12 of the slickest designs in enterprise tech gear available today

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	12 of the slickest designs in enterprise tech gear available today Consumer devices tend to get all the praise for their designs, but there's plenty of cool equipment to be found in the enterprise market. When hardware vendors tag-team with renowned industrial designers, the results can be impressive. Here are some of our favorites. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ServiceNow Modern Software for the CIO Watch this video and see how CIOs benefit from a single system of record for all IT processes. ServiceNow develops, implements and supports a suite of on-demand IT service management solutions offered as a service via the Internet (Software as a Service/SaaS). Click to continue In this Issue Nader lambastes Cisco, Chambers for lagging stock Microsoft's Office 365 launch puts Google on defensive Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos Tilgin launches home gateways for 1G bps broadband services Volume of data darn near indescribable ... without the iPad Half the world's data is stored in hard drives Would anyone like to say a few words? Internet shutdown 'will never happen again,' says Egypt's IT chief The 6 Hottest New Jobs in IT WHITE PAPER: Avaya Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 A high performance modular routing switch for core deployments. Core network infrastructure needs to be able to handle increased load without packet loss, while providing quick recovery times in case of a component failure. Learn More Nader lambastes Cisco, Chambers for lagging stock Now even Ralph Nader is on Cisco's case -- not for any breach of consumer ethics, but instead for breach of investor return. Read More Microsoft's Office 365 launch puts Google on defensive Microsoft's launch of Office 365 has Google feeling pressure to explain why businesses should use Gmail and Google Docs. Read More Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos KDE users have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise from Facebook: Not only is the site blocking KDE apps like Gwenview from uploading, the social media giant has also taken down photos uploaded with the KDE plugins. Yet another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook for photo storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View This white paper from IDC provides a quantitative measurement of the business value of VMware View™ as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. It also provides an analysis of several key features, including a quantification of the value associated with the features and an overview of how they work. Learn more. Tilgin launches home gateways for 1G bps broadband services Swedish broadband equipment maker Tilgin has launched Simba, a platform for home gateways that can handle gigabit speeds. The availability of cheaper components has made developing Simba possible, the company said on Monday. Read More Volume of data darn near indescribable ... without the iPad The world's digital data is doubling every two years and the amount created or replicated in 2011 will reach 1.8 zettabytes, a pile so gargantuan that its size can only be rendered understandable to the layman when translated into iPads. That's right, words no longer suffice; we need something magical for this job. Read More Half the world's data is stored in hard drives The Journal of Science this year completed a study of 20-years of data storage. They found that, by 2007, the world had squirreled away 295 exabytes of data... which works out to 295 billion gigabytes. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs-without sacrificing performance or impacting service levels. Learn More Today! Would anyone like to say a few words? Yeah, journalists love to proclaim technologies as "dead" – and if you take us literally, we're almost always a bit premature with those proclamations. But when we say something is dead, what we're really saying that it's on the way out of the mainstream, and irrevocably so. Read More Internet shutdown 'will never happen again,' says Egypt's IT chief Yasser El kady survived Egypt's revolution to remain CEO of Egypt's IT development arm. He is now in the U.S. traveling city to city to meet with IT companies to assure them that Egypt remains a good place to do business. Read More The 6 Hottest New Jobs in IT IT job seekers have real reason to hope. No fewer than 10,000 IT jobs were added to payrolls in May alone, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, reflecting a steady month-over-month increase since January. And in a June survey by the IT jobs site Dice.com, 65 percent of hiring managers and recruiters said they will hire more tech professionals in the second half of 2011 than in the previous six months. Read More
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