Recent Articles
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Microsoft Calls for Laws to Ensure Privacy, Security in the Cloud
If you’ve talked to your business customers about whether they have plans to move any of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, you’ve heard the same set of concerns—security and privacy. Today Microsoft called on government leaders to take action to alleviate those concerns by passing legislation to modernize criminal law to address crimes committed…
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SAP Business ByDesign Coming to Market at Last?
It’s no secret that the giants of packaged enterprise applications—SAP, Oracle, etc.—got lapped by nimbler competitors in the race to take their business software to the cloud. Salesforce.com and Netsuite went to software-as-a-service right out of the gate, while SAP, in particular, has struggled to develop a credible version of its software for the new…
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Microsoft, HP Jointly Reach for the Cloud
At times sounding more like a single entity than two separate corporate giants, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard today announced a three-year, $250 million technology-integration and go-to-market agreement that spans the entire data center stack from hardware infrastructure up to the application layer. In a press conference, Microsoft chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer and HP CEO Mark…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
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Nothing to Fear in the Cloud
In the Army, we commonly used an acronym to describe a persistently common bad or challenging situation. We called it SNAFU – or as many of us know it as “Situation Normal: All [EXPELATIVE] Up.” That’s sort of the feeling I got after reading Bob Faletra’s latest missive, “We Should All be Paranoid.” Faletra, the…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…