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Intel Debuts Eight-Core Nehalem-EX


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TOP STORY: Intel Debuts Eight-Core Nehalem-EX
MORE NEWS: SAP Launches Collaboration Cloud

ANALYTIC REPORT: Cisco Cements Next-Gen Strategy

WHITEPAPER: Comprehensive Application Security Solution Revealed
BLOG: iPad Encouraging New Levels Of Tech Obsession
WEBCAST: Implementing Smart Compliance
RESOURCES: Does Your Org Have The Chops To Be Part of the IW 500?

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QUOTE OF THE DAY...
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
-- Henry Adams 
 


TODAY'S TOP STORY

Intel Debuts Eight-Core Nehalem-EX


Chipmaker looks to go head-to-head with IBM and Oracle-Sun in market for enterprise-class processors.

RELATED INSIGHTS

AMD Intros 12-Core Opteron Processors

Semiconductor Market Rebounding

Intel Launches Six-Core Server Processors

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SAP Launches Collaboration Cloud

StreamWork announcement highlights agile development and innovation. But is it a platform customers want from SAP?

Feds Developing Cloud Security Program


Proposed FedRAMP effort would make it easier for federal agencies to overcome compliance hurdles and participate in the Obama administration's drive toward the cloud.

Cisco Simplifies Wireless Networking


Networking vendor's Valet line could challenge Apple Airport in home market.

Google: Hackers Targeted Chinese And Vietnamese


A botnet focused on Vietnamese users was erroneously associated with the cyber attacks from China.

Orange, OpenX To Challenge DoubleClick


Telecom operator will use OpenX's platform to reach the 343 million users of its Ad Network service.

Microsoft, Google Want Internet Privacy Changes


The Digital Due Process coalition says the same legal requirements for offline criminal investigations should apply to online information.

Microsoft Exec: 'We'll Beat Google In Cloud'


Senior VP Kurt DelBene says cross-platform browsing and editing advantages, plus management and security features, will lure enterprises to Office Web Applications.

White House Revising Outsourcing Policies


The policy changes requires agencies to keep "inherently governmental" jobs on the federal payroll.

Microsoft, Ford In Electric Car Venture


Software maker will tie its energy management platform to Ford's vehicles in effort to boost power efficiency.



ANALYTIC REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS

FEATURED REPORTS
Cisco Cements Next-Gen Strategy

Cisco is positioning itself for the dynamic network of the future with its new high-capacity CRS-3 router and Borderless Networks strategy.

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Featured Report

2010 IT Salary Survey

Stagnant pay is easy to spot in our U.S. IT Salary Survey. But pay attention to the consequences: employees worried about their jobs, craving recognition, and preparing to leave if opportunity knocks. Check out the full, in-depth report.

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Comprehensive Application Security Solution Revealed


Continuous application availability begins with a comprehensive application protection solution. Understand how the comprehensive security features of Citrix NetScaler protect against DoS/DDoS, deliver intrusion filtering capabilities for application-level protection, and provide complete, hardware-based encryption to offload CPU-intensive cryptographic functions from the servers.
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Modeling the Virtual Data Center


Control who manages your infrastructure, what systems are being provisioned, how applications are designed and configured, and where and when they are deployed.
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TODAY AT THE BLOG



FEATURED BLOG

Featured BloggeriPad Encouraging New Levels Of Tech Obsession


By Eric Zeman


Techies, geeks and Apple fanboys alike are exhibiting alarming symptoms of obsession over the iPad. Apple is doing its own part, too, to fan the flames of excitement with its controlled mitigation of minutia.

ALSO SEE

Hackers: How To Manually Update Droid To 2.1

By Eric Zeman


If you're the type to take risks and can't wait for Verizon's official over-the-air Android 2.1 update to reach your Motorola Droid, here are the instructions you need to update it manually.

iPad Apps May Cost More

By Ed Hansberry


If you already have an iPhone you probably have a suite of apps that you can't do without. Before you assume you'll buy them all for the iPad, you might want to check out the pricing. According to preliminary information, some developers are considering charging two, three or even as much as five times the price they charge for the iPhone.

If You've Got Big Data, You May Want Big Memory

By Charles Babcock


Jas Dhillon, CTO of Taser, explained to me last December how his company has gone from delivering stunning shocks to unruly police suspects to shocking the competition via cloud computing. In continuing to follow Taser's innovative approach, I found a story behind the story of how Taser was able to do this.

Apple Updates iTunes Ahead Of iPad Launch

By Eric Zeman


Today Apple made iTunes version 9.1 available via its software update tools. The new version of iTunes offers just a handful of new features, mostly geared toward Saturday's launch of the iPad.


WEBCASTS
Implementing Smart Compliance


In this webcast, you will learn how to adopt integrated controls that enables organizations have a clear, unified view of who is accessing what. You'll also learn how to implement preventative, detective and corrective controls for managing user life-cycle as per compliance and security requirements -- and much more!
It happens April 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS



Does Your Org Have The Chops To Be Part of the IW 500?


Nominate your company for the 2010 InformationWeek 500 -- our 22nd annual
ranking of the nation's very best business technology innovators.
Organizations with $250 million or more in revenue may apply now.


Deadline is April 30

VIDEO: Why America's Culture of Innovation Is Being Met With Global Resistance


At the recent Cloud Connect conference, Accenture managing director for tech strategy Dan Elron explains how America's tradition of tech innovation can actually make it more difficult for the US-based tech sector to succeed on the global stage.


Watch Video

2010 InformationWeek Government IT Innovators


For the past 21 years, InformationWeek has honored the country's most
technologically innovative companies with its prestigious InformationWeek
500 ranking. Now in its second year, InformationWeek's 2010 Government IT
Innovators program will shine a spotlight on some of the most innovative
government IT organizations -- at the federal, state, and local levels.
Nominate your agency by submitting an essay on your most innovative IT
initiative completed within the past 12 months.


The deadline for submitting nominations is April 30, 2010.

Event: Application Modernization in an Agile Environment


Join us for an interactive discussion with HP executives, partners and customers on application modernization trends. You'll hear about the challenges and opportunities other organizations are experiencing and get a better understanding of how business success depends on Agile delivery -- not just Agile development.


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