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Apple, mac mini
Apple Mac mini breakdown
Just found an interesting breakdown of the Apple Mac mini pricing based on the components included: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apples-600-Mac-Mini-Costs-It-Nearly-400-to-Make-Says-iSuppli-163404/?kc=rss This gives me some belief in Apple as a company, we all know companies are there to make money for shareholders, the fact that an external company can provide information to indicate that Apple’s pricing is fair based…
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Michael Brooke
30/06/2009
Citrix, Cloud, Quest, vWorkspace
Cloud computing to fly?
Cloud computing simply becomes another way to fragment and further complicate an already complicated IT infrastructure unless it is done properly and the organisation moving to hosted infrastructure understands exactly what they will receive. I see Cloud computing being excellent for the SME market where their internal IT resources may not be experts on subjects…
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Michael Brooke
25/06/2009
Articles
Organisational Storage considerations
This week I had a chance to spend two days with a proactive andforward thinking Storage team within a large organisation (I can'tprovide the customer name unfortunately). This customer had over 750 Terabyes of San storage across four EMCSymmetrix Sans, covering production and BCP copies of all configuredstorage.A real eye opener was the level of…
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Michael Brooke
21/06/2009
Bing, Google, Microsoft
Microsoft Bing vs Google
Microsoft Bing was released recently to limited fanfare, some tech sites raved about the quality of results while others had a more of a ‘We’ll see’ attitude. Interesting is that Google appears to be very worried about Bing, not ‘just’ standard worried but really very concerned http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42847/140/ and I understand why; http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ runs comparative searches…
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Michael Brooke
20/06/2009
Microsoft, Search, Xbox
Sort your product out Microsoft?
Finished reading an article on Microsoft and their new free virus scanning software, which is about to come out of beta and realised its just another case of a behemoth company that has no idea of marketing and brand. Link is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8095932.stm and in this article Microsoft are talking about the discontinuation of Live…
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Michael Brooke
13/06/2009
Citrix, Quest, Terminal services, VMware, vWorkspace
Virtualization to save my company money?
Working for a software vendor puts me in touch with many different customers every day, most looking to save money and looking to the market and vendors to provide them with the product to reduce cost. Unfortunately vendors want a customer to buy their products which makes them biased and not a wholly reliable /…
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Michael Brooke
11/06/2009
money, Recession
Recession, what is it good for?
Going shopping in the past several months has become a completely different experience to before the ‘recession’, retail parks used to be full on weekends and our local town Basingstoke was heaving with shoppers on both Saturdays and Sundays, shops didn’t discount except for end of season and end of line products. Recently I have…
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Michael Brooke
23/03/2009