| 12 cool ways to donate your PC's spare processing power
So you'd like to do more volunteering but can't find the time? Here's an easy way to do it: Donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing projects, many based on open source software called BOINC. You know, like SETI@home, the well-documented project that uses otherwise idle computing cycles to help "search for extraterrestrial intelligence." EMC founder Richard Egan dies after long battle with cancer
EMC founder Richard Egan, who started his electronic data storage company 30 years ago, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. Egan served as EMC's CEO until 1992, as chairman of the board until 2001 and as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, his ancestral home. Set-It-and-Forget-It Backup
Sometimes, deciding what files to back up and where to park backup copies makes the process overwhelming. And periodically you'll want to save everything on your computer, with minimum thinking required to set the process in motion. PC World contributing editor Lincoln Spector discusses various backup strategies in his article "7 Backup Strategies for Your Data, Multimedia, and System Files." CIOs Take New Look at Sharing IT Infrastructure, Apps
The world's top hotel companies have collectively invested tens of millions of dollars to implement their own customized reservation systems--considered the heart of their operations. Each hotelier views the capabilities of these systems as providing them with some competitive advantage over how they calculate rates and room availability. VMware plows ahead in face of controversy, increased competition
Heading into VMworld, VMware faces controversy and a far more competitive virtualization market than existed when the company began holding the annual conference five years ago. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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