Yet Another Reason That Cloud Computing Will Win
Fellow New Zealander, and veteran IT insider, Jim Donovan posted about a CIO Magazine article which discussed the increasing trend towards self provisioning of hardware within corporates. In the same...
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Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves
How old is your work computer? – asks the Wall Street Journal. Mine is a year-and-a half old. The dual-core former screamer (obviously not the one the the pic to the right) has become an average slow...
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1984 or Panopticon
Image via Wikipedia Zoli brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border: there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this...
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Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For?
Time to re-evaluate just what we consider “good brands” vs. junk. I could not resist the summer back-to-school discounts and upgraded two laptops – one of them is already making funny noises. Tired...
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The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device
Seriously. At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open,...
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Containers, Computers and Catalan sunshine
Image by dannybirchall via Flickr I took a quick trip to the Catalan city of Barcelona earlier this month; surely the first time I’ve been to that city without seeing the sea. I was there as a guest...
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No For Kno, Finally. It Was DOA Anyway.
Boomtown reports Kno, makers of the flip-open dual tablet designed for the education market is planning to sell off the hardware business, and focus on software only. Says Kara Swisher: That’s because...
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VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery
I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to...
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Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing
Picture Source: Blog.cordys.com Yesterday, under the shadows of OSCON 2012, Portland based cloud cost management company Cloudability ran a future of cloud fireside chat in which myself and fellow...
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BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future
Image credit: Cisco blog A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time...
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Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure
X1 Carbon with all the standard parts that come in box. (Click for full size image) Yesterday I received my X1 Carbon Touch from Amazon. First part of this whole adventure is that I sent it to my old...
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