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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I recently asked for and received from Seagate (See recent post about them moving their paper head quarters to Ireland here) a Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5 Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) to use in an upcoming project. That project is not to test a bunch of ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
With the 2010 summer solstice having occurred in the northern hemisphere that means it is time for a quick out and about update. It has been a busy winter and spring in the office, on the road as well as at home.
Some results of this ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Apple iPad via www.apple.com
With the formal release and availability of the Apple iPad (See previous post here) along with networking capabilities including 3G and WiFi, needless to say there has been plenty of buzz in the tech sphere and beyond on both what you can do, as well as what ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Seagate (NASDQ: STX) corporation, the parent of the company many people in IT and data storage in particular know as Seagate the disk drive manufacturer is moving their paper headquarters from the Cayman Islands where they have been based since 2000 to Ireland. ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
What metrics matter for social media and networking?
Of course the answer should be it depends.
For example, would that be number of followers or how many posts, tweets or videos you post?
How about the number of page hits, pages read or unique visitors to a site, perhaps ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
It is that once a decade activity time this year referred to as the US 2010 Census.
With the 2010 census underway, not to mention also time for completing and submitting your income tax returns, if you are in IT, what about measuring, assessing, taking inventory ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Welcome to the winter 2010 edition of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) news letter. This inaugural edition of the StorageIO news letter coincides with our 5th year in business along with recent web site and blog enhancements.
In an age of social media including facebook, twitter, blogs and video, some might ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Granted it is winter in the northern hemisphere and thus snow storms should not be a surprise.
However between December 2009 and early 2010, there has been plenty of record activity from in the U.K. (or here), to the U.S. east coast including New York, Boston and Washington DC, across the ...
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
The end of year christmas and new years holiday season has come and gone which means of course that 2009 is a wrap along with the travel from being out and about.
In addition to getting some time to relax a bit (playing Wii resort, snow plowing, cooking ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
This is the time of year when people make their predictions for the next year.
Building on some recent surveys and polls including:
Whats your take on Windows 7
Is IBM XIV still relevant
EMC and Cisco Acadia VCE, what does it mean?
What do you think of IT clouds
Whats Your Take on ...
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