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Moving a data center? Avoid these four career-limiting mistakes

Wireless prices lower despite industry consolidation, GAO finds | Chrome jumps into hardware speed-up game

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Moving a data center? Avoid these four career-limiting mistakes
Data center moves can be fraught with career-limiting failures. No IT professional wants to be on the receiving end of memos and discussions describing lost orders, missed deadlines or customer dissatisfaction that occurred because some mission-critical business process was disrupted by a data center move that didn't run smoothly. Read More


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Simple Ways to Get the Most from Your Blade Environment
This technical brief describes the architecture and the implementation of major technologies in the HP Integrity Servers c-Class server blades. The HP Integrity server blades architecture opens a chapter in server scalability by using a common base 2S (two socket) base blade to build four and eight socket systems. Read Now

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IT Guide to Managing Personal Devices in the Enterprise
You can't avoid it any longer: Developing a strategy for managing employees' personal mobile devices. Get this paper and learn how to create a more secure and manageable mobile enterprise. It's yours, compliments of Sybase. Read More

Wireless prices lower despite industry consolidation, GAO finds
Although the wireless industry in the United States has significantly consolidated over the past decade, the Government Accountability Office has found that prices have steadily declined over the same period. Read More

Chrome jumps into hardware speed-up game
Google plans to follow the lead of Microsoft and Mozilla by offloading some browser chores to the graphics processor to speed up Chrome. Read More


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Applications: 6 Articles on the Latest Thinking
This eGuide addresses application performance management efforts, especially those supporting next-generation enterprise initiatives and better coordination between IT and users. These articles explore the latest thinking on application performance management tools and best practices. Read now

Is it safe to use a SIP trunk as your outbound dialing option?
If you plug your Communication Manager (or Communication Manager Express) directly to the internet or to your service provider's 'private' SIP cloud directly, you are at risk. But if you take the minimum security measures that I'll specify below, you should be fine. Read More

Virginia's IT outage continues, 7 agencies still affected
Public agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to experience intranet service outages as the result of a memory card failure in a storage area network managed by outsourcer Northrop Grumman. Read More


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News podcast: Network World 360
Workers who can't browse certain Web sites or access particular networks at the office are voicing their complaints, senior IT leaders say. (4:15) Read More

EMC targets FISMA compliance in cloud networks
EMC is developing technology to track and verify the location of virtual machines in cloud networks, potentially solving one of the key sticking points preventing customers from using the cloud. Read More

Error Reporting Oops: Microsoft, Meter Maids and Malicious Code
Do you think hackers are dumb enough to send malicious code directly to Microsoft via Windows error reporting? Do you think Microsoft is foolish enough to flaunt scantily dressed women at a tech convention while celebrating women in IT? The answers are apparently yes to both, at least according to what happened Down Under last week. Read More

iPod Nano poised to undergo radical new design
Most of the attention surrounding Apple's upcoming media event has focused on a new iPod Touch with a front facing camera and, to a lesser extent, the potential for a revamped Apple TV. But now comes word, via leaked casings, that the iPod Nano is poised to undergo a radical new redesign.  Read More



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