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Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others
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WHITE PAPER: IBM

Cloud with a Brain
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HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. learn more

Beware of the iCloud
ICloud, Apple's new cloud storage service, which officially launches this week, is an iPad/iPhone lover's dream and IT security professional's nightmare. Read More

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Our round-up of intriguing new products from HP, Symantec, Cisco among others. Read More

Netflix ditches plan to split video streaming, DVD operations
Having gotten the message that virtually everyone hated the idea, Netflix has abandoned its plan to move its DVD mailing operation to a separate Web site called Qwikster. The reversal comes less than a month after the plan was announced. Netflix did not, however, backtrack on the accompanying price increase that also steamed its customers. CEO Reed Hastings says in a blog post published this morning:... Read More

H-1B Visa Cap Must Go, Says NYC Mayor
In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offices, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said restrictive U.S. visa policies, like the cap on H-1B visas, are a form of 'national suicide.' Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quest Software

New NetVault Backup Licensing Model
Read a report from an industry-leading analyst to see why traditional backup and recovery licensing methods no longer make sense. You'll learn how you can dramatically cut costs with a different strategy that's more intuitive, reasonable, enduring, and flexible. Download the report today. Read Now!

Infoblox adds master controller to product line
Infoblox will unveil on Monday a new type of IP appliance aimed at its largest customers, which are increasingly delegating the management of critical network services to business units but want the IT department to monitor overall network performance. Read More

Watch Large Hadron Collider Collisions with an Android App
If you have a phone or tablet that runs Google Android, you should check out the new LHSee app, released by the University of Oxford and available in the Android Market. Funded by the Science & Technology Facilities Council, the LHSee app delivers data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN directly to your handheld device. Read More

Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer
Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company's engineers hope will address some of the shortcomings of the widely used JavaScript language. Read More

Imation launches line of NAS appliances for nearline, offline storage
Imation today unveiled a new line of storage appliances aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises that store data in a "near-line" state or can offload it to removable hard drives for archive. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel

Converged Infrastructure in the Branch Office
HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. Read now

McNealy: I would have run HP if they'd asked me
Scott McNealy, the former chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, would have accepted the job of running Hewlett-Packard if he had been asked, he said this week. Read More

111 arrested in massive ID theft bust
Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in U.S. history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were charged with running a credit-card-stealing organization that stole more than US$13 million in less than a year-and-a-half. Read More

6 Steps to Boost Data Center Power and Cooling Efficiency
Increased energy efficiency in a data center can be reached without major changes to IT equipment or facilities. Here are six ways to get there. Read More

Bring Your Own Tech: 9 Things IT Needs To Know
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