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Project Insight, online project management software, is assisting teams with keeping their projects on track during vacation season. With schools out for summer, many resources decide to take some time away from work. Project Insight's powerful resource management capabilities are helping organizations balance their resources' workloads while others are away on holiday. The graphical displays within the project management software make it easy for to effectively monitor the available resources' workloads and balance them accordingly. Many project teams have resources that span across more than just one department and project. Project Insight's resource allocation report can drill down to each project and task from a single view. When project and resource managers can keep an eye on what resource is working on what, teams will be able to turn more projects over efficie... (more)

Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2011

The Hype-Cycle for Emerging Technologies for the year 2011 has been released by Gartner. As has been the trend from the past less than 60% of the technologies listed last year find a place in this year’s report. Unlike last year, there are not many glaring omissions. (Here is an analysis of last year’s report). However, as is the case like last year, few technologies appear from nowhere on: Climbing the Slope Consumerization The trend for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business organizations (see this) QR/Color Code Quick ... (more)

Security Never Takes a Vacation

We’ve all seen the auto-out-of-office replies, ‘Thanks for your message but I’m out until I return – contact my boss/subordinate/someone else if you need or want anything.’  If you’ve emailed me over the last couple weeks, you’ve seen a similar note.  I took some time off, then participated in F5’s awesome Agility Conference for partners and customers and then took a few more days off.  I am challenged, like many of us, to avoid work, recharge and let the brain-drain occur while ‘out of the office.’  As humans, we need to escape from our daily grind to give the mind, body and s... (more)

DNSSEC: Is Your Infrastructure Ready?

A few months ago, we teamed with Infoblox for a DNSSEC webinar.  Jonathan George, F5 Product Marketing Manager, leads with myself and Cricket Liu of Infoblox as background noise.  He’s a blast as always and certainly knows his DNS.  So, learn how F5 enables you to deploy DNSSEC quickly and easily into an existing GSLB environment with BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM).  BIG-IP GTM streamlines encryption key generation and distribution by dynamically signing DNS responses in real-time.  Running time: 49:20   ps Resources: F5 Web Media F5 YouTube Channel BIG-IP GTM DNSSEC: The... (more)

Facebook Rates Tilera ‘Swell’

Guess Tilera can stop all the double-talk about whether or not Facebook - and the other major-league cloud companies - except the not-invented-here-enamored Google - are interested its newfangled proprietary many-core x86-compatible servers. Facebook has just publicly admitted it's been testing Tilera's last-generation widgetry and rated it the industry's best performance per watt - better than Intel at common data center apps and at running the fabled Memcached so important to Facebook et al. The social networking giant said Monday that Tilera servers are 4x better at performa... (more)