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File and database activity monitoring

When I started my career in network management many years ago, my primary focus with file sharing and database applications was to make sure that they had enough disk space to grow. This basic level of monitoring is still important today. However, due the amount and sensitivity of data on today's networks, this basic monitoring has being extended and is now being referred to as FAM (file activity management) and DAM (database activity management).

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Microsoft's Windows 7 iPad is "coming soon" (and PsD)

It's official: Microsoft's Apple iPad competitor is "coming soon," with Windows 7 on Intel. At yesterday's financial analysts' meeting, Steve Ballmer made his clearest statement yet on the company's vision for tablet computing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers reach out and touch the future. Not to mention a Philips-shop disaster...
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Microsoft's secret slide: We'll lose $300 million in first years of Yahoo deal

Note to Steve Ballmer: Check your PowerPoint deck before making a presentation to Wall Street Analysts. At Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) on July 30, a slide that Microsoft meant to keep secret showed that the company will lose $300 million in the first year of the Yahoo deal, but make money steadily after that.

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