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The iPhone 4: Just take it back
Stop whining about your faulty iPhone 4. If you're unhappy, take it back and get a refund. How hard is that? Read More


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Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA
Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now

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HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization
This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now.

Is Windows Phone 7 really a "disaster?"
It was obviously a pretty bad 30-40 minutes for InfoWorld's Galen Gruman. He was at the recent Mobile Beat conference and sat through an "in-depth" demonstration of Microsoft's redesigned mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. Read More

Paper to readers: Comments now cost 99 cents and your name
Anxious to lift an outright ban on comments, The Attleboro (Mass.) Sun-Chronicle has begun requiring two things of online readers who want to leave their thoughts on stories: 99 cents and their real names. The newspaper should expect much criticism from various quarters, but it's a fascinating experiment. Read More

iPhone 4: Ranting about almost a problem?
Apple's iPhone 4 antenna problems were discussed unendingly, but not really analyzed thoroughly. Read More


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Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure
A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now

Cisco intern's rap videos are making Cisco seem hip again
Here's a great story on Social Blade today on, of all things, Cisco. A guy named Greg Justice has become a YouTube star with his "I am the World's Most Interesting Intern" series of videos. Read More

San Francisco's Handset Radiation Ordinance: The Fallout Begins
San Francisco recently became the first city, that I know of, anyway, to require that cellular handset retailers post the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) value for handsets sold within the City. SAR is a highly-technical and (IMHO) likely inaccurate method of indicating just how much energy a handset is putting out, and is measured in Watts/Kilogram averaged over one gram of tissue. Read More

Why You Should Stick With Cisco on Cisco
At some point in nearly any customer discussion, the topic of end-to-end architecture rises to the surface. Cisco has long touted the idea that has become known as Cisco on Cisco. Read More


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Implementing Tiered Storage:
IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now

There IS a way to stamp out superstition.
In my last post I talked about the magic threshold that gets thrown up whenever someone doesn't know how or doesn't want to troubleshoot an issue. And at the end I suggested that knowledge is really the best way to avoid that type of irrational thinking. Read More

The Open source legal maze: an open trap?
Five minutes after first looking at open source, I found myself on the phone with a lawyer. When people talk about open source, they use words like "free" and all these other wonderful terms; when I spoke to the lawyer, he described the idiosyncrasies of all these open source legal licenses. Read More

IE8 and Chrome Are Killing Firefox
I used to love Firefox. I'm an old Linux user that ran Mozilla on the Red Hat Linux desktop that kept me efficient while I was working for a dot-com before the bust. Back then I had to manage a Windows and Linux network with some AIX thrown in, so being able to run Linux was a life-saver, and having a decent browser like Mozilla didn't hurt. Read More



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Say what?
Earlier this month, Microsoft's chief operating officer made a statement that sent everyone's jaws a-dropping. "It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm OK with that," he said during a keynote speech at the company's annual partner conference. It got me thinking about quotes that have and will go down in history from the industry's most famous executives. Can you guess who made the following statements?

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