• As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself

  The 60th anniversary of IBM's digital tape is coming up in May. Oh yeah, and tape is dead. Or so industry pundits have declared, echoing similar prognostications for the mainframe.

• Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible

  Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch.

• New iPad already accounts for 1 in 15 Apple tablets

  A week after the launch of the new iPad, the device now accounts for about 1 in 15 Apple tablets accessing the Internet, according to a mobile ad network said.

• Linksys Powerline connections: Wired without wires

  Last week here in Gearhead I discussed my ongoing saga of trying to get decent IP DSL service from AT&T U-Verse.

• Yet more DSL woes

  For the last few weeks I've been wrestling with my new AT&T U-Verse DSL service and outlined my travails here in Gearhead (here and here) after which you might have assumed all would be well, that AT&T would have pulled out all the stops and sorted out my issues. Alas, this week I'm no happier and, apparently, neither are many of you.

• The Fine Print(ing)

  CIOs are finding that getting printing under control not only saves money, it opens the door to thinking about their printing requirements more strategically

Whitepapers about 3M

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  3M - HP Managed Print Services saves more than $3M at 3M

  “People forget now that just a few years ago, when they walked to the photocopy machine, it was often broken. Or it was making lousy copies,” notes Paul White, IT Print Services Manager at 3M. “And we were throwing away money on personal printers that were horribly expensive to operate. It was costing us literally millions of dollars a year in waste.” See how partnering with HP has changed this for 3M- download today. Read on.