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• Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2: Five things to know

  By Brad Reed | 14 February, 2012 05:45

  Samsung's sequel to the Galaxy Tab will make its public debut next month and you may be wondering what separates it from all the other Android tablets on the market.

• Cisco's John Stewart on the latest security threats … and what enterprises can do to fight back

  By Susan Perschke | 14 February, 2012 03:17

  Freelance writer Susan Perschke recently sat down with Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart for an in-depth discussion of the state of enterprise security.

• F5 gear bought to optimize WAN also helps with VDI

  By Tim Greene | 14 February, 2012 02:20

  Distribution Management Inc. bought F5's Big-IP Gateway to handle WAN optimization, but it turns out the platform solved a string of problems that cropped up when the company deployed VMware virtual desktop infrastructure, too.

• Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch

  By Ann Bednarz | 13 February, 2012 22:26

  Hadoop is coming out of the shadows and into production in IT shops that are drawn to its ability to store, process and analyze extremely large volumes of data. But the relative newness of the open-source platform and a shortage of experienced Hadoop talent [link to sidebar TK] pose technical challenges that enterprise IT teams need to address.

• First Look: Cisco Cius

  By Tom Henderson | 13 February, 2012 16:22

  We had a chance to see the Cius tablet at a Cisco office in Boston, and while we weren't able to bring it back to our own lab and pound on it, we did get a pretty good feel for what the Cius is and what it isn't.

• NeuroSky MindWave: Fun with Brainwaves

  By Mark Gibbs | 10 February, 2012 11:29

  In last week's Gearhead I discussed, in part, the science of electroencephalography or EEG … the detection and measurement of the neurological activity of the brain via electrodes attached to a subject's scalp.

• Microsoft details 'Windows on ARM' program

  By Tim Greene | 10 February, 2012 10:35

  Microsoft is fencing off a piece of Windows 8 called Windows on ARM (WOA) that is designed specifically for deployment on devices with low-power ARM processors - such as tablets and that has capabilities customized to that environment.

• Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

  By Tim Greene | 09 February, 2012 03:29

  European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

• Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else

  By John Cox | 02 November, 2011 21:33

  We debated whether to call this piece "iPad vs. Motorola Xoom" or "iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" or whatever the Android tablet du jour is. But really it's still "iPad vs Everything Else."

• Hands-on review: Xoom battles iPad 2 to a draw

  By Wayne Rash | 16 March, 2011 05:44

  We got our hands on the two hottest products in the tablet computing market -- the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2 and put them to the test. This was a 15-round heavyweight fight and in the end, the Xoom stood toe to toe with the reigning champ, iPad 2.

• Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

  By Julie Bort | 09 March, 2011 03:31

  Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.

• Android 3.0 tablet: Five key features

  By Brad Reed | 28 January, 2011 03:36

  Tablet application developers can rejoice now that Google has released its software development kit for Android 3.0, the new edition of the platform designed specifically for tablets.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• NASs for the masses

  By David Newman | 27 September, 2010 15:05

  Either because server disks are full or because virtualization is a natural growth path, organizations large and small are moving toward shared storage. For large enterprises, high-capacity storage-area networks make sense, but what about small or mid-sized enterprises new to shared storage?

• Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 August, 2010 10:41

  IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it.