Stories by: Robert L. Mitchell

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    Hosting virtual desktops: Tips for a successful outcome 04/05/2011 02:17:00

    If you've already virtualized the servers in your data center, desktop virtualization may seem like the next logical step.
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    Display tech to watch this year: Haptics create a buzz 16/03/2011 05:33:00

    If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the trend. Haptics provide tactile feedback to your fingers as you touch a display by vibrating all or part of the display surface.
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    Four red-hot display technologies to watch in 2011 15/03/2011 21:13:00

    The apps on your smartphone might be brilliant, but what about the display? Emerging technologies could soon deliver the richer, Wizard of Oz Technicolor experience you crave while performing like a Maserati.
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    Display tech to watch this year: Multitouch catches fire 09/03/2011 05:59:00

    Touch-screen panels have been around for more than a decade, but it was the 2007 introduction of a multitouch screen in Apple's iPhone that galvanized the market. Now the business is going gangbusters -- as are the innovations that touch-screen manufacturers hope will build on Apple's success.
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    Will touch screens kill the keyboard? 07/01/2011 02:49:00

    Thanks to a handful of emerging technologies, virtual touch-screen keyboards are getting closer to the feel of real electromechanical keyboards. Enhancements such as tactile feedback and surfaces that change to mimic physical keys could eventually redefine the virtual keyboard experience for millions of users of devices ranging from smartphones to tablets and touch-screen PCs.
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    IT networking gear goes green 07/12/2010 05:07:00

    Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.
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    The scary side of virtualization 09/11/2010 02:47:00

    At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure that has subsumed more than half of his company's production servers. Two other IT executives chimed in with their own nagging worries.
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    Ice balls help data center go green 14/10/2010 01:10:00

    Green isn't usually the first color that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 degrees. But that's exactly where I/O Data Center has opened a 180,000-square-foot commercial data center collocation facility that couples an energy-efficient design with the use of innovative green technologies. Those range from an unusual setup for its air handlers to its server-rack design.
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    Cloud promises savings, delivers speed 14/09/2010 00:03:00

    In the time it takes to get a cup of coffee, any one of the hundreds of engineers and developers at mobile computing chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. can provision himself a new server -- one that's fully configured with compute, storage, networking, middleware and other resources. "You can get something provisioned within 15 minutes," says Matthew Clark, senior director of IT.
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    Microsoft gets its Exchange cloud in order 29/04/2010 07:43:00

    Microsoft has been ramping up its cloud-based Exchange Online offering for its largest customers -- even though that may mean cannibalizing its own on-premises Exchange Server installed base.
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    Corporate e-mail in the cloud: Google vs. Microsoft 29/04/2010 05:14:00

    E-mail is the third rail of enterprise IT operations. You can mess up elsewhere, but bring down people's e-mail and you'll start getting irate calls literally in seconds.
 
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