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	vSphere5 sets the virtualization bar VSphere 5.0, the latest iteration of VMware's "Cloud Operating System," boasts a wealth of updates, including new tools to manage fleets of VMs, and vast tiers of virtualized, vMotion-enabled storage links. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Accelerate Recovery Time After a Disaster In this Quest Software white paper authored by the Data Management Institute, learn the key challenges in designing an effective disaster recovery plan. Then discover how a solution based on continuous data protection can rapidly restore your critical applications and get your business running again with virtually no downtime. Read Now! In this Issue Recoup with data dedupe Splunk explains it all A week with the Motorola Droid Bionic 11 Android apps to boost speed, battery life Lenovo ThinkStation C20 WHITE PAPER: Intel Raise QoS in vSphere*4 with Dell & Intel The industry transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is creating new quality of service (QoS) challenges. This paper examines best practices for analyzing, monitoring and controlling bandwidth in VMware vSphere 4.1 environments when using Dell servers and Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit server adapters. Click to continue Recoup with data dedupe Backing up servers and workstations to tape can be a cumbersome process, and restoring data from tape even more so. While backing up to disk-based storage is faster and easier, and probably more reliable, it can also be more expensive. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Splunk explains it all If there's gold in log files, Splunk, Inc's Splunk will help you to find it. Splunk bridges the gap between simple log management and security information and event management (SIEM) products from vendors such as ArcSight, RSA, Q1 Labs, and Symantec. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel Laying the Groundwork for Private and Public Clouds Over the past two years, the concept of cloud computing has grabbed hold of the IT consciousness and stirred up the industry. But with so many vendors jumping into the cloud-computing fray, promising the world and then some, deciphering what's real and what's not can be difficult for even the most seasoned IT professionals. Read now. A week with the Motorola Droid Bionic The Droid Bionic, the latest top-of-the-line Android phone from Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless ($300 with a two-year plan), is more of everything. The paradox -- which I discovered after working with the phone for a week -- is that all that more winds up being somewhat less. Read More 11 Android apps to boost speed, battery life The mobile operating system Android for phones and tablets offers a wide variety of apps and can be quite useful in your professional and personal life. But after you've added a bunch of apps and used it for a while, Android can also get bogged down or unstable, run slowly and/or eat battery juice too quickly. Read More Lenovo ThinkStation C20 Lenovo originally designed its compact ThinkStation C20 workstation for financial markets where both the number-crunching power of the system and the amount of space it saves is important. However, the ThinkStation C20, released in June, can also be considered a graphic artist's tool for running sophisticated software that manipulates 3D graphics and renders video, or as a software development platform. Read More
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