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How to virtualise mission-critical applications
Enterprises are virtualising more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of applications and better configuration management; universal high-availability services; automated resource [...]
What to consider before signing up for Google Drive
Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch [...]
10 most powerful IaaS companies
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies, assembled by Network World with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise. Each was asked [...]
4 critical trends in IT business continuity
In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organisations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are [...]
BYOD Troubleshoot: Security and Cost-Savings
A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive’s personal mobile device containing corporate customer data. The man called up the company asking for $50,000 [...]
Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in 2003, the Central Repository has become a primary source of [...]
At home in the cloud: The emerging opportunity for telecom operators
Residential consumers are demanding more and more cloud computing services and storage, and the volume of data they want to store in the cloud is substantial.
10 apps every iPad user should own
There are many thousands of apps available. (As Apple’s advertising campaign says, “There’s an app for that.”) But some apps are simply must-haves – whether for their functionality, interface brilliance, [...]
From Coca-Cola: How to empower IT
As the CIO of the Coca-Cola’s Bottling Investments Group, Javier Polit has strong ideas about how to ensure that IT is in sync with the company’s business needs. Polit brings [...]
A year after killer tsunami, Sony factory faces tough reality
The story of this Sony factory, which took the full brunt of a powerful tsunami that washed through a year ago, reflects that of much of Japan’s northeastern coast – [...]
Price versus brand takes focus in the battle for smartphone supremacy
Established vendors such as HTC, Sony and LG Electronics want to set their smartphones apart from less expensive devices from ZTE and Huawei. But as looks and hardware specifications are [...]
Computers may control intersections for self-driving cars
While scientists have been busy with making more accurate self-driving cars, at least one set of researchers has thought even further ahead and developed a smart intersection that can manage [...]
Top 10 technology trends to change the world in next decade
Here are the top 10 technology trends that will change the world in the next decade, according to Dave Evans, Cisco’s chief futurist, who was speaking from Cisco Live 2012: Trend 1: The [...]
Four ways to manage your online reputation
This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it’s known, is a day to “increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among consumers, organisations and government officials and [...]
Crowd computing- the future?
While firms are up on their toes in their respective bids to take their companies to the cloud–touted to be the future of computing–a visiting MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [...]
