Why Your Data Center TCO and Location Matter

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	Why Your Data Center TCO and Location Matter From tax incentives to energy rates, there are several key factors that directly impact the total cost of ownership over the lifetime of your data center. Building your facility in the right place, then, is no small task. Here's what you need to know to keep costs down. Read More WEBCAST: Hortonworks Hortonworks and Microsoft Brings Apache Hadoop to Windows Join us in this 60-minute webcast with Rohit Bakashi, Product Management, Hortonworks and Mike Flasko, Program Manager, Microsoft to discuss the works being done since the announcement. View Now In this Issue Big Switch arrives WD releases 4TB version of high-performance drive Hewlett Packard takes $8.8 billion charge, says it was misled prior to Autonomy acquisition How to Hire, Manage and Even Appreciate Millennial IT Workers The Ninth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards China's Baidu to bring free cloud storage to devices built with Qualcomm chips STORE: Data storage holiday gift ideas Be a hero for the holidays 30 years later: Imagine if the famous Harvard-Yale football game balloon prank was tried this Saturday WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Big Switch arrives The march toward software-defined networking will be a long slog given current investments in the installed base, but industry forces are coalescing rapidly in anticipation of the huge benefits to be reaped from this fundamental shift in the way we build and run networks. Read More WD releases 4TB version of high-performance drive Western Digital today released a 4TB version of its highest performance desktop drive, the WD Black, a 3.5-inch, 7200rpm drive with 64MB of cache and SATA 6Gbps interface. Read More Hewlett Packard takes $8.8 billion charge, says it was misled prior to Autonomy acquisition Hewlett Packard released its fourth-quarter financial results ahead of schedule Tuesday morning, including a charge for $8.8 billion related to its acquisition of U.K. software firm Autonomy. HP says the bulk of the charge, for impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, is "linked to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of Autonomy." Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Universities Face Big Data Test Big Data will help university stakeholders make better-informed decisions across the board, from student recruitment to day-to-day operations. To carry that Big Data, Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networks are stepping up to help institutions build flexible and resilient network topologies. Learn more. How to Hire, Manage and Even Appreciate Millennial IT Workers A recent survey reveals that hiring managers are far more likely to hire IT pros from Generation-X or baby-boomers than they are to hire from the millennial generation. Find out what's behind this trend and why you have to learn to stop worrying and love millennials. Read More The Ninth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards For the ninth time, Gibbs hands out awards to those on the path to Failsville Read More China's Baidu to bring free cloud storage to devices built with Qualcomm chips China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips, in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence in the country's mobile services sector. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now STORE: Data storage holiday gift ideas If you're gadget fans like we are, all of this digital content creation leads us to need more places to store the stuff we're making. Read More Be a hero for the holidays Peruse through Network World's 2012 version of the cool yule tools. Read More 30 years later: Imagine if the famous Harvard-Yale football game balloon prank was tried this Saturday Even back in 1982, the astonishing emergence of a large black weather balloon from beneath the field during the annual Harvard-Yale football game was enough to have police officers drawing their guns. Today? SWAT teams and bomb squads would be the least of it. But before we go there and speculate further, here's a short video for those unfamiliar with the prank that was perpetrated by an MIT fraternity.... Read More
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