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This executive-floor user calls newbie pilot fish to complain that her monitor has mysteriously gone blank. Can fish help her recover what she was working on?

The new method of optimizing IT takes a more holistic view of problems and leverages innovations in technologies and services to increase efficiency and get better return on existing assets. This in turn enables IT management to combine the budgets of multiple projects to provide better purchasing power, and through innovations such as virtualization or cloud computing, provide data services at commodity prices.

The floor above this server room is being renovated, and the construction guys upstairs have found a very efficient way of dealing with the debris.

Matt Asay, well-known open-source leader and Alfresco VP, has moved over to Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company.

This net admin pilot fish shares his last name with an engineer at his company, so it's no surprise when he receives an e-mail message from a high-ranking manager, thanking the engineers for their hard work. But fish figures this time he'll have a little fun.

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In one of the departments this pilot fish serves, there's a user whose laptop has more peripherals then USB ports. The obvious solution: Have him order a USB hub. What could go wrong with that plan?

Microsoft has confirmed a thoroughly revolting vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer. It means that bad guys can read your files remotely. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers panic and pray for patches. Not to mention embracing life...
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User calls this help desk pilot fish, saying that he has deleted a file and needs it back. But that's about all he knows about it.

Pilot fish is fed up with manually dealing with backup problems -- resetting the daemons database and replacing the tape in the autoloader before he can rerun a failed backup. Fortunately, it looks like there's a simple solution.

President Barack Obama's administration is cutting NASA's moon mission funding. His budget plan for reducing the deficit kills the Constellation, Ares, and Orion programs, but opens the door to private enterprise. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what it all means. Not to mention Facebook (you're doing it wrong)...

Net admin pilot fish is walking through the office one day when he comes across a user who's on the phone -- and screaming at a support tech halfway across the country.

A charismatic leader stands up and addresses the expectant faithful in the San Francisco Bay Area. No, not Steve Jobs' Apple iPad announcement, but Larry Ellison's unveiling of the Oracle/Sun strategy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers discover what it means for Solaris, Java, SPARC, etc... Not to mention iPad: Steve Jobs's downfall?...
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IT support pilot fish gets a request to install a local printer for one user -- something corporate policy discourages. But that doesn't mean it's completely out of the question.

This pilot fish supports a medical database program that's used by customers all over the country. But when one customer needs a sudden bug-fix update, everything goes well -- at first.

So goodbye then, Scott McNealy. Your company, Sun Microsystems, broke the mold and made more than $200B over 28 years. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers pay tribute to a departing leader. Not to mention a Haiti charity infographic...
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