5 Hidden Costs of Networked Storage

When it comes to deciding which storage to go with, most IT considers disk space, connection type, and most of all, Purchase cost.

There are five hidden costs, by most of the customers I’ve met in the local market, they pay attention and consider the first two, which are:

• System scalability
• Maintenance and service fees

But most of them do not give much credit for the other three:

• Software licensing
• Complexity
• Application and data availability

Top 10 mistakes made by SharePoint 2010 administrators -- by Benjamin Athawe

1. Not having "SharePoint" in your job title.
2. Creating too many Web applications.
3. Making changes in IIS manually.
4. Failing to use the SharePoint solutions framework.
5. Inadvertently installing a standalone server.
6. Using the default SQL DB growth settings.
7. Failing to document the farm configuration.
8. Manually changing SharePoint databases to "fix" things.
9. Believing that PowerShell is only for developers.
10. Disregarding SharePoint capacity planning recommendations.

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Chrome enhancements

Google is offering a new incremental garbage collector for its Chrome browser to "dramatically" improve the interactive performance of Web applications

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HP, Dell and IBM adopt the AMD Interlagos Chip

Top server makers Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM are refreshing server lines with the new AMD Opteron chips, which include between four and 16 cores. Code-named "Interlagos", the new chips are 25 percent to 30 percent faster than their predecessors, the 12-core Opteron 6100 chips.

An article about Windows 8: The 10 biggest problems so far

For two months now, early adopters, IT pros, and developers have been working extensively with the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Here are the 10 of the biggest pain points they've found, Microsoft's reaction and some easy fixes!

The 10 biggest problems so far 

Huawei buys out Symantec's share Huawei Symantec

Huawei Technologies will buy out the rest of a joint venture with Symantec for $530 million, the companies announced on Monday.

Huawei Symantec Technologies, is based in Hong Kong, was formed in 2008 to integrate Symantec storage and security software into appliances built with Huawei's telecommunications equipment expertise. Symantec owns 49 percent of Huawei Symantec Technologies, while Huawei holds 51 percent.

After the sale, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012, Symantec will receive royalties from Huawei for seven years for the technologies it contributes to the appliances.

Huawei Symantec products exists in the Libyan Market , I've seen it in LTT datacenter. It was installed and used by Huawei.