A Peek into Carnegie-Mellon's Open Source Lab
The university has set up a computing lab for its students using all FOSS tools.
Ruby on Rails POC
We recently finished a POC in Ruby on Rails technology. This resulted in Infosys Technologies adding a client project.
Earth Rangers Builds a Green Future with Efficient Storage
Earth Rangers is a Canadian non-profit organization that is focused on inspiring children to have a positive impact on the environment. The company also inspires the public and corporate leaders with its innovative headquarters.
Atlanta Falcons storage solution hits the ground running
AMB Group, the parent company for the diversified business and investment assets of Arthur M. Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, struggled to find a strategy to manage its annual storage growth of nearly 15 percent. AMB Group found itself playing a constant game of catch-up by spending large amounts of money for bigger servers with greater attached hard drive space. The company quickly realized it needed to go long, as in a long-term, cost-effective, IT solution to support its continuous business growth.
Amalga helps hospital keep swine flu in check
El Camino Hospital in California built a custom tool on top of Microsoft's e-health system to track patients that came to the hospital with flu-like symptoms.
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
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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