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Author of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, William Gibson talks about the relationship between his fiction and the contemporary urban landscape
In the server environments, disk storage is becoming more and more important, and the choice of hard drives is very broad - connectivity intefaces (SAS, SATA) and their speeds, rotational speeds, desktop vs nearline vs enterprise drives, form-factors and so on. How to choose the most appropriate HDD drive type?
The purpose of this document is to discuss currently available internal and external HDD storage interfaces for IBM® System x® servers and to provide recommendations on how to choose the right options to better fit business needs and application requirements. The document is organized into the following sections:
After giving away their margins, publishers have let marketing and royalties for most of their writers slide
Die Welt wird sich in den nächsten Jahren gewaltig ändern. Die Vorstellung, ausgerechnet die Formen des wirtschaftlichen, politischen, kulturellen Zusammenlebens, die sich auch in Europa erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg durchgesetzt haben, würden das 21. Jahrhundert prägen, hat angesichts der demografischen und der Machtverhältnisse etwas Tollkühnes. Es wird neue Balancen von Volksbeteiligung, von Wirtschaftsmacht und Herrschaft geben. Die neuen Medien werden darin wichtige Rollen spielen.
There's nothing simple about enterprise security, but there are plenty of best practices that can keep most businesses safe from the most likely and pervasive threats. Unfortunately, according to a new study from research firm Echelon One and enterprise key and certificate management company Venafi, more than half of all IT departments are failing at some of the most important security practices. Here are the top 5 things your company could probably do better.
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Microsoft's 1.7 million quarterly phone sales compare to 46.8 million for Android, 23.9 million for Nokia's Symbian, 19.6 million for the iPhone and 12.7 million for BlackBerry. [...]
The only major platform Microsoft is outselling is apparently HP's WebOS, which doesn't even show up in the rankings because it sold so poorly.
new research from GigaOM Pro and Isurus Market Research & Consulting, sponsored by IT support vendor Bomgar, suggests the Millennials have more respect for the IT organization than most of us give them credit for.
earch the news for "copper theft" and look through the headlines. LOOK. Why are there so many stories? Stealing wire to sell the copper? From a cell tower? What is this, the Great Depression?
Reports from the Department of Energy estimate that copper theft is responsible for $1 billion worth of damage every single year. The problem is so rampant that there's a coalition to prevent copper theft. State laws are being passed left and right, requiring close monitoring of all copper sales. What gives? It's the economy, stupid.