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The Rise of a New Kind of Administrator
For the last couple of decades, administrators have been split into a few different buckets. There are lots of specializations, but most admins are generally network, system, storage, or database...
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States Taxing the Cloud: It Was Only a Matter of Time
You know what they say about two things being certain in life. The tax part of that illustrious pair is now rearing its ugly head in the world of cloud computing. It seems that politicians are finally...
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How to Pick Cloud Contenders Among Pretenders
Infrastructure is the most basic level of cloud computing. A cloud provider offers you, as a cloud application owner or user, the ability to run your business application without managing the...
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IT Forecast: Empty Private Clouds
When asked about cloud computing in an interview, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once ranted, “Cloud is water vapor,” and then pointed out that cloud computing is simply “a computer attached to a network.”...
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The Future of Networking is Looking Up (to the Cloud)
The era of modern business networks began over twenty years ago and was marked by the introduction of public packet-mode networks as an alternative to leased line-based wide-area networks (WANs). Frame...
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Emerging Technologies are Changing the IT Job Market
Stardate: 523201.3, U.S.A.– Technology is changing and growing so fast that a reference to the future, and Star Trek, seems appropriate. I’m often asked about the direction of the technology market and...
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What Google’s Chromecast Means to Business
While Chromecast is not making waves yet, if it only takes a $35 device to get remote content or push content to a TV or display, lots of new business use cases are going to appear, and sooner than you...
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Alan Turing and Security, Exploiting Innovative Thinking
It has been 77 years since Alan Turing wrote his seminal paper, “On computable numbers,” and 59 years since he died. What possible relevance could he have to the modern world of security? Well,...
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The Data Center Era
You can track the history of business through real estate. For the first several centuries of civilization, most economies were centered on agriculture. In the 18th century, crop yields were all...
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A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat and the audience is captivated by the spectacle, but the real magic happened behind the scenes — a sleight of hand. When you stream a movie to your smartphone, it’s...
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