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SXSW: Twitter Won’t Save You From A Natural Disaster, But It Might Help

By on March 8, 2013 in Culture, Internet, Odds And Ends, Politics, Social Media, Uncategorized
crisistwitter

It’s fair to say that America has, at best, a mixed record responding to natural disasters. The high profile failures of Hurricane Katrina still loom large, and while the response to Hurricane Sandy wasn’t the same unmitigated fiasco, such a statement is damning with faint praise. The government – some of it anyway – knows […]

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Symantec Turns Enterprise Backup Into Crippled Pig With Lipstick

By on January 15, 2013 in Columns, Reviews, Software, Windows
Backup Exec

Like many people with jobs in corporate IT departments, I’ve encountered various revisions of Backup Exec over the years, serving as the cornerstone of a company’s backup routine. In fact, few software packages in regular use today have such a long history. My first experience with the software dates back to 1993, when Conner Peripherals […]

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