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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With his twist on cloud computing, supernatendo is the winner of this week's contest. See the winning caption, along with some very funny honorable mentions and Phil Johnson's original cartoon.
For tapping into our fascination with Tweeting pets, Jesse Luna is the winner of this week's caption contest. Of course, there's no first dog romping around the White House lawn just yet, but when there is, we're not-so-secretly hoping he'll be a Twitter hound.
In which Elias learns the surprising truth about how AT&T was able to double network capacity in four hours in response to excess iPhone usage during SXSW.
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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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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