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Thought Experiment--Forget ROI

January 23, 2012 09:50 AM
Boys and girls, today's homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CXO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is, of course, one catch: You may not factor in ROI. We're dropping ROI because it clouds the subject (bad pun intended.) Let's skip the why-should-I-do-this-experiment; I'd of course default to,"Because I told you so."

Thai Flooding Drives Disk Prices Up, Warranties Down

January 17, 2012 11:00 AM
The effects of fall's record-setting flooding in Thailand continue to reverberate throughout the storage industry. The flooding put several factories that made both completed disk drives for Seagate and Western Digital and components like platters, spindle motors and heads under several feet of water for weeks. The estimated production shortfall of 20 to 50 million drives in the fourth quarter has had a significant impact on the storage industry.

SCA Applies SOA Principles to Apps Design

June 08, 2007 04:00 AM
The Service Component Architecture spec splits apps into loosely coupled components, which helps take advantage of multicore CPUs, bringing flexibility and interoperability.

Report: Equipment Units Falling Behind WiMAX Growth

August 08, 2006 07:47 PM
A report sees the promise of WiMAX but says equipment shipments may lag behind.

Making The Cut In Blade Servers

June 07, 2004 03:00 PM
Intel's strategy to get system builders to jump into the blade market may heat up an already white-hot market, but white-box builders say the vendor may face an uphill fight.

Non-Branded PC Market Positioned For Growth

January 29, 2004 04:00 PM
Non-branded PC makers, who control more than a quarter of the desktop market, are in position to take advantage of an improving economy to boost their share of notebooks and

Getting Ready for VoWLAN

December 05, 2003 11:00 PM
For years Voice over Wireless LANS (VoWLAN) has been a niche product but with the increasing deployment of 802.11 wireless LANs in enterprises, VoWLAN is increasingly becoming a feasible alternative

IBM, BEA Join In Pursuing New Java Specs

November 25, 2003 11:00 PM
IBM and BEA Systems Inc. introduced specifications that would add consistency among Java-based infrastructure software, and make it easier to use the Java platform within a service-oriented architecture.

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