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Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2011
Blazing performance, the Chief Acceleration Officer, hybrid clouds, optimized systems, The iPad Explosion, analytics, and others lead our list of CIO priorities or 2011.
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Twitter Reveals Feds Seek User Data
The Department of Justice wants the account information of users who follow, or have ties to, Wikileaks, including a member of Iceland's parliament.
Wolfe's Den: Talking Enterprise 2.0 With Jive Software CEO Tony Zingale
If you don't embrace a social platform in the next year or two, you'll probably be out of a job, says the chief executive of the company which wants to provide that platform.
Researchers Build 1,000-Core Processor
University of Glasgow scientists say their microprocessor performs tasks 20 times faster than the best desktop computer.
Motorola Ramping For Big Xoom Tablet Sales
Motorola has high expectations for its Xoom Android tablet. The company is preparing to flood the market with as many as 1 million of them by April.
Server Chief Out At Microsoft, Is Steve Ballmer Next?
Less than two weeks into 2011, there are signs that Microsoft learned little from a woeful 2010. Can the CEO survive?
Oracle Financial App Targets SAP Shops
Prebuilt analytic application taps SAP to deliver analyses of general ledger, profitability, payables and receivables.
Treasury Sites Jump To Amazon Cloud
Smartronix has developed a new Treasury.gov site and migrated four other agency sites to Amazon Web Services' EC2.
Commerce Department To Head Web Identity Initiative
The agency will work with government and private industry to revolutionize how identities are used and authenticated online.
VA Racing To Fill 705 IT Positions
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to add a raft of "high priority" technology staff by April 22.
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 Ditch The IT Buffet Line In 2011
By Jonathan Feldman
"All you can eat" buffets are costed out predicated on averages of what most folks can eat. It's always more expensive than a la carte. If all you want is a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, you'd be foolish to shell out $14.95 for the all-you-care-to-shove-down-your-throat buffet. And if family finances were a bit rocky, paying for more than you need might be the furthest thing from your mind. The same holds true with your organization's IT spending: cash-strapped organizations are realizing that buffet-style IT budgeting may not be an idea that should continue.
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Its Not 4G, Its Faux G
By Ed Hansberry
The carriers continue to change the definition of 4G to make their marketing pitch better. Numbers followed by the letter G are becoming as entrenched in the consumer's mind as processor speeds were in the 90's. While processor speeds didn't tell the whole story, they were at least accurate. The same cannot be said for the names used to describe the generation a particular network is. Marketing has won. Truth in advertising has lost.
Virtual WAN Optimization
By George Crump
Returning to our discussion on virtual appliances one of the areas where we are seeing a lot of use of virtual appliance technology is in the WAN optimization market. WAN optimization has been atop the project list whiteboard for many data center managers. WAN connectivity is expensive. By optimizing utilization of the WAN you can either lower your WAN connectivity bill or at least delay the need to upgrade it.
Can A Kindle Be An SMB Tool?
By Lamont Wood
Considering its long battery life, its portability, its legibility, and the fact that it can display PDFs from a PC, it really looks like it ought to have some business use.
Six Keynote Speakers Highlight HDI's 2011 Annual Conference
By Daniel Orley
IT service and technical support pros -- from seasoned directors to frontline analysts -- will discover valuable insights about how formal procedures, processes, and industry tools can improve service and support performance at the annual event headlined by these six dynamic speakers.
NetGear Beefs Up Wireless Router Line
By Paul Korzeniowski
Competition in the wireless access market has intensified as it has matured. To try and maintain its current momentum, NetGear rolled out four devices, with an emphasis on support for higher transmission speeds and a wider variety of connectivity options.
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