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What is Your Digital Grid?

What is Your Digital Grid?

As consumers of digital technology do you not get the sense that the pace of change is increasing and impacting us with little time to sit back, watch, take things in, and try to make sense of it all.  Nowadays digital devices and digital environments tend to suddenly show up almost invisible to our awareness [...]

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Which Language Do You Speak, Facilities Talk or IT Dialect?

Which Language Do You Speak, Facilities Talk or IT Dialect?

In all the conferences related to data centers that I’ve attended so far, there is a session or two that discusses the integration of facilities and IT to manage a data center more effectively. So far, there does not seem to be an effective solution that might apply uniformly to the average data center. There [...]

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Google Brings Intelligence with Knowledge Graph

Google Brings Intelligence with Knowledge Graph

  Starting today, your search results for google may look different. That’s because the search king has built a 500-million-item database of people, places, and things – and they’re calling it the Knowledge Graph. It will display summaries of topics when your search is related to one of the 500 million items in Google’s new [...]

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Web Design Update for the week of 5/14

Web Design Update for the week of 5/14

Today, many companies and businesses successfully harness the new media for different campaigns. These include product branding, advertising, and generally tapping the vast online community. These companies know the importance of web design in achieving their distinct needs and goals. A business makes profit online when the site attracts potential clients on the strength of [...]

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SEO – is it really THAT important?

SEO – is it really THAT important?

Many print publications had (and are having) a difficult time adjusting to the online marketplace. Many publications no longer exist, have been bought out, or have greatly decreased staffs. And while the number of online consumers has grown over the past half-decade,  some publications have actually taken advantage of the new media world. One such [...]

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Some Basics of Cloud Computing in 10 Minutes

Some Basics of Cloud Computing in 10 Minutes

The recent Open Cloud Conference was a little different from other conferences on cloud computing. It was not big compared with other nationwide conferences, but it attracted a lot of technology geeks and practitioners of cloud computing. Most people were casually dressed (more relaxed than even standard Silicon Valley attire), and most of them were [...]

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May 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

May 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

Marking the May 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities. The first bulletin administrators should address immediately is the mammoth security bulletin MS12-034.  The sheer size of this security bulletin will undoubtedly affect the majority of your network when patching this month. This bulletin covers: 72 Microsoft [...]

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Facebook’s ‘Like’ button: Free speech?

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button: Free speech?

Recently, a federal judge in Virginia made an important ruling that could have a deep and lasting impact on Facebook users, and more importantly, the First Amendment.           Judge Raymond Jackson of Virginia ruled that six former employees of the Hampton, Va. Sherriff’s office, who were fired for hitting the “like” [...]

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Data recovery update for the week of 5/7/2012

Data recovery update for the week of 5/7/2012

Data Recovery may be needed for all kinds of reasons. Some possible examples are as diverse as hardware failure, accidental failure, corruptions in firmware, semiconductor failure, a storage device could have been dropped, a hard disk drive may have been ‘accidentally’ formatted…the reasons go on and on for why businesses sometimes lose data.     [...]

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May 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

May 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

Microsoft has released their Advanced Notification for the May 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday.  Microsoft is planning to release seven bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities.  In addition, they will be releasing a Security Advisory to update ActiveX killbits.  Last year, Microsoft moved the ActiveX killbit updates from a Security Bulletin to a Security Advisory.  So, you [...]

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