Sandy brought out the worst in some tech pundits who were ready to pounce on companies that went offline in the face of a 100-year catastrophe. But in cases like Sandy, continuous uptime is the wrong goal.
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Superstorm Sandy Lessons: 100% Uptime Isn’t Always Worth It
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Hurricane Sandy Delivers Tricks, No Treats, to Tech Infrastructure
Superstorm Sandy and last year’s nor’easter turned Halloween into fright nights for technology users. This year’s storm downed 25% of cell towers on the East Coast, flooded data centers, and knocked Web sites offline.
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Porticor Beefs Up Cloud Security with Split-Key Encryption
Porticor’s Virtual Private Data service encrypts information stored in private and public clouds, and uses homomorphic encryption techniques to protect master keys.
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The Physical-to-Virtual Cookbook Part 1
Migrating applications from a physical to a virtual environment is no easy task. This multi-part series presents a real-world migration project. Part 1 looks at the client’s environment, examines the rationale for the migration, and walks through efforts to inventory the data center and map application dependencies.
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Energy Dept.’s Titan Supercomputer: Record Breaker?
With a throughput capacity of more than 20 petaflops, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s new Titan supercomputer, which Oak Ridge said opened for business Monday, could be the most powerful computer yet.
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MIT Researchers Turn Heads With WLAN Tech: Coded TCP
Today’s WLANs are jam-packed with engineering whiz-bang, from antenna technology to proprietary tweaks under the hood. Now a new approach, called Coded TCP, may yield even more amazing results.
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Riverbed Tackles APM with Acquisition of OPNET
WAN optimization and network performance management vendor Riverbed is acquiring OPNET, which will broaden its application performance management capabilities.
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VMware Revenues Show Cloud Worries
VMware recently reported revenue growth of 20% in its third quarter ended Sept. 30. It projects revenue growth for the year of around 21% to 22%. That means it will close out the year with total revenues close to $ 4.5 or $ 4.6 billion, compared to $ 3.8 billion last year. Pretty good for an enterprise software company facing “tough macroeconomic conditions,” as co-president Carl Eschenbach phrased it. Or is it?
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Twitter, Facebook, Smartphones and Other Drugs
Internet addiction isn’t an official diagnosis yet, but always-on mobile devices and ever-updating social sites can lead to obsessive behavior.
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Why Windows RT needs native Facebook and Twitter apps
Microsoft is hosting a media event tomorrow to mark the official launch of Windows 8, and the Surface RT tablet. The initial reviews of the Surface RT have had high praise for the quality and construction of the tablet hardware, but almost universally reviewers are concerned with the lack of apps for Windows RT. Two apps in particular, though, stand out as giant voids in the ecosystem: Facebook and Twitter.
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