Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker
iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles.
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< ![if !vml]>< ![endif]>From Virtualization to Cloud
We bring you tips and strategies to smoothly evolve existing virtualization.
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rPath X6 Streamlines Linux, Windows VMs in the Cloud, On-Premises
rPath X6 expands on the company’s software appliance assembly and deployment ambitions with powerful configuration management capabilities and a spruced-up user interface that’s much improved compared with the Version 5.2 release that eWEEK Labs tested in 2009.
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EMC, Citrix in Deal to Run XenDesktop on VNX Storage Systems
The partnership with EMC enables users of VNX storage systems to scale out their XenDesktop deployments to as many as 1,000 virtual desktops per server/storage array.
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Brisk Tablet Sales Starting to Hurt HDD Market
At $28.1 billion, overall HDD revenue is 4.1 percent higher than the $27 billion reported in 2010, but is only about half the 7 percent expansion posted by the industry in 2010.
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Little MapR Joins Big EMC in New Hadoop Distribution
The Big Data specialist will become a key part of EMC’s Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, a 100 percent interface-compatible implementation of the Apache Hadoop software stack.
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Backup Provider Backblaze Now Includes Locator for Stolen PCs
The Locate My Computer feature allows users to see the ISP, IP address and geo-location of the computer if it has been stolen or misplaced.
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How to Get Started with Cloud Computing
View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing — reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads.
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Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide
This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments.
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Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud
Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)
To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma.
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What Can Identity Management Do for You?
Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)
Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies.
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