Eagle Point announced recently AutoCAD Civil 3D will become its development platform. It seems like a no-brainer given the obvious benefits of migrating from traditional 2D design solutions to 3D design solutions.

Continuation from Top Trends in ERP for 2010 Part III 9.            SaaS is probably the most significant non-ERP trend to look forward to. There isn’t much growth for ERP in regards to cloud computing but there is anticipated growth in application hosting.

Disable TCP Fusion Getting NetBackup status code 23’s?  How about status code’s 24, 25, or 53?  Maybe you just have the occasional status code 50’s?  Chances are you have TCP Fusion enabled. TCP Fusion has caused many issues with NetBackup as it performs flow control while utilizing blocking I/O sockets.  With that said, I recommend everyone disable TCP Fusion if they are using NetBackup. In order to disable TCP Fusion you can utilize one of two ways to do so. OPTION 1: NON- PERSISTENT

1. Make sure there are no backups or restores running

Kansas City is known for barbeque, early bebop jazz and the football team, the Chiefs. Although the Chiefs’ glory days in football are for the moment distant memories, in their heyday the Chiefs figured in what is still one of the most famous plays in the NFL’s Super Bowl era:  65 Toss Power Trap. The play, immortalized by Steve Sabol of NFL Films and Kansas City’s voluble coach, Hank Stram, became a signature moment because Sabol convinced Stram that a live mike on one of the head coaches on the sidelines during the game would be a great idea.

So we have identified and admitted to the problem. Now, let’s approach addressing it. One of the first tasks we need to do when taking on a “Cyber Hoarding” issue is to identify the extent of the problem.

Think way back to elementary school for a few seconds. What was the best part of the day? That’s easy. Recess. That hour-long break was the best part of any school day. The fresh air, the playground, and the best part of all – kickball. Flash forward to present day now. Kickball is making a comeback in a big way. Here in the DC area in the spring time, the National Mall is filled with kickball games every night. Baseball fields around the area are now kickball fields.

The need to pursue your stated agency/departmental goal has never been more intense. You are asked to do more with less. That is why it is imperative in these times of tightening budgets that you are able to use creative ways to purchase the software that you need while staying within budget.

Finally, a company has seen the light and offered an affordable, entry-level data deduplication offering that doesn’t have IT Managers counting pennies or Systems Administrators pulling their hair out!  Quantum is one of the storage industry leaders in data deduplication, having helped pioneer the technology in their disk based DXi offerings (see dedupe 101 video here).  Now they have presented a disk-based deduplication offering that focuses on the SMB a

There is a little hoarder in all of us.  One night I was captivated by a show called ‘Hoarders’ I saw on the cable channel.  For those not familiar, this show chronicles the lives of individuals from all walks of life, from every class, from every race, and from every culture, that are caught up in a recurring pattern of collecting and holding on to “stuff”. Do not get me wrong- there is no judgment here.  “One person’s junk, is another person treasure.”  That is unless you are a spouse who is fed up with the junk (or treasure) collecting.  Or if you are a storage administrator try

Growing up, Greg Lauter was never the kid with the lemonade stand on the corner: He was the one who developed the logo and the sign (and the brand) for the lemonade stand.