IT Underworld follows George and Elias, two lowly foot soldiers in the IT army of a large company, and their battles with clueless end users and meddling execs.
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We received a lot of very funny caption contest entries this week, but none that cracked us up quite like The Toast in the Machine's circular career path. For making us (and hopefully you) laugh, he'll be receiving a $25 Amazon gift card.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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We have 5 copies of these two new books to give to some lucky readers. The deadline for entries is November 30, 2009.
AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
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Bad desk-side manner
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Windows 7 fine print
George discovers the side effects of self-medicating with the Windows 7 beta.