Friday | 5 September, 2008
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Stories by: Beth Schultz

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    10 ways to get blazin' apps 17/06/2008 10:33:33

    How to optimize, accelerate and otherwise ignite application performance
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    Eight technologies for better data storage 22/05/2008 11:32:38

    Managing data stockpiles can be tough. These technologies can help ease the difficulty.
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    Sleeping SAN for an energy-conscious world 27/11/2007 08:47:47

    US Navy servicemen and women don their blues, whites or khakis, depending on the occasion and task at hand. For systems engineers at the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center, however, the color of choice these days is green.
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    Five tips for getting more out of your IT salary 03/10/2007 12:15:08

    Network executives share their success factors.
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    Seven things every IT person should know about storage 07/06/2007 15:20:04

    Thanks to virtualization and a host of other technologies, storage has left its silo. Its performance affects the whole computing shebang. Fortunately, new technologies that cross the boundaries of storage, management and compliance are smoothing over performance issues and easing the pain (and expense).
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    The new backup tools you can't live without 21/05/2007 17:14:50

    Spun off from the broader storage-resource management market, these tools monitor and report on backups across multiple vendors' backup products. In doing so, they can ease the auditing process. They create a way to implement chargeback programs for backups. They let network executives offer and verify service-level agreements for backups, and more.
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    Are we automated yet? 22/02/2007 16:55:40

    For the past five years, Dave Bartlett has been IBM's chief authority guiding large enterprises on how best to use self-managing technologies and standards. Today, as vice president of industry solutions, Bartlett is charged with using his autonomic-computing expertise to create highly repeatable, end-to-end packages that any company in a vertical market segment could implement easily. Here he delivers a status report about autonomic computing, a foundational New Data Center concept.
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    VOIP: an invaluable asset 26/09/2006 15:18:24

    When it comes to using advanced technology, 120-employee Goldsmith Agio Helms could teach the mega-sized investment banks of the world a thing or two. Take, for example, the sophisticated, converged network infrastructure over which the Minneapolis-based firm conducts its multinational business. Because it supports advanced applications such as instant messaging/presence, unified messaging, video calling and VOIP, the network lets bankers stay in touch and up to date at all times.
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    Perfecting app performance 26/09/2006 15:14:52

    To manage application performance, Evolution Benefits starts right at the source -- the code itself. "We sell our performance and uptime," explains Sean Erwin, vice president of application development for the U.S.-based company.
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    All things virtual 21/08/2006 09:28:16

    Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology's use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, for example, show that 75 percent of 1,200 respondents at global enterprises are aware of server virtualization technology, with 26 percent having implemented it and another 8 percent set to pilot it within the next year. Also telling is that 60 percent of the respondents who have implemented the technology plan to expand their use.
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    The hacker-resistant database 14/08/2006 09:35:30

    How many identities will be stolen or corporate assets commandeered before you build as strong a fortress around your database as you do around the perimeter? Millions? Dare I say, billions?
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