By Richard Arneson Who would have thought that by twisting fiber optics you could get speeds up to 100 times faster? Not me, but apparently engineers and researchers at Melbourne, Australia’s RMIT University thought it would. They wondered whether fiber, if twisted—or at least the light within it was twisted—could
By Richard Arneson We’ve all done it; you may do it every day. You pick up the phone to dial up service of some type, and tap into a call center. You may not even know you’ve entered that world, but you can usually tell. You’ve typed in your phone
By Richard Arneson Whether you call it IT staff augmentation or IT project outsourcing (they’re actually different in the event you’d like to read about it), there’s no question that the IT industry has adopted both in force. In the IT industry alone, the number of contracted, external technical professionals
By Richard Arneson If you need to purchase a container to hold what you’re estimating is between 48 and 60 ounces of liquid, are you going to buy the 50- or 70- ounce container? Yes, you’ll play it safe and get the bigger one, but you’ll spend more money and
By Richard Arneson It’s always confounded me that two (2) of the three (3) R’s of education―reading, writing and arithmetic—were spelled wrong. Whomever coined the phrase was obviously trying to set students up to fail at spelling. Thankfully, we work in an industry that understands the proper spelling of R
By Richard Arneson If your backyard is the size of Greenwich Village apartment, you probably wouldn’t buy a tractor with a mulching attachment to mow the lawn. The same holds true for technology solutions. Why should only the biggest of the biggies get to enjoy best-of-breed, cutting-edge technology solutions? And
By Richard Arneson Whether you’re looking to implement a virtualization strategy, or are in the market to replace your current solution, you’ve got a decision to make―which hypervisor should I purchase? Remember, hypervisors are basically a platform for VMs and abstract physical resources from host hardware, such as, among other
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