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by the staff of EnterpriseITPlanet Lenovo follows up on its promise to revive its IBM-rooted presence in the desktop market with a desktop that sports an all-new look and a tiny physical profile, the ThinkCentre A61e. But, does it stack up? We’re going to take a look at what this new design has to offer. […]

The newest episode of “Greg the Architect”: Any IT professional who’s had to manage complex services will see the humor in this video. “Greg the Architect – Off the Grid” This video was produced by SOA Now Journal, a publication of TIBCO Software. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Huawei’s AI Update: Things Are Moving Faster Than […]

Cisco Systems on Wednesday said its VFrame Data Center, the software/hardware platform unveiled in July, is now integrated with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 software. The announcement, which coincided with CEO John Chambers’ keynote address at the VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco, represents Cisco’s (Quote) latest and most comprehensive effort to cash in on the virtualization […]

By Victor Chang With e-mail rapidly becoming the principal business record of employee activity, e-mail systems need to provide massive scalability, high performance, and cost-effective ways to retain, search, and manage data. Yet today, in their efforts to deliver acceptable performance at an acceptable cost, most corporations require IT to severely limit the size of […]

This chapter is excerpted from the Second Edition of The Official Ubuntu Book, authored by Benjamin Mako Hill and Jono Bacon, with Ivan Krstic, David Murphy, Jonathan Jesse, Peter Savage and Corey Burger, published by Prentice Hall Professional, © Copyright 2007 Canonical, Ltd. All rights reserved. The Official Ubuntu Book With Ubuntu installed and ready […]

In 2004, Volvo decided to add an interesting component to their full-scale launch of the S40 sedan-video that could be downloaded to mobile phones. The promotion for the “Mystery of Dalarö” video was a successful campaign overall, but in a time where mobile video was in its infancy it was even more surprising to see […]

The July 2007 Netcraft survey showed continued growth and major shuffling among the Top 5 players. The research firm received responses from 125,626,329 sites, an increase of nearly 12 million from the April survey, which yielded 113,658,468 responses. The number of sites measured surpassed the 100 million mark set in November 2006 and set yet […]

These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it currently is. Trying Ubuntu out without changing your distribution or creating a new drive partition or installing it on another HD, setting up OpenOffice so ability to read/write Windows Office 2007 word processor documents are what […]

Scroll down to compare the features of Apache and Lighttpd:   Apache Lighttpd Web Server Server Type WEB WEB Latest Version 2.2.0 1.4.15 Price Details 0 Free; open source BSD license Rating 5 4 Vendor Apache Software Foundation lighthttpd Description The predominant open source Web server Extremely fast, lightweight Web server Features Administration GUI configuration […]

Let’s just say for the sake of argument that your business is running at or near peak efficiency, your current business model is on or above target, and the organization is running smoothly. Even in this perfect scenario, the need to continue to push for improvements will persist and when it comes to IT, regardless […]

Who knew? It’s not just the smartphone category that is the hot-ticket item driving mobile phone sales. The geegaws, doo-dads and other accessories sold separately for those phones are doing some driving, too. That’s the conclusion of a study by ABI Research. The New York-based research firm said the market for mobile phone accessories will […]

Thirty-eight years after the first videoconference took place, and almost 28 years since the first commercially marketed VTCs, or Video Teleconference, solutions became available, this concept still has not reached its full potential. Why is this? This article will explore the existing hang-ups, business trends, the technology today and future solutions for this time and […]