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Sep29
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I just finished reading a few blog posts and articles about the 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) being acquired by Bain Capital Partners and Huawei Technologies Co. of China in a $2.2 billion deal. I was a bit surprised by this because even though they've been eclipsed by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) when it comes to networking equipment; I didn't think the Marlborough, Mass. based company was ready to sell yet. Now I know this doesn't mean they're throwing in the towel, but I was startled nonetheless. The full press release can be viewed on their site here and it sounds as if Huawei and 3Com will be working together: "As part of the transaction, affiliates of Huawei Technologies will acquire a minority interest in the company and become a commercial and strategic partner of 3Com."
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Sep28
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Last week I posted an article "Is Windows XP Still An Option?" regarding Microsoft providing customers with an option to downgrade certain versions of their de facto standard operating system (Windows Vista) on all new PCs, to Windows XP. This...
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Sep27
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I use Trend Micro (NASDAQ: TMICY), security products on home and business systems. They seem to have one of the more comprehensive anti-virus packages and their messaging hygiene products are pretty impressive. Most importantly, I have never had a bad experience with...
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Sep26
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I ran across an article on The Register that reported the St. James' hospital in Leeds, U.K. frying about £1m or $2M USD worth of computer equipment slated for their new Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) system that was to...
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I began my IT career while working for the U.S. Coast Guard and our motto was "Semper Paratus" or "Always Ready". I just finished reading an post "Coastie Cutters Got Leaky Networks" on the Wired Danger Room blog and it...
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Sep22
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Well, it looks like we can chalk up another security breach to file-sharing or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software. I just finished reading an article on Yahoo! News titled "Mortgage data leaked over file network" and it reported an all too common...
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I've run across a few blog posts and articles that indicate Microsoft is softening their "Windows Vista on anything new" stance with PC makers. While you may still get Vista pre-loaded, you may be eligible to downgrade to Windows XP. Ina Fried...
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Sep21
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I normally wouldn't post on this, but I've become guilty in the past of becoming complacent in my IT work and not looking outside my organization to participate with my peers. I've been active in several IT forums, specifically the VMware...
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I ran across a blog post by Scott Lowe "Cool storage tricks: VMware Site Recovery Manager" on TechRepublic. The post referenced a new offering from VMware called Site Recovery Manager and it sounds as if it's designed to automate recovery at a...
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Sep20
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I ran across an interesting article on Yahoo! News; "AT&T: Network perimeter security should be virtual" that discussed a speech given at the IDC Security Forum in New York by Edward Amoroso, chief security officer for AT&T's services division.The gist...
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Sep15
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Well, I ran into an issue that I assume is becoming more commonplace; you just can't buy a PC without Microsoft's Windows Vista pre-loaded. The thing is, I DON'T WANT IT. I thought the four-year old motherboard in my home-built...
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I posted an article at the end of August, SCO Gets Their Comeuppance! and described SCO's recent legal woes and how a recent judgement in their case against Novell seemed to put an end to any hopes they may have had...
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Sep14
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I ran across an amusing and informative blogpost by Ramon Padilla, "Getting to the bottom of a buzzword: What is Web 2.0?" and realized after reading the first two paragraphs that I really had no clue what Web 2.0 is,...
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About a week ago I published a post, Four Socket + Quad-Core + 2U = Power!, about Sun Microsystems (NasdaqGS: JAVA) introducing a new server based on Intel's Xeon 7300 processor, which seemed quite a departure from the company whose core...
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Sep13
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While this threat is an old one, it has been cropping up in my mailbox recently with surprising frequency. These scam messages are of course from senders I do not know and usually include the sender stating they are the...
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Sep 8
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I just ran across a post from Paul Mah on TechRepublic, "Sun previews four-socket, quad-core server measuring just 2U" that describes Sun Microsystems (NasdaqGS: JAVA) preview on September 5th of the the first four-socket, 2U, quad-core server from a tier-one vendor,...
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Many companies have invested a great deal in hardware to centralize storage for applications, consolidate file servers and support disk-based backups, but HP (NYSE: HP) now offers a single product to fulfill all three roles.The HP StorageWorks All-In-One Storage System...
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Sep 7
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Well, now that Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL) has generated quite the buzz about their iPhone, they have reduced the price from a whopping $599 to just $399, which makes it much more of a contender against the Palm Treo and the Motorola RAZR2...
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Sep 6
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I'm publishing this post a bit late, but think it still important to keep folks informed of what the hacker/spammer crowd may be up to. For quite some time now I've been getting calls from my customers complaining that they're...
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Sep 5
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I was just reading the Technology section of the New York Times and came across and interesting article "Software via the Internet: Microsoft in ‘Cloud’ Computing" about a new service offering from Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT). There are already several vendors...
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Sep 1
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I had recently read an article on Ars Technica that indicated that sales of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have dropped dramatically and a few vendors are throwing in the towel:"According to a variety of new reports, the PDA market is drying...
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I mentioned in my bio that I'm a huge fan of server virtualization for the x86 platform, particularly VMware (NYSE: VMW) ESX Server for enterprise virtualization. I've only obtained one certification in my career and that was as a VMware Certified Professional (VCP). ...
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If you need to upgrade an existing software license or subscription, do a little research first and you might just save yourself or your business some money. I assumed that if you already owned a software product and the support agreement...
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