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Courts quash copyright trolls; recognize IP address is not a person

Posted May 16, 2012 - 2:35 pm

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous
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Occupy to get earful of sound cannon at Chicago NATO protest

Posted May 15, 2012 - 8:04 pm

Chicago police plan to use a pair of LRAD sound cannon only as communication devices to broadcast instructions to protesters expected to pack downtown Chicago this weekend to protest the NATO summit, not as the painful crowd dispersers as they were designed to be.
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Why even the least geeky are hot for solid-state drives

Posted May 15, 2012 - 2:46 pm

High cost and a reputation for flakiness limited sales of SSD flash drives as alternatives to hard drives. Cost and flakiness are still a little high, but both are dropping, making SSDs waaaay sexier to consumers than cloud or virtual storage, no matter what geeks think about it.
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Taking the measure of big data: More is more

Posted May 15, 2012 - 8:00 am

Some believe that 99.9% of big data is worthless, but I disagree. What you might discard as worthless today, may be useful to another analyst tomorrow. It depends on the questions you ask the data, how you ask them, and when.
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Where did 'cloud' come from?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:30 pm

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays

Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:50 pm

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:50 pm

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Information Governance: Turning Data Into Business

Posted May 10, 2012 - 6:10 pm

This whitepaper explores current information governance practices, challenges, and ROI among US, UK, and German firms.
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Overheated vote-counter automates election, places 60K votes itself

Posted May 10, 2012 - 1:48 pm

A relatively simple machine designed to read paper ballots and store the results broke new ground in New York gubernatorial elections by adding tens of thousands of extra votes to those cast by humans after warm polling place caused vote-counter to overheat.
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In-database analytics: The key to big data performance

Posted May 10, 2012 - 12:00 am

Analytical functions reside inside the database with in-database analytis, so it's no longer necessary for the queries to wait for data to load.
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BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo

Posted May 9, 2012 - 1:10 pm

With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
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5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation

Posted May 9, 2012 - 1:10 pm

A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.
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Switching Schedulers - Not As Complicated As You Think

Posted May 9, 2012 - 1:10 pm

Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms.
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Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities

Posted May 9, 2012 - 1:10 pm

This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements.
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ThePirateBay wants your opinion on file sharing, copyright hypocrisy

Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:19 pm

The Pirate Bay is teaming up with Swedish researchers who specialize in copyright-, file-sharing and enforcement on survey designed to provide more objective data than that supplied by RIAA and MPAA to help counter rabid anti-piracy plunder-and-pillage copyright enforcement rules.
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Six Characteristics of an Effective Solution

Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:10 pm

Get best practices and real-world examples for using a data delivery system that works with your workload automation solution in this white paper.
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Optimizing Business Processes in Today's Enterprises

Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:10 pm
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How to avoid big data spending pitfalls

Posted May 9, 2012 - 7:25 am

The Big Data hype machine is in full swing. While the promise is great, Big Data projects also can be an expensive trap if you fail to prove the business case or give your vendors leverage over you.
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Why will IT STILL not support BYOD?

Posted May 8, 2012 - 4:08 pm

Despite years of experience showing cloud and mobile computing not only increase productivity, but make end users happier and reap otherwise-lost hours of work while employees are at home, many IT shops still won't support work using personal devices.
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How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:50 pm

Get help evaluating your next purchases and accelerate the business value of IT as your datacenter continues to evolve. Download this Technical Adoption Profile on How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility from Forrester Research.
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Anonymous will leak UFO data, or was trolled again

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:31 pm

Anonymous is disavowing knowledge of a YouTube video warning the collective will leak proof that aliens visit Earth, which is funny, but is just one of a growing list of trolling incidents that hold Anonymous up to ridicule.
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Redefine Expectations in the Data Center

Posted May 8, 2012 - 11:40 am

Need to do more with less? Watch this video to learn how HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help your business deploy servers three times faster; initiate problem anaysis five times faster; increase administrator productivity three times; and experience storage performance six times faster.
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The Cost of Retaining Aging IT Infrastructure

Posted May 8, 2012 - 11:40 am

This paper describes HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, the technology on which they are based, and the way they address many of the causes of operational costs found at customer sites. The hardware and software capabilities of the HP servers were designed to be proactive, reducing the effort and knowledge required to run the server systems and leveraging automation to reduce maintenance costs and IT staff costs.
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Explore the Power, Flexibility and Serviceability HP ProLiant DL360p and DL380p Gen8 Servers

Posted May 8, 2012 - 11:40 am

The DL360p and DL380p deliver innovative advances in performance, serviceability and lifecycle automation to address the pressing demands of today's data-intensive and virtualized IT environments. Based on the HP ProActive Insight architecture, these intelligent servers can speed provisioning, increase uptime and greatly reduce the time and resources companies expend on server deployment and management.
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Real-time risk management: At decision time, every moment counts

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:00 am

After the 2008 financial crisis, many risk professionals received the capital to invest in real-time risk management technologies. The lesson? Take advantage of an window of opportunity to improve risk tools.
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays

This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. Despite rather gloomy macroeconomic conditions worldwide and ongoing geopolitical unrest in the Middle East, the midrange and high-end modular disk array storage market grew 8.2% from 3Q10 through 2Q11, compared with the same period the year before. Propelled by technological innovation and enhanced scalability, this continued growth in vendor revenue supports the observation that IT executives are willing to invest in modern midrange and high-end modular disk storage systems to improve operational efficiency, to support deployments of virtualized IT infrastructures, and to address the impact of unabated terabyte growth.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Information Governance: Turning Data Into Business

This whitepaper explores current information governance practices, challenges, and ROI among US, UK, and German firms.

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BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo

With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.

White Paper

5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation

A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

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