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AMD, a chip designer, is now pushing a lot of money into Ciinow, a cloud-based game streaming firm.

The Code Curmudgeon Arthur Hicken sums up this week's launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet range, measures it against the competition and cautions against use of the term "iPad killer".

A recent paper on distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks by Neustar concludes that only cloud-based DDoS solutions offer a comprehensive defence against increasing attacks that are expected to surge by as much as 40% in 2012.

Do you know your PUE? Power Usage Effectiveness is rapidly becoming the number to know. In the past, datacenter managers were simply asked to provide enough space, power and cooling to support the IT equipment. Now, the same managers are being asked to do it efficiently. PUE can be a helpful benchmark.

Britt Cooper comes down in support of colocation over managed hosting...

In many parts of the country – and the world – changing seasons can mean thunderstorms. And thunderstorms lead to lightning strikes and power outages. These are a particular challenge to those tasked with protecting IT equipment and especially servers.

With the plethora of new mobile devices constantly coming out, consumers are bombarded with geek-speak on which ones are best. From the geeks perspective it’s all about the specs. And geeks buy new things all the time just to keep up with the latest. The funny thing about the geek method is that they mistakenly think they’re getting the best thing, because the numbers are there, and as we all know, numbers don’t lie! And there’s the rub – hardware specs are not an indication of system performance.
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As people start to buy iPhones and iPads there is a migration occurring. A diaspora if you will from the Microsoft hegemony. Since I’ve been using Macs for about 10 years, people frequently ask me about making the move. I thought it might be helpful to encapsulate some of the questions and answers here.