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According to reports, Commodore is about to release a retro-styled Windows 7 PC based on the classic early 1980s Commodore 64 home PC. In celebration of those early days of personal computing, CIO UK asked IT leaders to remember the computers they learned what eventually became their trade on.
If you have any fond memories of the PC you first learned the art of computing on, do share them with us.
"I learned to program at home on a Commodore Vic20, while I was working. It got me an opening on the IT team and my career started there."
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Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. The tools, building blocks, solutions, and best practices for cloud computing are evolving and challenges to deploying cloud solutions need to be considered.
iPads are the must-have fad. Android is the rising mobile platform -- Everywhere you turn, the news is about personal, smart, mobile devices and their impact on business and on IT.
Broadly, there are two ways to think of Big Data technologies. The first is as an extension of what many organisations are already doing with business analytics. Gaining insight from business information is something that has been happening for decades, but the challenges and opportunities are now greater than ever before.
The majority of organisations have already implemented server virtualisation and most intend to implement additional server virtualisation during the next year. The primary factors driving the movement to deploy server virtualisation are cost savings and the ability to dynamically provision and move VMs among physical servers. There are however, a number of significant challenges associated with server virtualisation.
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