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  Michael Steinhart | Date: 01-27-12 |

  x86 servers are good for general-purpose applications like email and file storage, but higher-powered servers with multicore processors and large memory capacities can turbocharge database and transactional applications while maximizing utilization.
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  A Retailer Learns Data Is Just Data Without Analytics

  Judy Hogan | Date: 01-27-12 |

  Collecting data is a great thing, but if you can’t parse it for business-strategy needs, it’s a useless effort.
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  Make the Move to Cloud for the Right Reason

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 01-26-12 |

  A smart cloud infrastructure automates many IT tasks, such as virtual machine creation and deployment, which needed to be manually performed in the past. This makes automation the key reason why companies should move to the cloud.
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  Rent a Virtual PC in the Cloud

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 01-26-12 |

  Your next PC may be in the cloud, where free storage and rentable apps allows anyone to sync their Windows desktop with an iOS device such as an iPad, an Android tablet, a laptop and a desktop computer, whether its Windows, Linux or even a Mac.
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  New Analytics Appliance Helps Retailers

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 01-25-12 |

  In today's marketplace, consumers are increasingly using information from mobile technology and social networks to make competitive purchases on the fly. A new appliance from IBM lets retailers run complex, real-time analytics in a matter of seconds to...
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  Business Ethics Takes Center Stage

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 01-25-12 |

  Unlike the popular image of corporations as unfeeling centers of greed that exploit workers to enrich their CEOs, leading academic and industry organizations counter that the most successful enterprises are those that enforce strict ethical principles.
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  Requiem for the TV Remote

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 01-24-12 |

  The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, was the funeral marking the end of the TV remote as we know it.
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  Science Ed Crafting Multiplayer Games

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 01-24-12 |

  "If you can't beat them, join them" is the mantra at MIT, where a massive multiplayer online game is slated to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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  Tool Improves Security and Understanding of DNS Configurations

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 01-23-12 |

  Researchers have created a tool to improve the effectiveness of a federally mandated DNS security mechanism. Called DNSViz, the tool could increase IT workers’ understandings of how complex DNS configurations work and lessen vulnerabilities from malicious...
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  Cyber-Security Worsens

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 01-23-12 |

  Internet security breaches spiked in 2011, and despite the best efforts of programmers worldwide, the bad guys are winning. Mobile devices, especially minimally vetted Android apps, will likely mark even worse unauthorized intrusions in 2012.
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