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	Apple, Google, Facebook turn N.C. into data center hub Apple's new $1 billion dollar data center looms large on Google Earth, putting its Maiden, N.C., home on the map. From the roof to its sides, the 500,000-square-foot building is painted white to reflect the sun's heat back into space. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Move Fearlessly Among the Clouds. It's open, yet secure. Agile, yet efficient. Virtual, yet real. It builds on your current network, combining servers, networking, storage and virtualization. So you can deploy applications in minutes, not weeks. Move among the clouds. Grow your business. And turn silos into new ways of working together. Learn more at www.cisco.com/go/dcbusiness. In this Issue IBM: Highlights of 100 years Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems HP, Microsoft Team Up Against Oracle BMC buys software from vendor that lost IBM legal battle HP, Toshiba collaborate on cloud computing The data center needs an operating system? IBM's new future: Quantum computing 100 years of IBM: Milestones Research tackles powering the virtual data center State extends tax deadline after lengthy online outage WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! IBM: Highlights of 100 years As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday today, we take a look back at some of the major moments in the company's history Read More Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems A host of new data center startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. Read More HP, Microsoft Team Up Against Oracle Hewlett-Packard carried its feud with Oracle to the floor of its user group conference this month by clearly encouraging migrations from Oracle to Microsoft software on HP hardware. Read More WHITE PAPER: AirMagnet, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Enterasys Networks, HP, and Motorola The 2011 Wi-Fi "Cheat Sheet" Achieving Ethernet parity with Wi-Fi is no small task. Learn how leading vendors are building tool and tweaking architectures to: • Add capacity to APs • Avoid traffic bottlenecks • Identify and eradicate interference and its sources • Enable converged management and policy setting across Wi-Fi and wired environments Read now! BMC buys software from vendor that lost IBM legal battle BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More HP, Toshiba collaborate on cloud computing Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will collaborate to push cloud computing and related services to infrastructure organizations, the companies said on Thursday Read More The data center needs an operating system? The need for a data center operating system increases, but the means of building one are still shaky. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View™ environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Learn more. IBM's new future: Quantum computing IBM marks its 100th anniversary by celebrating its record in technology innovation. Read More 100 years of IBM: Milestones IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. until the 1970s, the company grew from a pre-World War I conglomeration of companies making tabulating machines and time-keeping devices into a globe-spanning technology behemoth that pioneered the development of electronic computers and dominated the mainframe era. Read More Research tackles powering the virtual data center Virtualization makes power management more complicated, but one researcher says he has the solution. Read More State extends tax deadline after lengthy online outage It's the least they can do. Massachusetts businesses and individuals who rely on special Department of Revenue Web applications to file quarterly tax payments will get a two-day reprieve from today's scheduled deadline in the wake of an outage that began over the weekend and was fixed only last night. A statement from the Department of Revenue reads: Read More
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