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By Chad Perrin
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To help prepare readers for the future, I’ll share my thoughts on ten major security myths I have encountered in 2009. Each of these is chosen for its prevalence, [...]
One of Exectweets’ most popular features is the business advice we share in the form of brief, inspiring quotes on our Twitter account. If there was ever a Grand Master of Brief, Inspiring Quotes, it was surely Benjamin Franklin. And he was a founding father in more ways than one: As a successful businessman and [...]
Solid state drives for computer systems are old technology–they have been available for over a decade. The earliest solid state drives (SSDs) were based on DRAM, the same underlying technology as modern memory, although they were often priced well in excess of regular memory (and beyond the reach of consumers) due to the engineering [...]
Before we know it, it’s going to be 2010. Why don’t we wind up 2009 by making some predictions for the year to come? We’d love to hear your guesses about what will happen in the wide world of IT over the coming twelve months.
Need to get in a predictive mood? Check out the 2010 [...]
Much of the public battle in solid state storage has taken place in the consumer arena. There were far too many high priced, low performing options in the market and 2008 –2009 was spent clearing those out.
When the smoke cleared we were left with two major competitors: Intel and Indilinx. Intel’s X25-M series of drives [...]
Here at Techdirt, we always have a constant barrage of projects going on behind the scenes. Even though our team is lean and mean, it’s still always a challenge to make sure that we’re all on the same page and well communicated.
One of the most used applications by our team is Google’s online office [...]
The discussions about the most optimal thermal conditions for data centers have been going on for quite some time now. At this point the dominating opinion has been that the cooler it is inside a data center, the better it is for the equipment. Most data centers currently operate in a temperature range between 68 [...]
A question surfaced on IT Pros Q&A about the merits of building your own Web servers for internal use.
At first this may seem a bit nuts, considering the deep interest in cloud computing and all its power and capabilties.
But an argument for building an internal “cloud architecture,” is emerging as a way to better manage [...]
For months now, we’ve been sharing pithy, inspiring quotes on Exectweets’ Twitter feed–ones we think can inspire business people, although many tend to be excellent advice for life in general.
We know you like these nuggets of wisdom, because thousands of you have retweeted them, helping to spread the wisdom throughout the Twitterverse.
So here’s a request: [...]
By Greg Shultz
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As an IT professional, chances are you read a lot. And, its a good bet that most of what you read consists of manuals and other technical books and [...]
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