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Solid-state disk lackluster for laptops, PCs
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Olympic tech's winners and losers
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Five insane upgrades that you should never do (and how to do them!)
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Not All USB Drives Are Created Equal
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Ultraportable laptops: Their rise and possible fall
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Here are 15 devices and add-ons that make the back-to-school computing experience extraordinary. As Facebook-like apps infiltrate the enterprise, they're integrating the workforce in unforeseen ways. If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money. The latest iteration of Asus' groundbreaking mini-notebook adds a faster CPU, a larger display and a better keyboard.

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Business Transaction Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments (Source: Optier) The evolution of complex, multi-tier IT environments poses a growing number of virtualization management challenges, consequently hampering an organization's ability to monitor and control application performance effectively across the physical and virtual layers. Business Transaction Management (BTM) focuses on business transactions as the focal point for managing applications. BTM increases operational efficiency by tracking, prioritizing and providing granular visibility into every transaction across virtual and dynamic IT environments. Discover how organizations have also utilized BTM to enhance capacity planning, application performance management and SOA. Dynamic Capacity Management for Virtualized Environments Five Technologies Simplifying Infrastructure Management Cut Data Center Energy Costs Case Study- Pomona Valley Medical Center Case Study- Time Warner Cable of New York Powering Change in the Data Center Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business Qualified Security Assessors are not created equal Improving Correspondence Management for Financial Services Firms with Adobe LiveCycle ES Archiving Compliance with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats Solution Brief: Reduce Energy Costs Intercept Spam & Viruses Ninja: Total Email Security Deploying Virtualized NetWare on Linux Whitepaper Toward More Flexible, Next-Generation Collaboration Solutions Discover How You Can Easily Manage the Mac in Your Enterprise Best Practices for integrating the Mac into Your Enterprise How the Mac is Becoming an IT Standard in the Enterprise HP StorageWorks Virtualization More White Papers

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