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Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?

Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs) that could do color printing and copying and scan directly to e-mail, fax or files. And the owner, the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO, saves $19,000 yearly.

By Lamont Wood | 08 May, 2012 20:56

Tags: roi, it strategy, it management, hardware systems, hardware, Gartner

The upside of shadow IT

First, a scary statistic: Gartner predicts that in less than three years, 35 per cent of enterprise IT expenditures will happen outside of the corporate IT budget. Employees will regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other Cloud services they want, all with the press of a button. Others will simply build their own applications using readily available Cloud-based tools and development platforms.

By Julia King | 23 April, 2012 23:55

Tags: Gartner, it management

From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

IT as we know it is over.

By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

Tags: cloud computing, Configuration/maintenance, consumerization, Data Center, hardware systems, Harvard Business Review, infrastructure management, internet, mainframe, management, Nemertes Research, networking, Nicholas Carr, outsourcing, services, wireless

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) review: A nice price, but where's the 'wow'?

Android devices - both smartphones and tablets - are getting increasingly affordable. With its new Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) tablet, Samsung is obviously hoping to claim its piece of the budget-price pie.

By JR Raphael | 12 April, 2012 09:18

Tags: Emerging Technologies, hardware, hardware systems, mobile, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile OSes

Is there a 'best' way to set up your private Cloud storage?

Given that Cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private Cloud almost always require different approaches.

By Jon Gold | 28 March, 2012 06:24

Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, internet, private cloud, private cloud storage

The big promise of big data

For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

Tags: applications, cloudera, data management, data mining, MapR, oracle, software

2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.

By Lucas Mearian | 31 January, 2012 06:58

Tags: IBM, storage

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime: The Rolls-Royce of Android tablets

Watch out, Android tablets: There's a new king in town.

By JR Raphael | 03 December, 2011 10:56

Tags: Asustek Computer, hardware systems, tablets

Are you ready for networking in the cloud?

The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.

By Jim Metzler | 31 October, 2011 21:48

Tags: cloud computing, internet, SaaS, Software as a service

Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.

By Julie Bort | 09 March, 2011 03:31

Tags: amp, cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, dell, hardware systems, internet, open stack, rackspace, server

Cloud tools organize your messy digital life

When people moved from paper to digital files on a computer, it didn't take long to realize that you can get just as burdened by digital stuff as by hard copies. Before long, companies sprang up to sell utility programs to help you find and organize the stuff on your computer. We're going through a similar cycle right now, with many of us moving our digital assets to servers in the cloud, and finding that managing stuff scattered across a myriad of sites belonging to a myriad of companies can be terribly frustrating.

By Bill Snyder | 08 March, 2011 07:36

Tags: cloud computing, internet

What cloud computing means for the real world

There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my mind different perspectives on the cloud. I've tried to set aside the views of the IT executive, who seems to dominate the debate.

By Keir Thomas | 05 February, 2011 11:53

Tags: cloud computing, firewalls, Google, internet, Internet-based applications and services, network security, online security, security, Web-based Applications

How DRM could ensure cloud security

Yet another survey is indicating that security is a big issue for those intending to take up cloud computing.

By Keir Thomas | 04 February, 2011 05:53

Tags: applications, cloud, cloud computing, data protection, digital rights management, encryption, firewalls, intellectual property, internet, Ipswitch, legal, network security, online security, open source, security, software

Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually because it works so poorly. But recent developments, including harnessing the computational power of the cloud, have made it more usable and will make it even better in the near future, according to Microsoft.

By Nancy Gohring | 14 December, 2010 06:43

Tags: applications, consumer electronics, Game platforms, games, gaming peripherals, Hosted, Microsoft, Phones, services, smartphones, software, speech, Xbox360

Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

Tags: data centres, green IT, HP, HP POD, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Triforce Services, Verb IT

Funny IT helpdesk requests

We’ve all been through it, so this is guaranteed to make you smile. IT service management (ITSM) provider SysAid Technologies asked IT managers to share their true, most bizarre IT service requests. Here are some most memorable IT moments.

By CIO Staff | 04 August, 2010 11:09

Tags: funny, IT help desk, services centre

Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 09:40

Tags: apache, cloud computing, databases, Facebook, high performance computing (HPC), lamp, Linux, memcached, mysql, open source, php, SaaS, software development

Slideshow: Open source at Facebook

It’s loved by millions and has risen from a small-time university social networking service to the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. It’s the phenomenon that is Facebook. Popularity, however, doesn’t come easy. With some 400 million unique home pages Facebook is pushing the boundaries of traditional Web application scalability and it’s not shy to admit that it has been achieved by leveraging open source software. We take a look at some of the slides presented by Facebook at this year's FOSDEM conference in Belgium.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 14:25

Tags: cloud computing, Facebook, open source, social networks

CIO says communication is key to buy-in

To ensure harmony between IT and business management, Jeff Kubacki recommends communication, communication, and more communication.

By Stephen Lawson | 15 April, 2010 06:41

Tags: business IT alignment, CIOs, it management

SOA Grows Up -- and Out

Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

By John S. Webster | 09 March, 2010 06:04

Tags: bpm, soa

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