Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
SaaS ITSM tools: Forrester delivers market overview
Selecting the right IT service management tool has never been easy, and software-as-a-service now adds an extra dimension of complexity. Forrester's SaaS ITSM Tool Market Overview covers the who, where and what.
Monday, 24 December 2012
Nature: 2012 Review of the Year
From the discovery of the Higgs boson to the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, 2012 was an eventful year in science. Nature's end of year round-up reviews the highs and lows in research and science policy. A great compilation.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Windows 8: The Official Review
Reviewing an operating system is an odd endeavor, because people don't really use operating systems; they use applications. The OS should be as transparent as possible, acting as a platform for applications. In today's cloud-driven world, however, the notion that your application will run in a single OS is tenuous at best. Toss in the increasing use of smart devices, whether phones or tablets, and the idea of a single-platform operating system is less relevant now than it was just a few years ago. These days we have "ecosystems"--Microsoft, Apple, or Google, take your pick.
Friday, 19 October 2012
A Hands-on Look at Windows Server 2012
Microsoft has invested a ton of time and money getting Windows Server 2012 to the finish line. The sheer number of new and improved features makes it challenging to cover them all in any level of detail. This review will attempt to highlight the most important new features and delve a little deeper into those that matter most.
Design principles for Windows Server 2012 were driven by the three key themes of continuous availability, cost efficiency and management efficiency. It's easy to see how these design principles drove many different parts of the operating system from the new Server Manager and its polished graphical user interface (GUI) to SMB 3.0 and the huge number of improvements to the file system.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Apple after Steve Jobs: 10 hits and misses
Oct. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death. During that time, Apple has had some amazing successes and some spectacular failures.
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