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Why argue over SOPA, PIPA if they wouldn't do anything to stop content piracy anyway?

Posted January 18, 2012 - 1:19 pm

The SOPA and PIPA bills introduced in Congress are advertised as ways to stop illegal distribution of copyrighted content overseas, but all they do is make foreign sites harder for Americans to reach. Even their worst punishments won't stop a single foreign download.
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Biggest sites extend SOPA protest to try to stop Senate's Internet-censoring PIPA

Posted January 18, 2012 - 8:00 am

Some of the web's largest sites plan dramatic displays to mark their opposition not to the just-shelved House SOPA bill, but to the still-viable, still dangerous Senate effort at Internet censorship, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)
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Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

Posted January 18, 2012 - 7:21 am

Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs
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Tableau revamps its BI visualization tools with user-centric focus

Posted January 18, 2012 - 1:04 am

BI (business intelligence) vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as well as providing what the company calls "human-oriented" design and accessibility.
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IBM serves up real-time data for Tennis Australia

Posted January 17, 2012 - 9:02 pm

As players fight for the top spot in the Australian Open, behind the scenes, Tennis Australia is tracking their every move using an IBM scoring and analysis tool called SlamTracker.
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SAP acquires software from German company Datango

Posted January 16, 2012 - 8:27 am

SAP has acquired software from Datango that will allow it to add multilingual online help and training materials to enterprise software applications.
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Scottish university in IBM business analytics education drive

Posted January 15, 2012 - 8:34 am

IBM is working with a group of universities around the world, including in Scotland, to deliver advanced business analytics training as demand increases for the skill.
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Which is worse: Leaking secret cables for a good cause or urinating on Taliban for a bad one?

Posted January 13, 2012 - 5:33 pm

Bradley Manning is charged with one of the largest thefts of classified data ever, allegedly to oppose illegal killing, detention and torture of prisoners. Four Marines allegedly urinated on dead Taliban, for less noble reasons. Given the choice of just one, which would you prosecute?
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How to Implement an Effective SharePoint Governance Plan

Posted January 13, 2012 - 3:20 pm

Moving past the "what" and "why" of governance, an even harder question to answer is how to implement SharePoint governance. In this paper, we'll share a number of suggestions on how you can effectively implement a SharePoint governance plan.
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Office 365 SharePoint Online - what does it mean to my organization as a CIO?

Posted January 13, 2012 - 3:20 pm

The goal of this white paper is to clarify the disjointed and sometimes inconsistent information about Microsoft Office 365-including its benefits, challenges, costs, and service level agreements (SLAs) - and address the business considerations for migrating to Office 365 SharePoint Online.
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Office 365 SharePoint Online - Architectural considerations

Posted January 13, 2012 - 3:20 pm

The goal of this white paper is to clarify strategies for incorporating Microsoft Office 365 in your enterprise IT portfolio and address the technical considerations for activating SharePoint Online as part of your SharePoint strategy including migrating to Office 365.
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Microsoft Technology Center Reduced SharePoint 2010 Migration by Two Months with DocAve

Posted January 13, 2012 - 3:20 pm

DocAve migrated 12,000 site collections and 200 custom lists from SharePoint 2007 to Microsoft Technology Center's hosted SharePoint 2010 environment. Find out how.
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Optimize SharePoint Storage with BLOB Externalization

Posted January 13, 2012 - 3:20 pm

This document is intended to provide a comprehensive and balanced examination of SharePoint storage concepts and issues, and to equip you to fully understand, communicate and make informed decisions about the role of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.
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Making the transition from RDBMS to Hadoop

Posted January 13, 2012 - 12:00 pm

Your move to Hadoop is driven by a C-level exec on a mission or a skunkworks project deep within your IT department. Either way, it's a potentially profitable path.
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Overhyped trivia overwhelmed the few real innovations at Consumer Electronics Show

Posted January 13, 2012 - 10:12 am

The Consumer Electronics Show always generates a blizzard of hype, endlessly repetitive announcements of world-changing new products and a few real gems. This year's hype/news ratio is worse than usual, but it's not always obvious why, or what real innovations got buried.
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Nimsoft for Server Monitoring - A Nimsoft Service Level Management Solution White Paper

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:10 pm
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Configuration, Not Coding: How Nimsoft Service Desk Speeds Deployment and Time to Value

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:10 pm
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User Experience Monitoring

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:10 pm

In this webinar, you will learn hints & tips for improving end-user response times from Forrester Research analyst, Jean-Pierre Garbani.
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Best Practices for Monitoring Vblock

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:10 pm

Join Nimsoft and FusionStorm for best practices monitoring Vblock. Learn how FusionStorm provides cloud computing services from plan to build to operate and the best practices in place for assuring availability, high performance and a good user experience.
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Hints & Tips Cisco

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:10 pm

Overwhelmed by tracking your Vblock, Flexpod or Cisco UCS performance? Spend one hour with Nimsoft to learn how you can eliminate the overhead and expense of manual monitoring configuration and deployment.
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Enabling your service desk to be the front face to IT

Posted January 12, 2012 - 5:00 pm

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times.
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Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS vendors

Posted January 12, 2012 - 9:02 am

Open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings.
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Oracle reveals pricing for its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release

Posted January 11, 2012 - 5:37 pm

Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its family of specialized hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, suggesting that a general-availability announcement for that product is imminent.
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Best mobile data platform: New CES gadget? Or penknife you started carrying as a kid?

Posted January 11, 2012 - 4:59 pm

I used to think adding LEDs, lasers, USB flash drives and other digitized add-ons was gratuitous and anomalousuntil I realized how many people carry one without thinking about it and that having data with you without having to remember is the key to real mobile computing.
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Pro-SOPA Comcast uses SOPA-incompatible DNSSEC

Posted January 11, 2012 - 3:58 pm

Comcast's executives and its NBC subsidiary are hot for SOPA controls on Internet content. The company's geeks just finished a national rollout of DNS security, and killed a service based on the same mechanism SOPA uses for enforcement because it won't work with DNSSEC.
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