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Hardware NewsTake a close look at six tablet options, from Apple to Android, with a focus on pros and cons for enterprise users.
VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a
wide variety of worldwide geographies. Cisco has high hopes that begrudging acceptance of BYOD will boost its own work-minded tablet. But one analyst says the networking giant is missing the point. Call it the stylus snafu: Samsung's over-the-top Super Bowl commercial failed to resonate with viewers and earned widespread mocking on Twitter. Here's why. The man who led the improbable little startup called Micron Technology leaves a big legacy. $40-million startup emerges with OpenFlow platform for virtualizating the network as effectively as servers. SoftLayer's customers can move data with the click of a button from virtual servers to physical and back, whenever they choose, in SoftLayer data centers. Take a peek at why CSC, just the latest fan of VBlocks, used the virtualization technology to build eight cloud data centers.
IT professionals have strong feelings about RIM, its products, and its plight. But the real issue is end user device preference. Motorola accidentally shipped 100 refurbished tablets with
old customer data still intact. Here's what you can do to ensure your information isn't sold by mistake. By entering the codes "1984" and "31337" in iRandomizer Numbers, you can create a sharable Internet connection using your iPhone. Microsoft cosponsors algorithm contest with $200,000 pot to spur development of gesture-based games and other apps. Check out three compelling devices, from a fitness gadget to a ground-breaking camera, recently featured on our Valley View web TV show. EMC Isilon and RainStor address enterprise gaps in the open source Apache Hadoop framework. You can bring your iPad to the Super Bowl. Should you be allowed to? RIM 'London' BlackBerry 10 picture shows no keyboard; BlackBerry 7 platform wins security certification for U.S. and Canadian government employees. As Amazon reported a 35% jump in revenue, it dodged key questions about Kindle Fire and AWS cloud services--namely, whether AWS is helping Amazon's bottom line or still working toward a breakeven point. Some developers are betting the next Apple iPhone will have NFC capability and pave the way for mobile payment technology to finally take off. HP wins on one ruling, but a judge denies both companies' requests to seal documents tied to the ongoing HP-Oracle Itanium case. iPad sales pushed Apple well ahead of Wintel giants like Hewlett-Packard and Dell in Q4, according to research. Cisco, EMC, and VMware have supplied a string of high-profile data centers with these special packages--rackmount servers packed with memory and optimized for virtualization, plus built-in storage and network switching. Do you know your tablet can also act as a teleprompter, whiteboard, heart rate monitor, or even an emergency Windows 7 machine? E-Series solid state drive array brings enterprise features such as scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability at $10 per gigabyte. Windows 8 prototype may be among the first to incorporate hands-free control technology originally developed for Xbox 360. AT&T hopes hybrid device with 5.3-inch screen will entice
customers who think buying both a smartphone and a tablet are overkill. It's a challenge to sort through the maze of storage products
to find a solution to your problem--but it's better than not having choices. More U.S. consumers hold on to feature phones and dumb phones. Are U.S. carriers to blame? Amazon's Android-based tablet expected to boost year-end revenues, which the company is slated to report Tuesday.
Here's how First American Title Insurance saved $800,000 by exchanging its HP Superdome hardware for commodity x86 servers, and resisted pressure to move from SQL to Oracle database technology. IT pros rate Cisco as the best-performing data center provider in our vendor evaluation, but its hold isn't secure. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police follow Find My iPhone directions to nab a suspect and recover an iPhone in the space of four hours. Every Windows Phone 7 device Nokia shipped in Q4 cost Microsoft $250, minus a royalty. But Microsoft is burning this cash with good reason. With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than traditional management tool vendors can. Apple changed the way we think about computing and digital devices--again--when it introduced the iPad tablet in early 2010. Take a look back and a peek ahead. Microsoft's upcoming entertainment and cloud services platform console could run seven times faster and dish up Blu-Ray. But gamers may not like rumored restrictions. Apple sold more than 15 million iPads during the holiday quarter, and CEO Tim Cook predicts tablets will outsell PCs in the future. As Apple reports its highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever, a few numbers pop. One example: Apple has $97.6 billion in cash on hand, enough to buy Sony five times, or about half of Google. Aren't notebooks and PCs in general on the way out as we adopt tablet and touch interfaces and everything else moves to the cloud? Not so fast. It took 10 months for hackers to crack iOS 5.0.1. Workplaces that allow bring your own device need to act immediately to avoid potential security risks. Buried in the iBooks Author software license agreement is a contractual requirement that gives Apple considerable power over content that you create using the software. Unless they embrace radical change, the once dominant Wintel partners will follow the photography giant's unenviable path into decline. Research In Motion is offering all three variants of its PlayBook tablet at this cut-rate price through February 4. But this device has drawbacks. iBooks textbooks offer interactive learning for $15 or less, but hardware costs could hamper Apple's success. Since healthcare pros have embraced tablets in a big way, tablet makers have come up with a few design and feature twists for this demanding audience. Novel cooling system turns normal groundwater into big savings for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is running a new 162 teraflop supercomputer, Olympus. Samsung denies reports that it's in talks to acquire Research In Motion, but that doesn't mean the BlackBerry maker is without options. Report suggests that Windows 8 tablets with Intel chips could cost significantly more than Android-based devices. This could push tablet makers to favor Intel rival ARM. Half of all enterprise IT managers have implemented or plan to implement solid state storage, research shows. Need to recharge your phone? Add your favorite water or beverage to the PowerTrekk Fuel Cell, and you get battery juice, no matter where you are. ILIO Diskless VDI stores and serves up to 160 virtual desktops per server without a storage appliance or disk array. |
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