Networking World: Global CIO: WestJet's IT Nightmare And The Power Of Customers

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Friday, April 16, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
- Global CIO: WestJet's IT Nightmare And The Power Of Customers
- Microsoft Investigates Report Of Abused Workers
- Google Revenues Beat Estimates
- Former NSA Official Leaked Secrets Via Hushmail
- Global CIO: Oracle Delivers On Larry Ellison's MySQL Promises
- Google Sees Fake AV Threat
- LTE Market To Top $11 Billion By 2014
- IBM LotusLive Adds Business Services
- BDNA Maps The IT Genome

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Virtualization Management: Top 7 Best Practices to Check Sprawl
- The Expanding Profile Of Data Deduplication

WHITEPAPERS
- Leveraging Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- HP Breakthrough Promises Ultrafast Computers
- iPad's True Cost Revealed By Teardown
- Obama Wants Manned Mission To Mars
- iPad Is Banned In Israel
- Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos

WEBCASTS
- A New Way of Working: Insights from Global Leaders

RESOURCES AND EVENTS
- Special Report: Apple's iPad Not Ready For The Enterprise
- Event: Virtualization for the Next-Generation of the Efficient Data Center

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LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Global CIO: WestJet's IT Nightmare And The Power Of Customers
Just before upgrading its sweeping reservations system, the airline decided to keep customers in the dark.
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ALSO SEE

- Microsoft Investigates Report Of Abused Workers
Long hours, low wages, and poor working conditions have been documented at factory in China.
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- Google Revenues Beat Estimates
Despite strong first quarter results, the company's stock slipped on worries about costs.
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- Former NSA Official Leaked Secrets Via Hushmail
The indictment returned in Maryland on Thursday suggests how easy it is to copy and paste secrets.
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- Global CIO: Oracle Delivers On Larry Ellison's MySQL Promises
Oracle chief architect Edward Screven underscores Oracle's investments in MySQL and its unique value for customers.
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- Google Sees Fake AV Threat
Not only is fake anti-virus software increasingly common, but it delivers half of the malicious ads detected.
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- LTE Market To Top $11 Billion By 2014
Infonetics sees North America and Asia at the forefront of Long Term Evolution wireless technology.
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- IBM LotusLive Adds Business Services
Cloud communication services are turning into business process dashboards.
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- BDNA Maps The IT Genome
Strategy shift moves the company's focus to enrichment of discovery data through the industry's first, fully comprehensive product database.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Virtualization Management: Top 7 Best Practices to Check Sprawl
Organizations have historically used formal procurement and change management processes to control the introduction of physical servers into data centers. However, the ease of VM creation and the marginal capital impact of adding new virtual machines knock that model on its ear. When servers can be spun up in minutes, management headaches are guaranteed to increase in a nonlinear curve, spiking as the number of virtualized servers rises and new VM-specific feature sets are introduced.
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- The Expanding Profile Of Data Deduplication
There are many technologies that vendors say will help us get a handle on our storage. These include thin provisioning, data deduplication, improved compression methodologies, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup, encryption, virtual tape libraries, larger disk drives, and faster performing drives. In this report, we'll touch on many of these and help sort out whether deduplication in particular makes sense in your environment.
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WHITEPAPERS
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- Leveraging Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Understand the role of virtualization in business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

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- Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost
Download this whitepaper to learn the advantages of clustering. Discover why this innovative architecture returns such consistent value to the enterprises that adopt it. Understand the direct cause and effect relationship between database clustering and IT efficiencies, which can add up to big savings for your organization.

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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- HP Breakthrough Promises Ultrafast Computers
"Memristor" technology could take chip performance beyond limitations imposed by Moore's Law.
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- iPad's True Cost Revealed By Teardown
Apple is reaping a gross profit margin of almost 50% on each unit sold, analysis indicates.
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- Obama Wants Manned Mission To Mars
The President defended plans to kill the space shuttle and cancel a return to the moon, insisting that NASA needs to focus on new frontiers.
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- iPad Is Banned In Israel
Officials claim Wi-Fi connection on Apple's new tablet would overwhelm local wireless signals.
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- Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos
Check out 17 images of the guts of Apple's new game-changing Web slate, revealing tightly packed innards with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an ARM architecture processor.
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WEBCASTS
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- A New Way of Working: Insights from Global Leaders
What can nearly 300 senior executives teach you about the work practices that separate outperforming organizations from their peers? During this webcast, we will discuss our study packed with facts from the front lines of innovation and rich evidence pointing to the emergence of a smarter way of working built on greater agility among people and the processes that guide their work.

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RESOURCES AND EVENTS
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- Special Report: Apple's iPad Not Ready For The Enterprise
After a rigorous week of testing, our reviewer determines that while the iPad experience offered a series of highs (and some really big lows), in the end it is not quite ready to replace the laptop yet.
Suvey ends April 9
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- Event: Virtualization for the Next-Generation of the Efficient Data Center
Exchange valuable best-practices and pitfalls with peers to help develop a better data-center transformation for your own company's enterprise. Executives from Dell and Intel will provide expert insight and customer perspectives for getting to the next level of virtualization for the efficient data center.
It happens in New York on April 27, 2010
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