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An 8 minute clip on how to use Google Wave. I especially like the live auto-translator robot!

For those of you in the know about the meaning behind “Without Wax” in the English language, here is an excellent review of the newest version of Mac OSX, Snow Leopard. OS 10.6 offers much in the way of increased speed and efficiency, and not so much in the way of bloat or unnecessary features. [...]

I was trying to decide on what the most basic reason should be for an SMB to adopt cloud computing. Cost savings is always good, but you can shave costs other ways as well, and sometimes it may actually come out slightly more expensive to go into the cloud. Being able to start small and [...]

Apple must have decided on an early Christmas for all of us. While originally slated to release around the end of September, Apple has just announced (yes its official and on the main Apple website) that the much anticipated Snow Leopard will be available this Friday, August 28. I have been waiting for this for [...]

I was reading an interesting article that dealt with the future of computing. In it, one sentence modified and old agage and said “recession is the mother of invention.” That inspired me to write a post that expanded on that thought and put a little perspective on it. Don’t cast stones when I say this, [...]

From the Microsoft Blog:
This is one of those posts where I’m truly excited to be writing. I get to tell you when Windows 7 will be on store shelves! According to input from customers and partners we’ve made a lot of progress with Windows 7.
Our milestone-to-milestone approach for Windows 7 is built on a great [...]

Let me preface this by saying that I have been a 3PAR evangelist since I first laid hands on the unit. It has been a love affair that I carry to this day. I am a person who loves excellent engineering, and as such, 3PAR really shines in my portfolio of IT solutions. I have [...]

Here is a short video about how Sun Microsystems helped the University of Alabama Health System reduce the time physicians spent logging in and out of various desktops, centralize medical applications and deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. This new VDI technology is the wave of the future. VDI with thin clients reduces desktop procurement and [...]

If you head over to the Canonical blog at http://blog.canonical.com/?p=110, you can read about a recent survey by Redmonk analyst group that illustrates the extent to which Ubuntu server has penetrated the enterprise server market. Although to most of us Ubuntu users out there, it is no surprise that Ubuntu server is all over the [...]