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Democrats Call for H-1B, L-1 Visa Restrictions
A new proposal by U.S. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., would see a stiffening of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L-1 visas, including restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that U.S. companies of a certain size could hire. While the plan currently circulating on Capitol Hill is…
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Data Centers and Clouds to Add Huge Hard Disk Drive Capacity
A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud…
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HP Palm Buy Leaves Tablet Space in Flux
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion. What’s less certain is how the deal might affect the nascent tablet PC market. HP has a number of decisions confronting it, including how to best integrate Palm’s products into its…
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Virtualization Security Still Not Up to Par
Enterprise adoption of virtualization is continuing its upward trend. But what about security? According to Prism Microsystems, organizations are slacking when it comes to protecting virtualized environments. A survey of 302 IT managers, security pros, auditors and administrators about their virtual deployments paints a picture of a landscape where the hypervisor is unprotected and separation…
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Google Adds 3D for Android Tablets
BumpTop uses “pile creation techniques” to shuffle and stack documents as if they were cards in a deck. The app was originally created for use with a pen-style stylus; the startup added multitouch last September, looking to capitalize on the shift toward touch-screen interfaces by letting users move, zoom in and out on, and access…
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IBM Targets Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Cast Iron Buy
Bolstering its play in the cloud, IBM has acquired Cast Iron Systems, which enables IT organizations to create hybrid cloud environments. Creating such hybrid environments is considered by many to be a key in enabling more movement to cloud computing and software as a service (SAAS) by enterprise customers because those large organizations are unlikely…