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        <title><![CDATA[One business user's migration from BlackBerry to Android]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's always a learning curve when transitioning from one technology to another. Read about one user's experience switching from BlackBerry to Android, which yielded some unexpected results.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Entice your employees to collaborate with eXo]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The eXo tool's social networking look and feel might encourage employees to use it for collaboration.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What the potential FTC investigation of Google means]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The FTC may be looking into some of Google's online advertising strategies. Find out why and what this could mean for Internet ads.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Seven apps that will help make IT pros more productive]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are ways IT pros can improve our own productivity by using applications, which will benefit you and the company you work for. Here are seven to look at.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-17T14:33:34Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Windows 8 Start Menu reimagined and reinvigorated]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With Start Menu Reviver you get the traditional functionality of the Start menu, but with a Windows 8 Modern UI look and feel.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Shultz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-06-14T18:41:21Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Five apps to make the Linux desktop business-ready]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With the right apps could Linux run your business desktop PCs? Jack Wallen thinks so.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-14T15:29:20Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A business-ready Linux desktop with just five apps]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With the right apps could Linux run your business desktop PCs? Jack Wallen thinks so.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-14T15:13:13Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How to prevent code rot]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Software developers call neglected code that stops working code rot. Chip Camden explains why this often occurs and how to avoid such trouble.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chip Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-06-14T00:58:26Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poll: Is the mass-adoption of Windows 8.x by businesses inevitable?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Great Debate on ZDNet about Windows 8.1 ignited a thought and a poll question that will surely lead to a discussion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-06-13T19:35:27Z</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Create professional looking, high quality graphic headings, logos, icons, and buttons in Windows 8.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-12T17:41:03Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cisco retires CCIE Voice but then rethinks it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cisco has announced the new cert standard for telecom, unified communications and video professionals. But this also means the retirement of the CCIE Voice certification.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[HP Proactive Care - Increasing Uptime by Preventing IT Problems]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/hp-proactive-care-increasing-uptime-by-preventing-it-problems/32900551]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Industry-standard x86-based IT environments are growing more complex and increasingly business-critical, yet many companies still rely on little more than product warranty or basic reactive support services to keep their IT up and running.  However, operating only in a break/fix mode increases the risk of not being able to meet customer and business obligations.  A far better approach is to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Turn risk management into your information advantage]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discover how financial institutions can utilize Intel-based HP AppSystems for SAP HANA to perform real-time, deep-dive analyses across enormous volumes of data to minimize risk while improving operational efficiencies.Sponsored by HP and Intel&amp;#174; Xeon&amp;#174; ProcessorsIntel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[HP Proactive Care - Increasing Uptime by Preventing IT Problems]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/hp-proactive-care-increasing-uptime-by-preventing-it-problems/32900551]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Industry-standard x86-based IT environments are growing more complex and increasingly business-critical, yet many companies still rely on little more than product warranty or basic reactive support services to keep their IT up and running.  However, operating only in a break/fix mode increases the risk of not being able to meet customer and business obligations.  A far better approach is to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Preparing the Datacenter for a New Age of Computing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Aligning IT with the goals of the business is top of mind for executives who need to understand how business plans, infrastructure, and people come together to impact business process. Convergence and virtualization are some of the most talked about technologies for helping align business goals because of their ability to create a dynamic infrastructure that can quickly adapt to business needs...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Power of Flexibility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Driven by unprecedented business demands, IT is expected to deliver more services and innovative solutions at record speed to an ever-widening global customer base. Meanwhile, high operational costs, a highly complex IT infrastructure, an explosion in big data usage and increased business and government mandates intensify data center management headaches.For IT management, top priorities for...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Changing the Rules of the Game]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A data center typically contains a heterogeneous mix of hardware and software products from a variety of vendors located all across the globe, making IT management a complex task -- from coordinating multiple vendor contracts to supporting different system, network and application requirements.  Factor in virtualization and the cloud, and management becomes even more complex.  To meet the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-12T07:00:00Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Seven keys to managing your business critical cloud]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/seven-keys-to-managing-your-business-critical-cloud/32900539]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s widely recognized that a well-run cloud provides you with flexible, fast, inexpensive, and secure access to IT resources. It enables your IT organization to dramatically improve service quality and the efficiency of resource utilization. But, while such benefits dominate the headlines, stories of major service outages are beginning to surface as more companies operate clouds. This paper...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>2013-06-12T07:00:00Z</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Flexible Support for Heterogeneous IT Environments]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Today, enterprises are more dependent on having robust, agile IT solutions than ever before. The move to virtualization and cloud technologies have helped address the need for agility and speed, but they can also be complex to operate. The reality is that you have multiple products from a variety of vendors in multiple places all around the world. And you need them to work together. Read on to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Learn how to use Puppet IT automation software, part three]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smbit/learn-how-to-use-puppet-it-automation-software-part-three/1360]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this installment in her Puppet Learning VM series, Lauren Malhoit provides examples on the Master/Agent workflow and a video tutorial on node definitions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Malhoit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-06-12T03:13:43Z</pubDate>
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