Alan Shimel

Articles by Alan Shimel

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Jailbreaking: Don’t blame the player, blame the game

Jailbroken devices being banned in BYOD policies are wrong
By Alan Shimel
Jun 1, 2012 6 mins
Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone
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Open Source BlackBerry: RIM’s Last Resort

Open source offers last best hope to once-proud RIM.
By Alan Shimel
May 31, 2012 3 mins
Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone
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Big Data and NoSQL Still Hot With 10gen Raising $42m

10gen with MongoDB want to be the next billion-dollar open source company
By Alan Shimel
May 29, 2012 2 mins
Big Data Data Center Open Source
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Open Source Adoption Lagging in Southeast Asia, Showing Signs of Hope

Does the culture discourage open source?
By Alan Shimel
May 25, 2012 4 mins
Data Center Enterprise Applications Open Source
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Steve Hanna Of Juniper Networks And Trusted Computing Group On BYOD Standards

Distinguished engineer discusses an open standards approach to BYOD security
By Alan Shimel
May 17, 2012 1 min
Open Source Small and Medium Business Smartphones
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Is The Jailbreak Community Contaminated By Leeches?

Open source communities sometimes behave in a similar fashion
By Alan Shimel
May 15, 2012 4 mins
Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone
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Database In The Cloud: Which Option Is Best?

NoSQL, MySQL, PosgreSQL. So many DBs, so little time
By Alan Shimel
May 11, 2012 2 mins
Databases Open Source Oracle
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The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up

Stopping the hidden tax that stifles innovation
By Alan Shimel
May 8, 2012 8 mins
Apple Facebook Small and Medium Business
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Basho’s Declaration Of Independence: All Nodes Are Created Equal

Makers of open source Riak move beyond database into cloud storage and control
By Alan Shimel
May 7, 2012 2 mins
Data Center Enterprise Applications Open Source
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Now Yahoo Declares Patent War On Open Source

Latest salvo in Facebook suit claims Memcached is Yahoo's
By Alan Shimel
May 7, 2012 2 mins
Facebook Open Source Unified Communications

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Cisco exec testifies at US Senate panel on AI’s network impact

By Michael Cooney
7 mins
Network SecurityNetworking DevicesWireless Security
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Nvidia’s next move? Financing AI

By Andy Patrizio
4 mins
Artificial IntelligenceFinancial Services IndustryMarkets
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AMD unveils AI GPU to challenge Nvidia’s Rubin

By Andy Patrizio
3 mins
Artificial IntelligenceCPUs and Processors
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Has the hype around ‘Internet of Things’ paid off? | Ep. 145

36 mins
IoT PlatformsIoT Security
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podcast

Episode 1: Understanding Cisco’s Converged SDN Transport

20 mins
Cisco SystemsInternetNetworking
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Episode 2: Pluggable Optics and the Internet for the Future

17 mins
Cisco SystemsComputers and PeripheralsInternet
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Master Linux Math with the bc Command | Easy CLI Calculations Explained!

1 mins
Operating Systems
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Master Linux Math in Seconds: How to Use the expr Command Like a Pro

1 mins
Operating Systems
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How to Do Math in the Command Line Using Double Parentheses

1 mins
Operating Systems
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