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Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure

Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure

By Adron Hall on July 5, 2013

Yesterday I received my X1 Carbon Touch from Amazon. First part of this whole adventure is that I sent it to my old address in one part of town so that led to a little sleuth action to track it down. After a short bike ride up the street I arrived and the office staff …

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Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged Apple, brick, broken, carbon, fail, great tech support, hardware, how-to, lenovo, linux, Microsoft Windows, My Updates, operating system, tech support, thinkpad, ubuntu, windows 8, x1

BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

By Ben Kepes on November 30, 2012

A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new paradigm where individuals within an organization supply their own devices (mobile,

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BYOA, BYOB, employment, future, hardware, ipad, organization | 1 Response

Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing

Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 20, 2012

Yesterday, under the shadows of OSCON 2012, Portland based cloud cost management company Cloudability ran a future of cloud fireside chat in which myself and fellow CloudAve blogger and Analyst Ben Kepes participated. The chat was moderated by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams. We discussed various topics and where the industry is heading. During our discussion, we […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged abstraction, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, cloud washing, cloudability, hardware, IBM, ibm puresystems, insights, oscon | 5 Responses

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

By Ben Kepes on December 1, 2011

I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor pitches and CloudWashing sessions and instead gather togteher some great customer success stories to tell the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, CloudBeat, data center, disaster recovery, hardware, Multitenancy, Replication (computer science), storage

No For Kno, Finally.  It Was DOA Anyway.

No For Kno, Finally. It Was DOA Anyway.

By Zoli Erdos on February 21, 2011

Boomtown reports Kno, makers of the flip-open dual tablet designed for the education market is planning to sell off the hardware business, and focus on software only. Says Kara Swisher: That’s because marketing a new and complex product like the Kno takes a lot of effort and cash, especially since it is an increasingly competitive […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged books, e-reader, hardware, ipad, kindle, kno, que, situational device, tablet

Containers, Computers and Catalan sunshine

Containers, Computers and Catalan sunshine

By Paul Miller on October 20, 2010

Image by dannybirchall via Flickr I took a quick trip to the Catalan city of Barcelona earlier this month; surely the first time I’ve been to that city without seeing the sea. I was there as a guest of HP, to hear some of the latest happenings in their storage business. Over two days, we […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged 3par, Arthur C Clarke, Barcelona, cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, hardware, Henry Ford, hewlett packard, hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, hp, HPCI, P9500, PODworks, Register

The Kno is Not a Tablet.  It’s a Workout Device

The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device

By Zoli Erdos on August 12, 2010

Seriously.  At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open, hold it vertically, just like this: … and tell me how long you could comfortably hold […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged books, e-reader, hardware, ipad, kindle, kno, que, situational device, tablet | 3 Responses

Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For?

Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For?

By Zoli Erdos on December 7, 2009

Time to re-evaluate just what we consider “good brands” vs. junk.  I could not resist the summer back-to-school discounts and upgraded two laptops – one of them is already making funny noises. Tired already?   It’s an HP.  Perhaps just a co-incidence –  but my desktop monster, just two years old has long been pretending it […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged amazon, asus, brands, computer failures, hardware, hp, laptop malfunctions, sony, windows 7 | 4 Responses

1984 or Panopticon

1984 or Panopticon

By Dan Morrill on August 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Zoli brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border: there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this always interesting is that with the modern cloud computing environment, all you really need is a computer to act as your […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud computing, google, google docs, hardware, North Korea, privacy, Security, United States, USA, zoho

Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves

Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves

By Zoli Erdos on November 14, 2008

How old is your work computer? – asks the Wall Street Journal. Mine is a year-and-a half old.  The dual-core former screamer (obviously not the one the the pic to the right) has become an average slow machine now that quad-core is the standard, but I could not care less.   I don’t need a faster, […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged computer upgrade, dual-core, gmail, google, hardware, laptop, mcafee, netbook, notebook, pc, quad-core, Security, virus-scan, web applications, zoho | 3 Responses

Yet Another Reason That Cloud Computing Will Win

By Ben Kepes on September 15, 2008

Fellow New Zealander, and veteran IT insider, Jim Donovan posted about a CIO Magazine article which discussed the increasing trend towards self provisioning of hardware within corporates. In the same way that company vehicles have largely been done away with and replaced with allowances to enable staff to purchase their own vehicles, so too are company supplied phones and […]

Posted in Design, Enterprise | Tagged hardware | 2 Responses

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