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Scaling Apps on the Google App Engine
It's been almost a year since Google introduced the beta of its Google App Engine, and eWEEK Labs wants to see what applications have been built on the technology. While none have yet reached the size and power of Facebook or Twitter, ...
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, on open source and interoperability, software modeling and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.
SOA: Wanted Dead or Alive
Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes set off a storm of IT industry chatter around the viability of SOA when she pronounced that service-oriented architecture is dead and the recession killed it. However, all SOA-related technologies ...
Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak
Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analy ...
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.
11 Best Practices to Save on Data Centre Power
Data centre managers could save millions of kilowatt hours annually by implementing 11 best practices, says analyst company Gartner. Most of these projects can be completed with little or no budget or effort. Here's the list of 11 powe ...
Six Tips to Build Your Brand
Social networking tools such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others offer SMBs new ways to build communities and your brand. Here are the best ways to build both at the same time.
Will SMBs Spend on Virtualization in 2009?
While some reports suggest small businesses won't be slashing through IT budgets in 2009, is the average midmarket company willing to invest in virtualization technology? DataCore, among other vendors, says yes.
VKernel Capacity Analyzer a Strong Tool in VMware Environments
VKernel's Capacity Analyzer 2.0 can use VMware VirtualCentre statistics to offer clarity in virtualization deployments. However, the virtualization tool is not a cross-platform product; it doesn't address Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualiza ...
Five Tech Trends to Watch in 2009
Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on.
Should Your Corporate Head Be in the E-Mail Cloud?
Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits.
Google Versus Microsoft: The Fight for the Future of Cloud Computing
While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies are preparing to clash when it comes to how the world's cloud computing infrastructure deve ...
Apple’s Jobs to Take Medical Leave Until End of June
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence from his post until the end of June because his health problems turned out to be "more complex than originally thought".
Salesforce.com Rationalises InStranet Assets to Create Service Cloud
Salesforce.com's latest foray into cloud computing comes in the form of the Service Cloud. This is an effort to combine Google search, Facebook connections, online communities and discussion forums in a SAAS environment to improve cust ...
SanDisk Sees 2009 as the Year of SSD Notebooks
The company believes SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009. Fast new SanDisk G3 drives will become available in midyear in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB.
Microsoft: Patch Server Vulnerability to Combat New Attacks
Microsoft has repeated its warning to users to apply a vulnerability patch in their Windows Server service. A new variant of the Conficker worm that targets this flaw is to blame.