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	Preston Gralla: Five reasons the Google Nexus beats the iPad The iPad may be king of the tablets when it comes to sales, but for most uses, the Google Nexus tablet is a better choice. Here are five reasons the new Google Nexus beats the iPad. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Sharon Machlis: Nexus 7 tablet: Video and first impressions Patrick Thibodeau: Will Stockton's IT department survive bankruptcy? Richi Jennings: hi1.4xlarge: AWS SSD EC2 High I/O Quadruple Extra Large (and a Dr Pepper) Shark Tank: See, this is what we call a learning experience WEBCAST: IBM Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance In this webcast you'll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. Register Now Sharon Machlis: Nexus 7 tablet: Video and first impressions My production-unit Nexus 7 arrived Tuesday; here are some early impressions: Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Will Stockton's IT department survive bankruptcy? Before bankruptcy, Stockton, Calif.'s IT department had its share of problems. Now that the city is officially insolvent, does it have a chance of fixing them? Stockton is the largest city in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy, but there's a long list of municipalities struggling with unfunded pensions, declining property tax revenue, high unemployment and surging levels of crime. In 2008, Stockton had 52 people in its IT department. It now has 36, according to its budget. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. Richi Jennings: hi1.4xlarge: AWS SSD EC2 High I/O Quadruple Extra Large (and a Dr Pepper) Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is crowing about its super-fast, SSD-backed, hi1.4xlarge AWS EC2 instance type. Its full name is quite a mouthful: High I/O Quadruple Extra Large, but Amazon claims it can achieve 120,000 IOPS. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers scrape together $3.10 to try it for an hour. Read More Shark Tank: See, this is what we call a learning experience Pilot fish runs some network cable throughout Grandpa's house to support the new streaming video service he's paying for. But months later, while the grandkids are visiting Grandpa, fish gets a panicked call at work: The network has stopped working. Read More
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