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Enterprise Storage: IT's Next Revolution February 15, 2012 
Enterprise storage is currently in the midst of a great transformation the likes of which have not been seen in well over two decades. There's been an unprecedented amount of activity in the storage space this year, with a host of promising new companies launching and major storage vendors beginning to drastically retool their architectures.
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gThumb Nimbly Shuffles Through Images and Video February 15, 2012 
gThumb is one of the best image viewer and browser applications available for the GNOME Desktop. I particularly like its adeptness in handling both still photography and videos. That is an unusual pairing for an image viewer on any platform. You are not likely to find this combination, or at least one that works so seamlessly, in other image viewers.
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Cache as Cache Can: New SSD Options Boost Performance February 14, 2012 
Last week saw a pair of announcements by major vendors that reflect the degree to which solid state disk or flash caching technologies are moving into the mainstream: 1) IBM announced several key enhancements to its latest XIV Gen3 solutions; and 2) EMC announced VFCache, a new server flash caching solution that increases throughput by 3X while reducing latency by 60 percent.
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Federal IT Reform: It's All About Virtualization February 14, 2012 
Federal agencies charged with improving the efficiency of information technology operations are embracing data consolidation, the cloud and mobile devices. One of the major factors involved in these efforts is the use of virtualization technologies that enhance the productivity of computer operating systems. Federal agencies are now under the gun to drastically reduce the number or government data centers.
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Open APIs Are the New Open Source February 14, 2012 
We've seen the rise of open source software in the enterprise and also beyond the IT industry, but the real keys to openness and its advantages in today's technology world -- where efficient use of cloud computing and supporting services are paramount -- exist in open application programming interfaces, or APIs.
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Apple Tells MacBook Pro to Lose a Few February 13, 2012 
Apple is reportedly planning a substantial design overhaul for its MacBook Pro line. The company's next generation of high-end laptop computers will be thinner, lighter notebooks that closely resemble MacBook Airs and feature extended battery life. Traditional hard drives will be replaced with flash-memory-based solid-state drives.
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iBooks Author Lets You Build Astounding Texts February 13, 2012 
In my mind, the most important element of any software application is the ability to make users feel empowered, as if they can act on information, make changes, or best yet, create. Apple's new iBooks Author application for Mac OS X lets you create -- so much so that I actually believe that I could write an awesome iBook textbook myself.
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The Day Canonical Pushed Kubuntu Out of the Nest February 13, 2012 
Linux fans have had a hard enough time watching the ongoing woes of Mandriva in recent months, so when the news hit last week that Kubuntu was under threat as well, it just felt like too much. "Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04," wrote developer Jonathan Riddell in
a message to Kubuntu developers.
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Is GDrive Ready to Come Out of Its Shell? February 10, 2012 
Google may soon launch a paid cloud storage service called "Drive," five years after it first came up with the idea. Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google's servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device, according to a report.
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Storage Tech Sizzles With Hot, Hot Hard Drives February 09, 2012 
An international team of researchers led by the University of York in England has demonstrated fast data recording on hard drives using heat. They used an ultra-short pulse of heat to reverse the poles in a ferrimagnet in order to write the data.
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The Trouble With Mandriva February 09, 2012 
Now that Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Mint are enjoying such widespread attention and success, it's increasingly difficult to remember that not all distros are sharing in the same good fortune. Take Mandriva, for example. This venerable distro dates back to 1998, when it was born as Mandrake Linux, but its last few years have been tempestuous.
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Radio Tray: Tiny Web Radio Player Is Handy but Picks Up Some Static February 08, 2012 
If you spend a lot of time at your keyboard, no doubt you dabble a lot in listening to Internet radio. Radio Tray is a relatively new Linux app that can make tuning in to your favorite radio stations a new experience. Radio Tray is a streaming player for online radio that sits on the Linux desktop panel. Think of this app as a shortcut that hides the browser interface.
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AMD: Shift Happens February 06, 2012 
Last week was the coming-out party for AMD's new CEO, and his core message was that the market was undergoing a shift -- and when markets shift, leadership changes. His point was that Intel's leadership was at risk and that AMD was poised to take over that leadership. The nature of this change is massive, and I doubt we -- I mean any of us -- are fully aware of how much is changing.
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Building the Data Center on Small Victories February 06, 2012 
You don't need to go very far in IT nowadays to find people who are diligently working to do more with less, even as they're working to transform and modernize their environments. One way to keep the interest high and those operating and investment budgets in place is to show fast results, and then use that to prime the pump for even more improvement -- and even more funding -- with perhaps even growing budgets.
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Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire? February 06, 2012 
Now that webOS is making its merry way along the open road, there's no telling what tablets or other mobile devices it may inspire over the upcoming months. In the meantime, the Linux world is all abuzz over what promises to be the very first fully open tablet out there: the Spark, a device slated to ship in May from none other than the KDE Plasma Active community itself.
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Leaked Info Offers Glimpse of WinPho's Muscular Future February 03, 2012 
Microsoft is overhauling Windows Phone 8, which is still in development, to make it more competitive with market leaders iOS and Android, according to leaked information. The mobile OS will add support for multicore processors, up to four new screen resolutions, and removable microSD card storage. It will also support near-field communications, the technology that enables e-wallets.
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