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  • Intel launches $125 'affordable' SSD

    But industry analysts said the trend of offering lower-capacity SSDs for around $100 may spur adoption of nonvolatile memory in what has been a somewhat flat market over the past year.I think consumers will consider this product.
  • Cisco, Microsoft certification boosts job and pay prospects

    For instance, Dice.com has 1,000 jobs listing a MSCE as a requirement.Sought by systems engineers, technical support engineers, systems analysts, network analysts and technical consultants, the MCSE is for professionals who spend their time…
  • Apple iPad to hurt e-reader market, says survey

    Both the 4% who said they were "very likely" to buy Apple's new device and the 9% who confirmed that they were "somewhat likely" to purchase an iPad were larger numbers than said the same in a similar survey in April 2007 prior to the launch of…
  • AMD battles Intel with 12-core server chip

    Intel will launch the chips under the Xeon product line.AMD's chip will contain the highest number of cores in an x86 server processor, analysts said. The contest may be a way for AMD to showcase the number of cores in comparison to Intel chips to…
  • Taiwan earthquake may send LCD prices soaring

    A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Taiwan may affect the global technology industry by sending prices of LCD panels and certain chips higher, analysts say. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Taiwan may affect the global…
  • Microsoft Office 2010 free to Office 2007 buyers

    Purchases of either Office Small Business 2007 or Office Professional 2007 will be eligible for a free copy of Office Professional 2010.Although Klein did not specify a launch date for the offer, it will come this month, and likely earlier rather…

Latest Features

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    Cut pricesIf there's one major complaint customers and analysts have about VMware, it's that prices are too high.Are you going to spend five times the cost [of Microsoft]? So far, VMware has insisted Microsoft and Citrix aren't used by enough…
  • Palm ponders survival

    Palm revenues for the year will be "well below" a previous forecast, Palm said, because adoption of its Palm webOS smartphones, the Palm Pre and the Pixi, first announced in early 2009, is taking longer than anticipated.The news caused Palm's…
  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    Direct competition of Google's magnitude has been a rarity in Steve Ballmer's 10-year tenure as CEO, and some analysts fear Microsoft's competitive spirit has irreparably atrophied.Insiders warn that Microsoft's ability to innovate is hampered by…
  • Apple App store's dirty little secret

    That's the dirty little secret of Apple's App Store.The awful truth is that app developers game customer reviews and even Top 25 lists to promote their apps and slam competitors, according to news reports, analysts and even developers themselves.
  • How the Cisco-HP split will benefit customers

    Cisco Systems and HP probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said.
  • Flash storage fixes data centre bottlenecks, for a price

    Although the total share of the enterprise market that uses enterprise SSDs will remain small, the technology will play an important role in these critical applications, analysts predict.SSDs in the data centreSSDs are making their way into data…
 

How-Tos

  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    The entrepreneurs and analysts we interviewed recommend several.Bit.ly is a URL shortener. Can you tell which of the following tweets is from a small but rapidly growing company? One more glass of wine and I will b buying pop tarts from that damn…
  • What is cloud computing, and can it be trusted?

    While SaaS vendors originally did not use the word cloud to describe their offerings, analysts now consider SaaS to be one of several subsets of the cloud computing market.What types of services are available via the cloud computing model?
  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    All this, in turn, could ironically make things even more congested.In the end, most experts -- including analysts Skorupa and Staten -- insist that 100% uptime for every site on the public Internet is not necessarily the goal, and that site…
  • How to avoid redundancy

    We eliminated 100 positions in technology last year, but we are still aggressively hiring business analysts," says Perry Rotella, president of Society for Information Management (SIM) New York and CIO and senior vice president at Moody's.
  • Case Study: The sweet smell of WAN acceleration

    You could use it from your hotel room," he said.Coty's experience with acceleration is not unusual, analysts said. Global perfumer Coty used WAN appliances to improve its download speeds and remove the need for caching servers.
  • Which laptop extras should you go for?

    This design improves performance and provides fewer points of entry for unauthorised access.Some analysts expect drive makers other than Seagate and Hitachi to get into the business, and hardware drive encryption will likely become a dominant…

Reviews

  • Samsung C6625 Valencia

    Forget what the analysts say about markets and growth, there are far too many smartphones chasing far too few committed customers these days. What has Samsung thrown away to make its cheap smartphone competitive in the SMB market?
  • Apple Nehalem Xserve review

    Apple's own requirements already reflect what analysts predict for the cloud.Ideal cloud servers will strike a balance between low power utilisation and high reserve performance that's nearly impossible to achieve.
  • Windows 7 RC1 review

    You might have an operating system that you liked - and that's what Microsoft appears to be striving for with Windows 7.We checked out an early beta of Windows 7, and though at this point many features are either missing or works in progress, the…
  • Talend Open Studio 3.0

    The Business Modeler provides a palette of components that allow non-technical analysts to build a view of the system and its workflows, without ever touching a drop of Java. The data integration market is one that has been left to a handful of…
  • RedSeal Security Risk Manager

    Recently, I tested RedSeal Systems' Security Risk Manager (SRM), which gives analysts and IT managers visual access to the risk state of their information technology.Originally appliance-based, SRM has become software-only.
  • Apple Safari for Windows beta

    Security has been an issue, too, as several security analysts found flaws in Apple's code. Apple's Safari has finally made the trek across to the PC. But is it good enough to hunt down - and why did Apple decide to launch into Microsoft's home turf?

White Papers

  • Virtualisation sanity check

    Industry analysts, equally enthusiastic, have named virtualization as the No.strategic technology for 2009.Virtualisation has left IT decision makers with the daunting task of managing a burgeoning number of virtual machines (VMs) that are…
  • Building and managing a quality centre of excellence

    This is the reason IT departments of most enterprises invest heavily in products, people, and processes that can maximize application quality.One leading solution that has been embraced by key customers and analysts alike is the Quality Center of…
  • Accelerator Testing and Documentation Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite

    It is intended to be read by executives and project managers, as well as Oracle subject matter experts, business analysts, end users and quality assurance (QA) personnel. This white paper introduces and explains the Accelerator Testing and…
  • Creating Performance-based SAN SLAs

    And as many enterprises have discovered the hard way, application performance must be up to snuff or they risk decreased employee productivity, low customer satisfaction, and lost business opportunities.Consequently, IT managers are looking for…
  • Best Practice with Structured Requirements

    Best Practice with Structured Requirements Compuware Corporation Analysts report that poor requirements management accounts for as much as 71 percent of software project failures whitepaper A structured approach to requirements capture and…
  • BEYOND SEARCH

    Unfortunately, vendors tend to cloud the picture by placing too much emphasis on bells and whistles, despite the fact that analysts routinely agree that 80 percent of search comes down to simply getting the fundamentals right first.
 
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