http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:43:57 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-01T20:43:57Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/seagate-predicts-hdd-shortages-through-2012/?cs=49673 Back in November, our Arthur Cole wondered how bad the hard disk drive shortage , resulting from the devastating floods in Thailand, could get. It looks like we might have a better idea. Seagate Technology announced today that it thinks the shortage hard_drives disaster_recovery gartner western_digital seagate business_continuity asia-pacific Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:43:57 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/seagate-predicts-hdd-shortages-through-2012/?cs=49673 2012-02-01T20:43:57Z 1 week, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/seagate-predicts-hdd-shortages-through-2012 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49673 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/2012-will-see-ssd-prices-fall-below-1-per-gb-according-to-idc/?cs=49467 The Collapsing Digital Storage Universe How long will it be before we reach a crisis brought on by our insatiable appetite for storage? The solid-state drive market is sure to see a boost in adoption if the predictions from market research firm IDC solid-state_drives hard_drives it_market_analysts Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:11:28 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/2012-will-see-ssd-prices-fall-below-1-per-gb-according-to-idc/?cs=49467 2012-01-09T20:11:28Z 1 month, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/2012-will-see-ssd-prices-fall-below-1-per-gb-according-to-idc http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49467 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/cisco-to-take-aggressive-approach-to-competition/?cs=49096 IT Business Edge's Arthur Cole last month wrote a post titled "Barbarians at Cisco's Gate,"   in which he described some of the competitive threats being faced by the networking giant. Among those he mentioned were old rival HP and Huawei Technologies, cisco_systems networking Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:33:02 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/cisco-to-take-aggressive-approach-to-competition/?cs=49096 2011-11-15T20:33:02Z 2 months, 4 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/cisco-to-take-aggressive-approach-to-competition http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49096 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/survey-hints-at-possible-customer-dissatisfaction-with-vmware/?cs=49024 Small Business Virtualization Roadmap An examination of the opportunities and challenges related to server virtualization. VMware has a commanding lead in the enterprise virtualization market, but is that lead in danger of slipping? You might think microsoft virtualization disaster_recovery vmware citrix_systems it_market_analysts Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:30:39 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/survey-hints-at-possible-customer-dissatisfaction-with-vmware/?cs=49024 2011-11-07T16:30:39Z 3 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/survey-hints-at-possible-customer-dissatisfaction-with-vmware http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49024 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/experts-expect-hard-drive-shortage-due-to-flooding-in-thailand/?cs=48919 Just as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year impacted the supply of semiconductors , floods in Thailand will likely create a shortage in hard drives , impacting manufacturers of PCs, servers and other hardware. As Reuters reports, hardware solid-state_drives global_markets hard_drives Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:51:21 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/experts-expect-hard-drive-shortage-due-to-flooding-in-thailand/?cs=48919 2011-10-24T15:51:21Z 3 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/experts-expect-hard-drive-shortage-due-to-flooding-in-thailand http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48919 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/gartner-disk-arrays-for-cloud-a-growing-market/?cs=48789 Though cloud computing promises to help organizations get the most out of their data centers, there may be some bumps along the way when it comes to resource management . As our Arthur Cole wrote earlier this year, "... Changes in one portion of the storage_management cloud_computing virtualization it_market_analysts saas Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:23:12 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/gartner-disk-arrays-for-cloud-a-growing-market/?cs=48789 2011-10-07T15:23:12Z 4 months, 1 week ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/gartner-disk-arrays-for-cloud-a-growing-market http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48789 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/survey-shows-growing-interest-in-ssd-storage/?cs=48671 Solid-state disk (SSD) storage is rising rapidly in popularity, as evidenced by the results of a recent Zogby International survey that found almost 43 percent of IT decision makers are already using SSDs or plan to use them in the future. For 75 solid-state_drives data_management cloud_computing virtualization it_market_analysts budgeting midmarket_cio Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:50:25 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/survey-shows-growing-interest-in-ssd-storage/?cs=48671 2011-09-22T18:50:25Z 4 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/survey-shows-growing-interest-in-ssd-storage http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48671 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-expands-1-button-functionality/?cs=48463 Google has integrated its +1 button on third-party websites to its Google+ social network. Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering, shared in a blog post that users of Google+ can now click on +1 buttons and share content directly with +snippets social_networks google +1 google+ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:50:49 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-expands-1-button-functionality/?cs=48463 2011-08-25T15:50:49Z 5 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/google-expands-1-button-functionality http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48463 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/east-coast-data-centers-escape-earthquake-concerns-remain/?cs=48438 Five Disaster Recovery Tips for Businesses New tips that can help businesses protect their data and recover quickly from disasters. Yesterday's 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Virginia had no major impact on companies operating commercial data centers on disaster_recovery business_continuity Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:52:20 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/east-coast-data-centers-escape-earthquake-concerns-remain/?cs=48438 2011-08-24T14:52:20Z 5 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/east-coast-data-centers-escape-earthquake-concerns-remain http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48438 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/app-store-slated-for-windows-8/?cs=48353 Steps to a Victorious Windows 7 Migration A helpful rundown of steps to prepare for the move to Windows 7. Earlier this week, Microsoft started a new Building Windows 8 blog to make more information about the upcoming operating system available. In e-commerce microsoft windows software_and_web_development windows_8 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:51:42 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/app-store-slated-for-windows-8/?cs=48353 2011-08-18T14:51:42Z 5 months, 4 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/app-store-slated-for-windows-8 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48353 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/apple-issues-first-lion-update/?cs=48330 15 Hot Business Apps for Your Mac     Apple has released its first update to its Mac OS X Lion software. The 10.7.1 update is recommended for all Lion users and includes general operating system fixes to enhance the stability and compatibility of apple mac_os os_x_lion Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:09:07 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/apple-issues-first-lion-update/?cs=48330 2011-08-17T14:09:07Z 5 months, 4 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/apple-issues-first-lion-update http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48330 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/amazon-launches-aws-govcloud/?cs=48323 Six Tips for Compliant Cloud Computing It's complicated, but these tips will help you get your arms around the issues. Amazon Web Services has unveiled AWS GovGloud , a cloud service for U.S. government agencies and contractors. Designed to allow government_agencies amazon cloud_computing govcloud Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:48:23 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/amazon-launches-aws-govcloud/?cs=48323 2011-08-17T12:48:23Z 5 months, 4 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/amazon-launches-aws-govcloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48323 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-establishes-windows-8-dialogue/?cs=48312 Microsoft has launched a new blog, called Building Windows 8 , that will document the early design and building process of its upcoming operating system. Windows 8, nearing the pre-release stage, will be a reimagination of Windows, according to windows microsoft business_communications software_and_web_development windows_8 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:53:51 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-establishes-windows-8-dialogue/?cs=48312 2011-08-16T17:53:51Z 6 months, 10 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/microsoft-establishes-windows-8-dialogue http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48312 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/mozilla-releases-firefox-6/?cs=48303 Mozilla is releasing Firefox 6, the latest version of its Web browser, although it has quietly been available for the last several days through the Mozilla FTP servers , according to CNN . The interface for the browser is the same as it was for firefox mozilla software_and_web_development Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:45:33 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/mozilla-releases-firefox-6/?cs=48303 2011-08-16T14:45:33Z 6 months, 14 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/mozilla-releases-firefox-6 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48303 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/dell-launches-new-vostro-laptop/?cs=48270 Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Laptop Dell has added a new offering to its Vostro notebook line for small businesses. The Vostro V131 has a starting price of $499 and sports a 13-inch display (1366 x 768), a choice between Intel's Core laptops smbs dell vostro_v131 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:00:26 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/dell-launches-new-vostro-laptop/?cs=48270 2011-08-12T15:00:26Z 6 months, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/dell-launches-new-vostro-laptop http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48270