Recent Articles
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Disk Storage Sales Strengthen
No matter how you slice the storage market — either Gartner’s external controller-based disk or IDC’s enterprise storage — the third quarter saw another year-over-year decline in sales. But both research companies report that sales declined less than previous quarters, and actually increased from Q209. They’re also optimistic that the industry has probably bottomed out…
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Making Video Conferencing Easy
What do customers crave today? Even if they won’t say it, they want simplicity. They want their technology to work, without having to think about it. That’s why Apple and Google are so successful. They offer a clean interface and simple results. No digging required. And that’s why video conferencing is still not ready for…
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Desktop Virtualization: Ready for Prime Time or Still Hype?
Is desktop virtualization a promising new technology, or is it still a bunch of hype? Well, if you’re a CIO, chances are you don’t believe that desktop virtualization technology can deliver on everything it promises yet. That’s according to a new survey commissioned by Fujitsu that shows that 49 percent of private-sector CIOs say desktop…
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Will Tandberg Eat Its Own Telepresence Dogfood?
Tandberg’s director of telepresence, Jerry Monroe, says that the video conferencing giant created its new T3 Custom Edition to bring the benefits of immersive HD video conferencing to applications that go beyond board room-type meetings. Tandberg announced the Custom Edition yesterday, saying that it provided channel partners with greater flexibility as well as opportunities to…
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Microsoft Updates Endpoint Forefront Products
Microsoft updated two endpoint security products in the Forefront family this week, as it continues to position security as not only a means of protecting assets but of allowing companies and their employees to get their jobs done. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 acts as a Web security gateway and is an upgrade from a…
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Hardware’s Not Glamorous
I just completed another hardware spec. Like every hardware spec I’ve done in the past six years, I spent a while tweaking CPU, memory and disk. I could spend an entire day playing with the various RAID configurations for performance versus cost. If I add lots of spindles to a system, I increase performance, but…