Y2K: The good, the bad and the crazy
The notorious Y2K bug put IT on the map — and nearly wiped out its credibility. Ten years later, we remember the upsides, the downsides and how techies rang in the new millennium.
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DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess
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Adobe will be top target for hackers in 2010, report says
Adobe Systems’ Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted.
The future of open source
11 leaders outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Will Capgemini convince enterprises to trust the cloud?
Several tech companies now support Amazon.com’s Web services, though at different levels.
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The 2009 Handbook of Application Delivery
Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations choose appropriate solutions.
A year in the clouds
If we had a Trend of the Year award, cloud computing would be the lucky winner, even though what people mean by “cloud computing” remains up for grabs.
Cloud computing to the max
Some companies could move most of their apps to the cloud. Here’s how one did it.
Toshiba develops translation system for cell phones
Travellers in or from East Asia may soon be able to turn to their cell phones for quick, easy and cheap translation help thanks to a new application from Toshiba.
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How Operating Systems Create Network Efficiency
Lake Partners Strategy Consultants conducted research to understand the efficiencies created by different operating systems. Research included (but was not limited to) investigation of Juniper Network’s operating system (JUNOS software). For customers who perceived a difference in efficiency between operating systems, Lake Partners quantified that difference in key network areas. Based on these customer interviews and the data collected, Lake Partners’ found that in specific network areas JUNOS software creates significant and meaningful operational efficiencies. Specifically, those who perceive the most impact from JUNOS software save a total of 25% of time on common network operations tasks compared to competitive operating systems.
Eight reasons to choose Safari or Firefox
There are many fine Mac Web browsers to choose from, and no reason not to have several installed so that you can switch among them as needed. Even so, most of us rely primarily on one main browser. For that purpose, I recommend using one of the two most popular ones–either Apple’s Safari 4 ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ) or Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ).
Test Center: Safari 4 preview
Apple’s new beta of Safari for Mac OS X and Windows is fast, beautiful, tuned to the latest Web standards, and finally even with the remarkable WebKit project
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Where did my e-mail go?
I get a call from a user who has all this e-mail in his mailbox, but he can’t see any of it. Outlook shows he has a bunch of unread e-mails. I go look at his inbox, and sure enough, there are a bunch of unreads, but the list doesn’t show anything like subject, title, sender, etc. …
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