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Open Cloud Manifesto Ensures Migration, Not Identity Management
The controversial “Open Cloud Manifesto” is intended to ensure users of Web-based applications such as those offered by Salesforce.com, IBM and Microsoft have the ability to port their data to new providers should they choose to switch services. However, the limitation of cloud services is the lack of secure inter-cloud communications and data exchange between…
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Intel`s Xeon 5500 Greens Servers and Conquers Virtual Worlds
With the launch of Intel’s new Xeon 5500 processors, it’s obvious that data centers will turn to the latest CPU to consolidate servers and embrace virtualization in the data center. But, what isn’t so obvious is what the Xeon 5500 means to the traditional desktop infrastructure. A Xeon 5500 based server has the potential to…
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Dawn of Solutions as a Service
If there’s going to be an “IT 3.0” or a “Channel 3.0,” the marketplace masters will be those companies that crack the code for “solutions as a service.” Two years ago while working at the now defunct VARBusiness, I coined the term “Channel 2.0.” At the time, the channel was already showing shifts in the…
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Stopping Conficker: The Tools You`ll Need
Thanks to the exaggerated dangers posed by the Conficker worm, many are wondering if they are safe from the predictions of gloom and doom expected to hit internet connected PCs on April 1. Luckily, it takes very little to be prepared for and stop Conficker from impacting your PC and ending the world as we…
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FBI Report: Internet Fraud on the Rise in Recession
Small businesses may need the services of a trusted adviser such as their IT solution provider in the midst of the current recession more than they ever have before, given the recession-spurred rise in Internet fraud recently reported by the FBI. Or at least they should be careful about what businesses they choose to buy…
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Intel Nehalem Xeon Processor Could Hurt Server Sales
Intel’s Nehalem Xeon processor launch March 30 could potentially make Intel a leader in the hardware virtualization space and spur more virtualization projects, but it’s not likely to sell any more server hardware. That could be bad news for server vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. IT solution providers that sell into large businesses…