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This Week on Tom's IT Pro: 8/31/12

By James Alan Miller August 31, 2012 6:07 PM
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This Week on TIP: VMworld, Virtualization, Server Processors, IT Love/Hates, Laptop Memory, Cloud Computing, HR and Analytics Software, Google Apps, BYOD,  Storage, Supercomputers, Convergence, and more. 

Google has quietly been working on making Google Apps much more attractive for use on mobile devices. 

AMD's server business was hit hard in the second quarter, while Intel appeared to have picked up market share. 

Companies extend relationship to develop products that cater specifically to VMware's latest vCloud Suite. 

Second quarter sales for factory servers dropped 4.8 percent over Q2 2011 to $12.6 billion. 

IBM makes strong move into the talent management market with the acquisition of Wayne, PA-based Kenexa. 

British server vendor Codethink announces an ARM-based server that provides 64 processing cores per 1U space. 

IBM launches new zEnterprise EC12 mainframe that targets cloud and enterprise big data processing.

BYOD is a trend that is an accelerating trend that is worth paying attention to. 

HP supporting the just announced VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 through its Converged Cloud services. 

Dell is joining the wave of announcements coming out of VMworld this week. 

DataCore announced at VMworld that its storage virtualization software SANsymphony-V is now certified as VMware Ready. 

Introduces new version of its cloud infrastructure and management software vCloud Suite. 

Tom's IT Pro Tech Editor answers questions about the site and this week's VMworld virtualization show. 

Will soon be adding SATA 6Gb versions of its Disk-on-Modules (DOM) to its existing line of SATADOM-SSDs.

Chip designer sampling Epiphany IV processor with 64 cores. The chip is produced in 28 nm at Globalfoundries. 

Duall-slot and single-slot, server graphics cards for compute, VDI and workstation graphics deployments in data centers. 

Discounted Sentinel DX4000 Small Office Storage server includes a year’s worth of Western Digital Guardian Pro support for free. 

Join us for a journey from the 1940s to today as we present some of the most important server processors ever released. 

Application details a network intrusion detection strategy using a dedicated network processor and a parallel pattern detection engine. 

Desktop virtualization company's Apex 2.0 to caters to VMWare's upcoming support of shared physical GPUs in VMware View. 

Facebook has a reputation to be the biggest waste of our time these days. 

Chassis Plans, a server vendor known for its military grade systems, has announced a rugged 5U GPU server that can be run in the harshest environments. 

SAP is moving deeper into the field of social analytics. 

Research in Motion is spending quite a bit of time lately ramping up the pitch for Blackberry 10 (BB10). 

New switches are designed to work with latest PowerEdge servers with integrated 10 GbE connectivity, as well as EqualLogic and Compellent 10 GbE storage arrays. 

IaaS provider launches public cloud-as-a-service as an alternative to Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud. 

AWS is looking to eradicate tape-based backup and archiving with the release of Amazon Glacier. 

New PX-Series Solid State Drives combine high performance NAND flash technology and robust capacities.

The good and bad of working in a big IT shop. 

IT admins will soon be getting news about AMD's sixth-generation Opteron processor, code-named Abu Dhabi. 

Canonical has just issued its next long-term service release of its Linux distribution.

Microsoft offering release candidate of Windows Server 2012 Essentials targeted at small businesses for download. 

Amazon has launched Provisioned IOPS for Amazon Elastic Block Store for predictable high performance in I/O intensive workloads. 

Take a spin through the recent memory options, learn their respective advantages, and see how to install your own memory upgrade for better performance. 

Microsoft has "flattened" the corporate structure of its server and tools product group with six employees getting new titles. 

Hosting company Rackspace has recently rebranded itself with a new tag line. 

Sprint has signed up as the next significant reseller of Microsoft's Office 365. 

Results of a recent VMmark benchmark indicate an acceleration in the virtualization performance race. 

Survey an increasing interest in cloud computing among government agencies. 

If rogue IT projects could be beneficial, should they be supported or even encouraged?

If you’re already moving up in your current position, keep climbing there and get more schooling and certification under your belt.

Productivity apps are still a sore spot on tablets. 

Results of consulting firm Bluewolf's survey concludes that IT departments are on a pace to increase their expenses for outsourcing. 

Transitioning more Postini features to  Apps in an effort to meet the security standards of its business customers. 

Recommending software upgrades to versions 9.5.2 of Acrobat Reader and 10.1.4 of Acrobat X. 

Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub to enable organizations to adopt cloud solutions at an accelerated pace. 

Microsoft is expanding its server virtualization product support.

There will be some road blocks ARM will have to clear as it moves into servers. 

Honeywell releases a switch that can be used to wirelessly turn on or off industrial switch equipment. 

Applied Math  has released the fourth generation of its data center design software CoolSim.

James Alan MillerJames Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.

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