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9 free personal clouds offer something for everyone

Posted September 23, 2013 - 3:50 pm

A personal cloud service lets you share photos, music and documents among all your devices easily and quickly, but the way that sharing happens depends on which cloud service you choose.
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Bitbucket vs. GitHub: Which project host has the most?

Posted September 18, 2013 - 3:20 pm

The right choice boils down to a number of factors -- you might even consider using both.
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Four excellent Dropbox alternatives for your small-business storage needs

Posted August 19, 2013 - 1:03 pm

Dropbox revolutionized the way we share information, and no enterprises have enjoyed the benefits more than small businesses. Cloud storage has enabled them to access critical data from the road, work across geographic boundaries, easily share large files, and do away with costly physical infrastructure.
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Version 3.0 of Nimble's CRM helps you find connections and keep them

Posted August 13, 2013 - 1:30 pm

Nimble 3.0 brings a nice package of new features, helping you stay on top of your networks.
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Hands-on: Twitter's new two-factor authentication sounds cool, but we can't get it to work

Posted August 7, 2013 - 3:28 pm

The encryption behind Twitter's new in-app security scheme sounds wonderful! Now, if only it worked...
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Chef cooks up configuration management

Posted August 6, 2013 - 12:32 pm

Opscode's Chef packs the power of Ruby and plentiful Cookbooks, but lacks features and polish found in other solutions
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First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on

Posted July 24, 2013 - 6:14 am

Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off
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TwinStrata delivers data to the cloud

Posted July 23, 2013 - 9:56 am

TwinStrata's CloudArray is a brokerage platform between enterprise networks and cloud storage services providers, and we found in testing that it's pretty clever.
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Puppet Enterprise 3.0 review: More strings pulled

Posted July 16, 2013 - 11:31 am

Version 3.0 of Puppet Labs' configuration automation tool shines with speed boosts, orchestration improvements, and deeper support for Windows servers.
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PasswordBox - One password to rule them all?

Posted July 2, 2013 - 8:00 am

There has been some degree of hype recently around the start up PasswordBox. Their goal is near to my heart - create a single solution to manage all of your username and passwords online. With high hopes I jumped in line for their 1 Million account giveaway and was supplied with an account in just a few days.
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Oracle Database 12c review: Finally, a true cloud database

Posted June 26, 2013 - 1:53 pm

Pluggable databases bring a new level of efficiency and ease to database consolidation, while a wealth of other new features address performance, availability, and more
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Open Drive turns cloud storage services into one big file sharing network

Posted June 3, 2013 - 8:30 pm

You can keep your Google Drive files private, or you can use it as one huge file sharing network. Many Google Drive users allow public access to their files, which means that if they have a certain type of file that you also need, you can request a copy...if you can find it.
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Give Gmail an extreme makeover with Gmail Offline

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:16 pm

The Web interface for Gmail has a very distinct look. Your office mates can probably recognize it at a glance. This Chrome extension, however, might cause a few double-takes in your office: Gmail Offline, an extension by Google, puts a completely different face on Gmail, making it more similar to the tablet version used on Android tablets.
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Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:03 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end
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Review: VMware vSphere 5.1 looms large

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:00 pm

VMware takes virtualization higher and deeper with rich storage automation and more advanced virtual networking tools
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Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap

Posted April 30, 2013 - 1:56 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters
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Review: 4 killer cloud IDEs

Posted April 17, 2013 - 11:11 am

Surprisingly beefy, browser-based JSFiddle, Icenium, Cloud9, and Codenvy stretch from client-side JavaScript to server-side Java and Web stacks.
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Puppet or Chef: The configuration management dilemma

Posted April 2, 2013 - 11:11 am

Puppet is model-driven, Ruby is procedural, and both are large, messy, open source ecosystems plagued with pitfalls
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How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:50 pm

Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools
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Hands on with Google Keep: Can it slay Evernote?

Posted March 21, 2013 - 8:48 pm

Evernote who? Google is taking on the perennial digital note-taking favorite with Google Keep, a service that lets you store quick notes, checklists, Web links, and photos for things you need to remember or keep track of.
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Fear of Facebook: 7 free apps that guard your privacy

Posted March 18, 2013 - 6:53 am

Facebook users are constantly being told that their privacy is under siege. Here are seven apps that can help secure your personal data.
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Amazon, the mother of all clouds

Posted March 14, 2013 - 10:33 am

Ah, Amazon -- did Jeff Bezos choose that name to symbolize the largest bookstore in the world or did he realize that he would one day create an enterprise cloud service that was as large and complex as the river basin? After spending some time with his enterprise infrastructure service, I think he saw this coming.
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SocialBro analyzes your Twitter community

Posted March 8, 2013 - 12:09 pm

SocialBro is a handy tool for analyzing your Twitter community, and its free version boasts a slick interface.
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Webmail war: Gmail vs. Outlook.com vs. Yahoo Mail

Posted March 1, 2013 - 10:22 am

The three most popular free Web-based email services have all seen big changes recently, from revamped interfaces to advanced features. Does Google, Microsoft or Yahoo now deserve your webmail business?
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Review: Office 365 turns up the heat

Posted February 27, 2013 - 12:34 pm

Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management
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