The whole world is on the edge of its proverbial seat in anticipation of the big Apple iPad unveiling tomorrow. There is ample speculation about a higher resolution display, Siri capabilities, and 4G/LTE connectivity. All of those things would be nice, but there are some very specific things that would make the iPad 3 a better mobile computing platform for business use.
Unified Communications Suffers An Identity Crisis
Feature sprawl, vendor marketing shifts, lack of education, confusion and other higher priorities are all contributing to the slower-than-expected spread of unified communications in the enterprise. In fact even the UC name is in danger of disappearing
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AnyMeeting Now Makes Online Meetings Free and Simple
If you’ve ever hosted an online meeting or webinar, you’re probably familiar with the costs involved and the hoops you have to typically jump through. If you’ve ever participated in an online meeting, you’ve most likely had to deal with trying to download and install the requisite client software while the meeting is getting started. As convenient and productive as they can be, online meetings are also sort of a pain in the ass.
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Predictive Analytics Key To Unlocking Big Data’s Value, Reducing Cloud Complexity
While adoption of predictive analytics systems is still relatively modest, the promise they hold—giving companies a quick and logical way to make use of unstructured or big data in order to provide preemptive warning of failure, among other things—is prompting vendors to embed the functionality in their larger management consoles and application performance management systems.
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Add Smarts To IT With Predictive Analytics
While adoption of predictive analytics systems is still relatively modest, the promise they hold–giving companies a quick and logical way to make use of unstructured or big data in order to provide preemptive warning of failure, among other things–is prompting vendors to embed the functionality in their larger management consoles and application performance management systems.
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Kaminario’s K2 Climbs the SSD Storage Performance Mountain
One of the most exciting development areas for the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industry is in the attempt to address the I/O gap challenge whereby servers are often frustrated in their attempts to read and write data as fast as they would like from traditional storage. Various approaches using solid state devices (SSD) are targeting the problem. To the attempts of innumerable smaller companies to address the I/O gap problem have been added efforts from large IT vendors, notably EMC with its VFCache and IBM with SSD caching for its XIV storage systems. The smaller vendors want to shout out: don’t forget about us. A number of those companies deserve attention and Kaminario is one that has a clear and solid vision that deserves to be heard.
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IBM’s SmartCloud Tames Life Cycle Management
IBM has been active in the cloud market for years, including launching its Blue Cloud offering back in 2007, but now the company says it is addressing the next shift in enterprise cloud adoption. According to its new study, nearly 90% of businesses are moving beyond virtualization, so the company’s new SmartCloud software, introduced at Pulse 2012, offers improved visibility, control and automation for organizations to securely manage and deploy cloud services.
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Why Apple Should Pair the iPod Nano with the iPhone
Apple has made some significant progress breaking down corporate walls and establishing iOS mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad, and even Mac OS X as viable business platforms. One Apple device that isn’t generally thought of as a business tool at all, though, is the iPod. But, with a few tweaks the iPod Nano could be a much more capable device.
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Lost Smartphone? Don’t Plan On Seeing It Again
You know that sinking feeling in your stomach when you realize you don’t know where your smartphone is? Thankfully, every time I have experienced that I have been able to resolve it by simply calling it and following the rings to find out what couch cushion it fell behind. But, what happens when you really lose your smartphone–like leaving it in a taxi, or at a restaurant?
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Will Windows 8 Tablets Have What It Takes to Succeed?
Microsoft is ready to join the tablet party this year with Windows 8. As dominant as the Apple iPad is, there is demand out there for a more versatile and powerful mobile platform. So far, Android tablets and other rivals like the HP TouchPad and BlackBerry PlayBook have failed to capture much attention, so there is still an opportunity there for Microsoft.
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