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25 new IT companies to watch
The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Xerox

Magic Quadrant for MPS
Read Gartner's views on the true value proposition of MPS, the focus on cost savings, who is using MPS and what they're paying. Then see how Gartner ranks the major vendors to determine your best partner. Read More

WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Storage for Windows Environments
This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More!

4G defined: WiMax and LTE don't qualify
If someone is trying to sell you 4G wireless these days, don't believe them. Read More

Network World's top 12 green IT products
A dozen nitty gritty tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data center efficiency and promote green IT practices. Read More

Google to tighten privacy policies after Wi-Fi fiasco
Under fire for months over its capture of people's Wi-Fi traffic data, Google has announced several steps aimed at preventing similar missteps in the future. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Storage-Purchasing Today: Forget About Capacity
Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now!

Steve Ballmer says HTML 5 is the future
In this interview yesterday at Gartner's IT Symposium, Steve Ballmer was given 30 seconds to answer a range of questions including privacy in the cloud, the next billion market for Microsoft, the coolest product launched in 2010 and HTML vs. Silverlight, among other topics. Read More

The Digital You
What's fascinating is that your digital personality as you perceive it (which assumes that you have actually thought about the topic at all, which most of us haven't) can be very different from how others see it. Read More

Google Android security improves, but trails iPhone and BlackBerry
Android 2.2 improved security, but the iPhone and BlackBerry are still ahead of Google's smartphone OS. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Effectively Address your Biggest IT Challenges
Meet your CAPEX and OPEX cost saving goals with a more efficient data storage strategy. Enterprise Strategy Group lays the groundwork on how to do just that in this whitepaper. Ensure you have the tools in place to keep costs down while better managing data growth. Read More!

Another revealing Slashdot poll: Sherman, set The Wayback Machine
Having long harbored a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with online opinion surveys, it's somewhat surprising to me that I so often enjoy the polls on Slashdot. They just seem to strike a proper balance between the provocative and the irreverent, oftentimes combining the two. Read More

HP Slate 500 vs. MacBook Air: Which is Better for Business?
This week both Apple and HP made new computing platforms available. Both the MacBook Air and the HP Slate had been the subject of months of rumors and speculation, and now they're both here. Read More

Sprint and 4G: A dog with a bone
Sprint is maintaining its relentless WiMAX momentum, making several announcements at 4G World in Chicago this week. Read More

Network Packet Monitoring Matrix Switches
Have you ever wanted to configure more than two TX/RX/Both Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) ports on your switches? Have you ever had to deal with the issues related to optical-bypass switches for inline IPS appliances? Have you ever had to deal with the cabling nightmare that results from using Ethernet taps? Read More



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