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RIM is dead. It isn’t in the ground yet, but its days are numbered, and the recent public discourse between anonymous RIM employees and the RIM CEOs indicates that RIM won’t fix the problem(s) because it won’t even recognize or admit they exist. So, what can you learn from RIM to make sure you don’t repeat its mistakes?
The first sentence of the original anonymous letter posted at Boy Genius Report sums the whole situation up: “I have lost confidence.”
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If you are considering using an iPad as a replacement for a notebook PC as I am doing this month for the 30 Days With the iPad project, you need to determine which model is the right model for the job. Obviously, if you already have an iPad, then you just have to roll with what you’ve got, but today I will take a look at some of the key considerations to keep in mind if you are shopping for one.
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New research released by Cisco Systems shows a steep decline in the number of mass spam or phishing attacks by cyber criminals, but a disturbing rise in the use of targeted phishing attacks that are more sophisticated and, for the criminals, more profitable.
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Here we go again. Some of you might say I am some sort of glutton for punishment, but it’s time to start a new 30 Days With project. I am typing this in the iWork Pages app on an iPad 2 because this month I am spending 30 Days With the iPad.
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Oracle is changing its spots, evolving from a software-only vendor, with its acquisitions of Sun Microsystems and earlier this week, Pillar Data Systems. In a virtuoso performance, Oracle president Mark Hurd and EVP Systems John Fowler talked about Oracle’s storage opportunities and how customers can get a 100-fold improvement by buying their integrated solutions.
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Most people understand that data in the cloud won’t have the same level of security and privacy that data inside your corporate firewall has. But some recent news has shown just how insecure your cloud based data really is.
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With the lines expected to blur between cloud service providers and cloud users, Cloud.com is positioning itself to succeed in both arenas, including joining the NetApp Alliance Partner Program and integrating its CloudStack IaaS (infrastructure as a service) platform with NetApp storage systems. By directly integrating with the NetApp OnCommand management software, Cloud.com can help automate provisioning volumes on the storage system, create Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of administrator-specified sizes, and perform LUN masking.
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Ubuntu Linux was a pleasant surprise. If I had to sum up my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux in a sentence, it would be “Ubuntu Linux is more than capable of being the primary desktop OS for most users, but the learning curve will have some bumps.”
The installation was a breeze. Actually–I installed it over Windows using Wubi, and on an external USB drive, and dual-boot with Windows on its own partition on the local hard drive, and all three installations were simple and straightforward.
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Cloud platform vendor OpSource has been acquired by services firm Dimension Data and is slated to become a part of the company’s new Cloud Solutions business unit. OpSource is a cloud and managed hosting provider with enterprise solutions for creating and managing public, private and hybrid cloud solutions.
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Today, Oracle announced that they were buying SAN array vendor Pillar Data. Pillar has, since its inception, been funded by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s Tako Ventures, so the whole transaction comes as a surprise to no one that follows the storage industry.
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