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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Private clouds: Not for the faint of heart

Nimbula Director beta shows promise | Symantec wins battle of the security superpowers

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Private clouds: Not for the faint of heart
If you're thinking about operating a private cloud, you'll need management software to help create a virtualized pool of compute resources, provide access to end users, and handle security, resource allocation, tracking and billing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Symantec

E-mail: Today's Problems and How to Deal With Them
As e-mail use balloons, IT faces looming archiving, management and security challenges. In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO, Computerworld and CSO explore how business users and IT alike can stay on top of the e-mail morass. Read now!

REPORT: APC by Schneider Electric

Inside the Energy-Efficient Data Center
The enterprise data centers long been an energy hog, But the situation is improving within many enterprise data centers as data center managers and the industry as a whole come to terms with how to boost IT efficiencies while improving power and cooling methodologies — all while keeping costs in check. Read Now.

Nimbula Director beta shows promise
Nimbula's founders developed the Amazon EC2 public cloud system, and are now working on Nimbula Director, which aims to partition internal cloud resources by authentication, along the lines of how EC2 works. Read More


WEBCAST: Red Hat

5-Step RISC Migration Planning Process
In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. View Now!

Symantec wins battle of the security superpowers
It's no longer enough for antivirus software to scan files on your PC. You need someone looking over your shoulder and telling you whether it's safe to click that link; whether the popup for that software update is legitimate; and whether that download from your favorite social network is actually a tool created by organized criminals for stealing your personal information. You need an all-in-one Internet security suite capable of identifying, blocking, and cleaning up after a wide array of malware. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP TippingPoint

Securing Virtualized Data Centers
Learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework addresses the unique requirements of virtualized data center environments. Learn More

Supercharge Excel With ASAP Utilities
Excel add-in ASAP Utilities piles so many features onto Excel, it can make you dizzy. You can convert text to uppercase, lowercase, or proper case (first word capitalized), merge and import multiple files, and copy a selection to the clipboard as HTML. Jobs that you could already do get grouped logically into one place. For instance, the Vision Control dialog box lets you hide and unhide gridlines, page breaks, tabs, and scroll bars. You can easily reverse the order of selected cells, fill a range with random numbers, and change hyperlinks to hyperlink() formulas. Read More

AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
AMD is trying something new with its Radeon HD 6900 series of graphics cards. Instead of its usual tactic of addressing the higher end of the market with a graphics card containing two of the GPUs powering the Radeon HD 6870 (a chip code-named Barts), it is using a single, larger, more-powerful new GPU. Code-named Cayman, this new GPU doesn't merely take the architecture of the Radeon HD 6800 series and scale it up; rather, it makes significant architectural changes. AMD has redesigned the shader units for improved efficiency, greatly enhanced geometry performance, and employed a whole new power-management system. Read More



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DECEMBER GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win!

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Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2010
Here's a look back at the year's most memorable – for better or worse – celebrity moments in technology.

Top 15 Holiday Deals on Notebooks, Netbooks, and Desktops
Black Friday is gone, Cyber Monday is history, and Cyber Week is over, but the deals are still around--if you know where to look. The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and retailers are offering great computer discounts to fit everyone's budget. Take a look inside to find netbooks for $300, desktops with widescreen monitors for under $600, and 15-inch laptops starting at $400. Check it out.

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