| EMC Wins Data Domain, Bests NetApp With $2.1B Bid NetApp last week walked away from a deal to buy data de-duplication vendor Data Domain after EMC's latest all-cash bid came in at $2.1 billion. Retired mainframe pros lured back into workforce Retired mainframe administrators are being offered lucrative deals and better work conditions by businesses unable to replace the experienced workers. Rackspace aims to repair credibility in wake of power failures It's been a difficult two weeks for Rackspace and its users, with two power outages in a co-location facility interrupting service for an estimated 2,000 customers. IT spending will fall by 6 per cent in 2009 say Gartner Worldwide IT spending is expected to decline by a further six percent this year, according to analyst firm Gartner. Oracle mysteriously halts work on green data center Oracle recently halted work on a green data center project in a suburb of Salt Lake City, but it is not clear why. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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