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Top 12 Green IT Products
Our survey of nearly 100 enterprises reveals the most popular ways to cut energy costs, promote efficiency and embrace `green' practices and policies. 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!

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!

Security Matchup: iPhone vs. Windows Phone 7
All of the new phones are capable of storing huge amounts of sensitive data, surfing internal websites, obtaining corporate email and tons of other activities. All these applications need to be done in a secure manner or else "bad things" might happen to the company. Here is a chart that lists the majority of security functions that corporations need and expect in a smartphone along with the support of each OS vendor. Read More

Hey, you with the open Wi-Fi: You're an idiot
The Googlemobiles sniffed open Wi-Fi systems and everyone's outraged. Idiots. Read More

Vendors closing in on 1G bps using DSL
DSL vendors are using a variety of methods such as bonding several copper lines, creating virtual ones and using advanced noise cancellation to increase broadband over copper to several hundred megabits per second. Read More

.Com deemed the riskiest top-level domain, wrests title from Cameroon
The .com domain is the riskiest in terms of containing code that can steal passwords or take advantage of browser vulnerabilities to distribute malware, according to security vendor McAfee. Read More


WEBCAST: NetApp

Use 50% Less Storage - Guaranteed
Listen to this on-demand Webcast and hear Chris Rima of Tucson Electric Power discuss how his organization managed data growth and improved performance with storage and server virtualization. You'll also hear Brian Garrett from ESG and NetApp experts discuss ways to consolidate your Windows® application data, files, and virtual machines. Learn More

Cyber war, cyber espionage and your network security
A story by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker lays out the competing interests at work to determine future responsibility for securing the nation's critical electronic infrastructure, including power grids and the Internet. Read More

FCC takes stand on surprise cell charges
The Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure that mobile users are aware of how much wireless network usage they consume so they can avoid those unexpected end-of-the month charges that so often rear their ugly heads. Read More

Hackers Use Open Source Too
Hey hackers use open source tools too. Two well known (in their own neck of the woods anyway) jailbreaking tools are going open source.  GreenPoisOn and Redsn0w will both be making their widely respected jailbreaking tools source code available to developers. Read More

Who's Afraid of the Office 2010 Upgrade? 78% of Enterprises
New research shows that the top reason enterprises are waiting on upgrading to Office 2010 is the new Ribbon interface. Application compatibility and licensing concerns also figure prominently. 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!

Can we put faith in Cisco's repatriation banter?
Cisco CEO John Chambers and Oracle President Safra Catz co-authored an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal last week claiming that profits held by multinational corporations overseas could inject $1 trillion into the US economy if the US tax policy is changed. Read More

Cameras, radar, advanced sensors all part of your future car
In theory at least, as cars are outfitted with more advanced electronics,  safer vehicles should be at least one of the main results. Read More

NASA space telescope spots "starquakes"
Scientists today said they have detected and measured what they called starquakes, or pulses of light that will help them better understand the size, age and evolution of stars. Read More

Did Dutch police break the law taking down a botnet?
Dutch police took unprecedented action in taking down a botnet on Monday: They uploaded their own program to infected computers around the world, a move that likely violated computer crime laws. Read More



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