Consolidating Federal Data Centers Could Take 10 Years

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Consolidating Federal Data Centers Could Take 10 Years


Analyst firm INPUT finds significant challenges to the government's ambitious plan to save money and increase efficiency and security through greater use of virtualization and cloud computing.

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• Fed Data Center Efforts Move To Execution Phase

• InformationWeek 500: Government Innovators

• 26 Government IT Projects Under Evaluation

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Global CIO: Is Larry Ellison Going Soft On HP And IBM?


Dropping his standard jabs and insults, Ellison's been downright sweet to HP and IBM lately. What the heck's going on here?

Oracle, HP Settle Hurd Lawsuit


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Oracle Releases 'Unbreakable' Linux Kernel


Competition with Red Hat heats up with a modified Linux that Oracle says is best for running its software on its hardware.

Gmail For Android Gains Priority Inbox

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AT&T Intros Dual Cellular Satellite Smartphone


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Halo Reach Needs HDD For Co-op Play


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HP Updates Printer Line

Web, cloud and mobile-enabled printing capabilities headline a refresh of HP's printer, scanner and MFP offerings.

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Larry Ellison Hammers Salesforce.com On Security


By Bob Evans

Introducing Oracle's new Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine, Larry Ellison opened his remarks by saying that cloud computing has many definitions, and he cited Amazon.com and Salesforce.com as examples of profoundly different cloud approaches. And then he unloaded on Salesforce.com for "commingling" customers' data and offering "a very weak security model."

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Unlocking Intel's $50 CPU Upgrade Program

By Alexander Wolfe


Sometimes you can't win for losing. Intel is getting hammered by the Web-o-sphere for purportedly ripping off consumers by selling a $50 upgrade to unlock some hidden processor features, when the chip behemoth's main intent is to help its authorized system builders earn a little extra cash. Read on for a possibly deeper dive than you may be interested in.

Wanted: Business Outcomes For Enterprising Midmarket

By Michele Pepe-Warren


Just about 10 weeks into his stint as the new general manager of IBM's midmarket business, Andy Monshaw has a lot of data to compute. He's spent these past weeks working his way around the globe, talking to everybody from partners and clients to analysts and advisory boards. Now he's putting the pieces together.

Twitter Under Attack

By George Hulme


There's a cross-site site scripting flaw aggressively spreading across the social networking site Twitter. I know, I was hacked first thing this morning. . .

Virtual Desktops And Storage - Dealing With Boot Storms

By George Crump


Virtual desktop environments are different than virtual server environments when discussing performance. To the virtual desktop environment we need to be able to provide acceptable performance consistent, but moderate, performance throughout the day to a set of endpoints (desktops and laptops) that have similar I/O patterns. This is different than server virtualization which has highly random I/O patterns and needs very high performance at peak moments throughout the day.

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