It’s December 29th and I have started to transfer personal DNS domains from GoDaddy. Their position on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act)—their reversal not withstanding—was the nudge that pushed me over the edge. Frankly, GoDaddy has been acting poorly over the last few years and I decided to move my domains elsewhere. So far, the transfers have gone well with nary a hiccup.
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Transferring DNS Registrars Not A Problem
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Cloud Storage: See You Next Year
If cloud storage was one of the few bright spots in information technology in 2011, the trend is likely to continue through 2012, for many of the same reasons, analysts and vendors say. Predictions for 2012 in the area of cloud storage include continuing support by small- and medium-sized businesses; improved linkages between public cloud services, private cloud services, and local storage; reduced costs due to increased competition; and revenue projections of more than $ 1 billion for Amazon Web Services alone.
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iWave Raises The Flag For Storage Automation
One of the fascinating things about the IT industry is its role as an ongoing incubator of innovation that impacts the lives of individuals, organizations and society. Now, if Raymond Kurzweil is to be believed, that trend will continue with no foreseeable end in sight. One hotbed of IT innovation is automation, particularly storage automation. And iWave plans to be a trend setter in storage automation.
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Security 2012 Outlook: Brace For New Types Of Attacks
Each time enterprises manage to thwart one type of cyber attack, the criminals develop a new strategy, and a recently released security forecast from Cisco Systems identifies the new threats to watch out for in 2012. Meanwhile, a security industry education group predicts that salaries for security experts will grow by 4.5 percent next year as demand for their services grows with the threats.
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5 Business Tech Resolutions for 2012
With the holidays behind us – or at least winding down – depending on what you celebrate, time is ticking away on the last few days of 2011. As you bag up the shredded wrapping paper, and start taking down your decorations, take a moment to ponder the year ahead as well.
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2011 Was An Awesome Year For Networking
After about eight or nine years of networking innovation stagnation, the number of new innovations starting in 2010 and exploding in 2011 is astounding. Speed and feeds are increasing, but the exciting work in 2011 occurred in new technologies to support initiatives such as cloud computing, storage and data convergence, as well as migrating to IPv6. Here are the highlights.
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The Cloud, Day 19: IT Department Included
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 19
So far I have found a number of advantages when using cloud-based tools and services during my 30 Days with the Cloud adventure. There is one big, unspoken benefit to embracing the cloud, though — it comes with a “free” IT department.
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Hey, Broadcom: Will 2012 Bring Us Gigabit Ethernet?
We’ve come a long way since the early days of wireless networking. On the right 802.11n network today, you can see data rates of 300 Mbps and real throughput that tops Fast Ethernet speeds. But things change quickly in the wireless space, and after a recent conversation with chipmaker Broadcom, I can smell ridiculously fast wireless off in the distance.
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Year In Review: Cloud Storage’s Silver Lining
While many technologies blamed the laggard economy of 2011 for their failures, cloud storage was one of the few that could point to it for its success. Numerous information technology organizations, facing data growth due to factors such as the requirement to keep data for electronic discovery purposes, found themselves with growing storage requirements yet smaller budgets. But cloud storage systems and services helped users deal with the uncertain economics of 2011 by letting them fund that growth using operational expenditure funding, rather than having to make capital expenditures in the hardware, software and people required to run one’s own data center.
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Year In Review: The Good, The Bad And HP
As we wrap up another year of doing more with less, it’s time to look back at the highs and lows of the vendors of IT products, services, panaceas and placebos. Based on the latest quarterly earnings, HP ($ 32.3 billion) had a comfortable lead over Apple ($ 28.27 billion) and third-place IBM ($ 26.2 billion). Microsoft ($ 17.37 billion) held down fourth place, followed by Dell ($ 15.4 billion), Intel ($ 14.2 billion), Cisco ($ 11.3 billion), Oracle ($ 8.4 billion) and EMC ($ 4.98 billion).
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