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Pre-Windows 8, PC Sales Worse Than Expected

That the PC market is in decline is no secret. But separate reports released this week by Gartner, IDC, and IHS iSuppli assert that the downward trend is even more pronounced than originally anticipated. IHS iSuppli said 2012 will be the industry’s first year-over-year drop in units shipped since the dot-com bust took its toll 11 years ago.


The contraction was caused by a variety of factors, ranging from the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets to economic concerns to the fact that many enterprises are midway through refresh cycles.


Still, the faltering numbers might not endure, with Windows 8 set to launch on October 26, there’s still hope for a late Q4 turnaround.
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— October 15, 2012 at 7:13 am

Windows 8 apps: The good, the bad, and the ugly

It’s crunch time. In just over two weeks Microsoft is hosting a massive media event in New York to officially launch Windows 8. With the clock winding down, Microsoft is working diligently to improve some of its Windows 8 apps, but there are still some big question marks remaining for Windows 8 apps.

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By IPHere
— October 13, 2012 at 7:12 am

SDN’s Potential in the Data Center and On the WAN

Software Defined Networking has the potential to reshape networks. This primer presents a brief overview of SDN and outlines potential use cases.
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— October 12, 2012 at 7:15 pm

Fast SSD Storage, Slow Networks

Systems built with solid state disks (SSD) represent the cutting edge in performance and are the “go-to” option for data centers looking to solve performance problems. So these systems should be coupled with the absolute cutting edge in storage I/O performance, too, right?

In some cases, they do need a high-performance network. But in many cases, the server–or the application running on that server–cannot take full advantage of a high-speed network, even if they can take advantage of SSD.

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By IPHere
— October 12, 2012 at 1:15 pm

Employers Are Hot On Application Developers

In the movie The Graduate , Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin, is famously given one word of advice on his future: plastics. If the 1967 classic were remade today (please don’t), the word would be: software.

Of course, most graduates (or dropouts) won’t be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, or Bill Gates, but in a shaky economy like this one, if there’s a safe, bankable major it’s in computer science. This conclusion is supported by our recent InformationWeek IT staffing report, which found that companies are anxious to hire security and application development talent, as well as application delivery and database management pros.

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By IPHere
— October 12, 2012 at 7:14 am

Compuware Launches Free Outage Detection Service, New Mainframe Apps

A new site lets companies monitor outages of third-party Web services in real time to help assess potential impact on their own Web performance.
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— October 12, 2012 at 1:13 am

Xirrus Primes the 802.11ac Pump

Can’t wait until next year to buy 802.11ac products? Xirrus hopes to snag eager customers with a preorder program.
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— October 11, 2012 at 7:14 pm

Iomega launches new flagship network storage array

One of the challenges facing businesses of all sizes today is how to corral the terabytes upon terabytes of data that is generated and archived every day. Iomega—a respected name in data storage—has a new tool that just might help meet that challenge, though. The new StorCenter px12-450r Network Storage Array.

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— October 11, 2012 at 1:13 pm

Windows 7 Malware Infection Rates Soar

The number of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows XP machines infected by malware is on the increase, while the number of infected Windows Vista SP2 machines has declined sharply.

Those findings come from the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (volume 13), released Tuesday, which reviews threat prevalence and infection rates seen in the first half of 2012.
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— October 11, 2012 at 7:13 am

4 Must-Ask Interview Questions for Network Engineers

If you’re looking to hire a network engineer (or be hired as one), here are four job interview questions that I’ve asked, and three you shouldn’t bother with. These questions will help you figure out what a candidate does and doesn’t know.
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— October 10, 2012 at 7:13 pm