Whether public, private, or hybrid, cloud computing is becoming an increasingly integral part of many companies' business and technology strategy. Many companies want to be able to have pools of computing resources based on a self-service model where the company owns and operates those resources. With a private cloud model, these resources are standardized and automated.

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Seagate Slim 500 GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive for Mac (STCF500102) review Tue, Jun 18th 2013 1:16p Chris Miller This Seagate Slim 500 GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive for Mac (model STCF500102) is a great road warrior tool with it's slim and sleek design. Add in the social backup ability and it has become my external travel drive. You can head right over and grab one here Seagate sent the Slim 500GB drive for Mac over to get a field test and that is exactly what I did. The first noticeable thing is that the sleek design and small size make this the perfect travel USB backup and file drive. If it could hold u [read] Keywords: facebook laptop mac network security

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IBM Notes Domino 9 Social Edition versus Microsoft SharePoint 2013 competitive sales kit Mon, Jun 17th 2013 11:53a Chris Miller An IBM Notes and Domino 9 Social Edition versus Microsoft SharePoint 2013 competitive sales kit has been released by The Edison Group commissioned by IBM. It contains: an executive presentation slidedeck a sales guide document a battle card document a quick reference guide a link to a pubic YouTube videoI note the final bullet as public since the rest are isolated to IBM Business Partners only. Yes, you as the customer should go get a business partner or IBM rep to get you these as you fight th [read] Keywords: domino ibm notes microsoft sharepoint

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Kensington KeyCover Hard Shell Bluetooth KeyBoard Cover for iPad 2/3/4 (model K39785US) review Fri, Jun 14th 2013 9:06a Chris Miller I take a look at the Kensington KeyCover Hard Shell Bluetooth KeyBoard Cover for iPad 2/3/4 (model K39785US) http://idonot.es/kensingtonkeycover The Kensington keyboard was simple to connect to the Bluetooth on the iPad after fully charging it for first use. We found the key size acceptable since they put an entire QWERTY keyboard the same size as the iPad itself. The function keys were well labeled to show the excellent capabilities they built into the function keys. As the video shows, w [read] Keywords:

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IBM Notes Social Edition Cheat Sheet Thu, Jun 13th 2013 9:52a Chris Miller [read] Keywords: domino ibm notes

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TP-Link Wireless N150 Nano Travel Router (TL-WR702N) review Wed, Jun 12th 2013 9:59a Chris Miller The TP-Link N150 Nano Travel Router (model TL-WRT702N) is a perfect travel sized router, bridge, access point (AP) and repeater all in one tiny device. The TL-WR702N from TP-Link has now replaced it's big brother in my travel arsenal. The small design makes it the perfect travel companion. Once you understand how to log into the management screens, which I cover below, changing the settings is easy. The device uses the serial number as part of the access point name as well as the pas [read] Keywords: admin network password wireless

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IBM Sametime gets 3D with OLIVE from Forterra Tue, Jun 11th 2013 9:46a Chris Miller Forterra Systems has updated their OLIVE system to 2.2 which includes IBM Sametime support for their virtual 3D meeting worlds. OLIVE stands for On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment. Here is what the system looks like from one example The software claims to reduce costs even more with the media sharing services and audio capabilities. Sametime already has native audio and video meeting services so that can't be right. Now streaming a movie file is an added benefit, but I imagine thi [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm lotus sametime enterprise unified communications

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Gamification as explained by Dilbert Mon, Jun 10th 2013 10:20a Chris Miller Dilbert explains the meaning of gamification in the enterprise a few weeks ago. By Scott Adams View the original posting here [read] Keywords: enterprise

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Setting auto-status change preferences in Sametime via policy Fri, Jun 7th 2013 12:56p Chris Miller Have you wanted to set your Sametime Connect client, embedded or stand-alone, auto-status change preferences via a policy? Well you can not. This is a shortcoming in Sametime policies. For Sametime Connect clients you can use the Sametime policies to set and enforce a few preferences. In the embedded Sametime client inside of IBM Notes you also rely heavily on the Notes client preferences dialog. While I can manually go in and set these on my IBM Notes client, there is no Desktop poli [read] Keywords: domino ibm ldd lotus notes notes client policies sametime desktop wiki

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IBM Collaboration Solutions community sunsets - now The Social Lounge Wed, Jun 5th 2013 6:19p Chris Miller Annnounced on June 4th, the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community is being sunset and moved to The Social Lounge. What this means is that IBM is moving their own ICS community from the IBM Connections environment on Lotus Greenhouse to the IBM Connections environment on SocialBizUg. Notice: As of June 4, 2013, the IBM Collaboration Solutions community is being transitioned toThe Social Lounge in the Social Business User Group community. Please register at SocialBizUG.org to continue participa [read] Keywords: collaboration connections ibm lotus archive community

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Kango Gift for IBM Connections Tue, Jun 4th 2013 7:17a Chris Miller Kango Gift has created embeddable widgets for IBM Connections that allow people to give you gift cards as employee recognition from their cloud based platform. First, how does Kango Gift make their money? You can either choose a free plan, up to 25 users, and only pay a small fee for each gift card. Or you can pick the company plan for $2/user a month plus the small fees associated with giving the cards. The small per gift fee is not disclosed anywhere I can find on the site. I was not [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus enterprise widgets