Apple's iPad: Can it rise to enterprise IT demands?

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	Apple's iPad: Can it rise to enterprise IT demands? After 90 minutes of Apple iPad superlatives, demonstrations, and slick videos, which didn't quite mask a distinct sense of disappointment among his listeners on the Web, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ended his unveiling with the billion-dollar question: "Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of products?" Enterprise IT departments are trying to figure out how to answer him. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 4 Key Principles of Storage Virtualization Applying the concept of virtual resource pools to storage can transform the virtualized storage infrastructure. Read this ESG report to learn best practices on; storage virtualization, application integration, capacity and power optimization, and storage & server convergence. Read Now! In this Issue Video: Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers Super Bowl Shuffle Reunion? Asustek adds scent to style in latest netbook launch WHITE PAPER: NetApp Inefficiencies Behind Exchange, SQL Server, More Discover four current Microsoft application infrastructure challenges and why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now. Learn more! Video: Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad At a packed news conference in San Francisco on Wednesday Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, a tablet computer that attempts to bring the Web, e-mail, entertainment and games together in a single, portable device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Case Study: Six Billion Slurpees and Counting Managing remote users was a help desk nightmare for convenience storage giant, 7-Eleven. Read how 2800 new laptops were deployed in 30 days reducing help desk calls by 67%, decreasing management costs by 81% and increasing productivity by 30%. You'll even get the latest tally on Slurpees sold! Learn More How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers Happy birthday to the Rubik's Cube, which was launched in 1980 (invented in 1974, but licensed by Ideal in 1980) and began a craze of goofy kids like yours truly (I was 11 or 12 at the time) trying to impress people with their cube-solving skills. For most people, "solving" the cube meant mixing up the cube and then peeling the stickers off and re-attaching them to claim a victory. Not so for me. Read More WHITE PAPER: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. Read More Super Bowl Shuffle Reunion? I'm not sure anyone really wanted to see this, but Boost Mobile has decided to hold a "Super Bowl Shuffle" reunion with some members of the 1985 Chicago Bears, which of course crushed the New England Patriots in the 1986 Super Bowl (which would make this the 24th anniversary, not 25th). Read More Asustek adds scent to style in latest netbook launch The stylish Eee PC 1008P goes on sale in Taipei for NT$18988 (US$600). Read More
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