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MicroAge Becomes Polycom VSG-Infrastructure Authorized Partner

MicroAge has recently completed a series of certifications to become a Polycom VSG-Infrastructure Authorized Partner. This authorization allows MicroAge to offer high-end MGC conferencing and collaboration infrastructure products across the mid-market and enterprise clients. MicroAge

IT Resolution No. 1: Be Good To Yourself

You left it all on the field for your company in 2007. But a new year is a great time to think about doing something for yourself. Whether it's getting a new job, recalibrating your work-life balance, finding ways to manage your stress or just disconnecting during your next vacation, we have tips to help you make 2008 your best year ever. CIO

14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

The technology prognosticators at Gartner say the convergence of new IT delivery models will fundamentally transform the way businesses consume and interact with IT within the next three to five years. Gartner identified 14 nontraditional ways to acquire, package and deliver IT they believe will contribute to a shift in IT responsibilities, which are listed below with definitions from the analysts. Baseline

The Pitfalls, and Potential, of Corporate Social Networks

Although employees enjoy keeping a personal blog or spending time with contacts on social networking sites that they would want to participate in an internal corporate version of those sites. A new study has found social networking and collaboration does not yet have a natural extension behind the enterprise firewall. Baseline

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HP Solid State Disk Technology In Notebook PCs

An SSD is a data storage device that utilizes solid-state memory rather than conventional platters and moving heads. Designed to replace hard disk drives (HDDs), the SSD has no moving parts, eliminating the latency and other electro-mechanical delays associated with mechanical devices. As a result, access times for a SSD are much faster. Download the white paper

Solution Spotlight

Application Security: Is the Backdoor Threat the Next Big Threat to Applications?

Security researcher Chris Wysopal talks about the misunderstood vulnerability of backdoors, what he’s doing to formalize understanding of them, and what his research tells him about the security of open source versus proprietary applications. CSOonline

Virtualization: Under the Hood

Special Report: Our essential owner's manual to server, storage, application, and desktop virtualization technologies will help you break the limits of traditional, tightly coupled systems. InfoWorld

Solid State Drives: Coming to a Data Center Near You

For laptop owners, flash-memory drives boost battery life and performance while making notebooks lighter and more bearable for frequent business travelers. In the data center, benefits include higher reliability than their magnetic counterparts, lower cooling requirements and better performance for applications that require random access such as e-mail servers. Computerworld

The Green Data Center: Greening Enterprise Disk Drives

Hard drives in the data center frequently have the so-called "spindle farms," in which thousands of disks are providing data services to a wide array of corporate applications. When so many drives are spinning, small savings are quickly multiplied and substantial savings can be recognized by careful selection of disk hardware. GreenerComputing