 2011 on the CIO Insight show:
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