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What you missed: The top sleeper tech stories of 2010
31 December 2010, 5:00 am

The worst of the recession is over, but don't think the challenges facing IT are going to get any easier. The long budget drought has left a software and hardware deficit estimated at $500 million, and server virtualization is stalling, despite having been long seen as the solution to out-of-control power costs and underutilized data centers.

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The most innovative personal electronics of the year
1 January 2011, 5:00 am

 Dek:    Take a look at some of the most innovative tech of the year -- and the most innovative tech of the near future            Source:    PC World              No          

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5 things you need to know about BYO tech
28 December 2010, 6:00 am

Two megatrends collided in big IT shops during 2010, and will continue their irresistible force/immovable object dynamic moving into 2011 and beyond, analysts say.

One is the well-ordered, well-established practice of consolidating servers and PCs as much as possible and standardizing on specific manufacturers, form factors and component lists to minimize support, training, and replacement costs.

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The health care industry faces its risky ERP moment
31 December 2010, 5:00 am

When businesses started deploying large ERP and CRM systems in the 1990s, it didn't take long to learn that deriving a significant return on investment would take far longer than vendors promised and customers hoped. Indeed, many early deployments were failures.

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Is Microsoft becoming a security slacker?
3 January 2011, 1:14 pm

Nine years ago, Microsoft drew a line in the sand and told customers it would focus on making its code more secure and its software development process more transparent.

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50 billion reasons why Facebook is not worth $50 billion
3 January 2011, 2:09 pm

It seems Facebook, the social network personally endorsed by God, is now worth more than eBay, Yahoo, and Time Warner -- all without selling a single share to Joe or Jane Public. The reason: Wall Street uber-bank Goldman Sachs, which just pumped another $450 million in venture capital into Facebook, leading to a valuation estimated at a cool $50 billion.

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Hadoop, SharePoint, vSphere, and the iPad point to intriguing possibilities for tech
4 January 2011, 5:00 am

Dear Bob ...

I don't really need advice so much as a perspective. I've been in IT for more than 30 years, which makes me a codger is some circles. I try to keep up to date and to stay interested in the latest and greatest, but it's getting harder. The new stuff seems to be increasingly like the old stuff.

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Where mobile technology is heading, from 2011 to 2020
4 January 2011, 5:00 am

It's been barely four years since Apple's iPhone changed the expectation of what a smartphone should be and inspired a trend that will deeply affect many companies' technology and business operations. In fact, it already has. And in just the last two years, every major smartphone platform has undergone significant change in response, adapting to the iPhone example and adding unique value on top of that.

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Five security trends for 2011 and beyond
4 January 2011, 5:00 am

You've likely seen plenty of articles lately detailing forthcoming IT security trends and defenses. I have a list of my own, but I bet it's a bit different.

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Adobe offers top 10 list for Flash Platform in 2010
4 January 2011, 1:43 pm

Adobe Systems has published a top 10 list of happenings for the Adobe Flash Platform in 2010, while also acknowledging tough times last year due to an ongoing feud with Apple.

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11 hot ERP topics for 2011: analysis and predictions
2 December 2010, 5:00 am

The year that's fast coming to close has been an exciting, dramatic, and wild ride for the typically staid world of ERP software: 2010 saw unprecedented lawsuits, impressive growth in new software-delivery models, TMZ-worthy executive shake-ups, and many critical acquisitions that, combined, should have lasting effects on the enterprise software market.

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Deferred IT maintenance is a ticking time bomb
31 December 2010, 5:00 am

$500 billion -- it's a number so big you'd assume it's a component of the national debt. It isn't. Instead, it's what Gartner analyst Andy Kyte calls the IT debt. "When budgets are tight, maintenance gets cut. After a decade of tight budgets, the scale of the maintenance backlog has created systemic risk, particularly for large organizations," he says.

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Server virtualization has stalled, despite the hype
31 December 2010, 5:00 am

Four years ago, data center server utilization was just 18 percent. To put it another way, on average 82 percent of the server capacity in major data centers was underutilized. Given all of the emphasis on server virtualization in the last few years, you'd expect utilization to have increased sharply. But it hasn't. According to Gartner research, overall utilization is still at 18 percent -- and utilization of x86 servers is one-third lower at 12 percent.

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Flash blamed for RIM PlayBook's short battery life
4 January 2011, 6:49 pm

You have to feel a little bit sorry for Adobe Flash. The much-maligned technology has been dissed by Apple. It's unstable on Android.

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Has HP given up on smartphones and tablets?
5 January 2011, 5:00 am

Expect a parade of tablets at CES this week. You'll see several manufacturers introduce tablets based on Google's Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" mobile OS, due this spring. Microsoft will allegedy announce -- or is that re-announce?

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