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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure Cloud Platform
Microsoft will turn on its Windows Azure cloud platform as of January 1, 2010, said Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie in a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 here. In his speech on November 17, Ozzie said Microsoft would continue to offer Windows Azure as a Community Technology Preview (CTP)…
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Building Brand through Social Networks
Building Brand through Social Networks Small Social Network BudgetsAccording to the study, 4 out of 5 (84%) of chief marketing officers (CMOs) allocate less than 10% of their budgets to experimenting through social media and non-traditional communications channels, with more than 55% allocating 5% or less. No Title Social Network PopularityThe number of adult Internet…
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Putting the HP in HPC
While other segments of the IT industry have been suffering along with the economy, high-performance computing (HPC) has been relatively recession-proof says HP, which is making significant additions to its Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio. These new offerings, including the HP ProLiant G6 blade, ‘skinless’ server technology, storage, software and interconnect/networking products, are intended to reduce…
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EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology
While EMC’s biggest news in the deduplication arena may have been around its acquisition of Data Domain earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that the storage and security giant has stopped progress on its other deduplication technology. EMC is expanding its Avamar software—designed as backup software for servers in the enterprise, to officially support desktops…
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80% of Security Products Fail to Meet Expectations
Bulletproof security is a practical impossibility. Anyone who claims to have perfected the art of security is either a fool or a liar, since no security product or schema is foolproof or invincible. What security promises is risk mitigation; assuming that security technology works as advertised. And that’s the unspoken problem that undermines security effectiveness,…
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IBM’s New Service Embraces Cloud Computing
(Reuters) – IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc. Cloud computing allows companies to run software and store information in remote, large-scale data centers that can be accessed over the Internet. That means users can cut back…
