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    How do they do IT? 21 March, 2010 08:00

    Formula 1 racing
    Trevor Clarke jumps into the driver’s seat at the Formula 1 to discover the role IT plays in winning races.
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    Shifting tides for enterprise IT 16 March, 2010 07:16

    The cloud's role in modern enterprises is changing the fundamental role of IT
    During the early days of technological development, IT was traditionally seen as a nice embellishment to any company's operations, providing any firm with the right push in being competitively advantageous against other companies.
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    Virtualisation buyers guide 07 March, 2010 08:00

    Windows 7 could provide the catalyst for a wave of virtualisation at the desktop level. But end user experience will make or break the technology.
    So you’re about to roll out Windows 7 and are thinking of going down the virtual desktop path. You’ve built a good set of skills around server virtualisation and feel ready to take on the desktop. Either way, desktop virtualisation is increasingly on IT managers’ radars for its promise of greater ease of management, costs savings, flexibility, improved control over security, ability to create and push virtual standard operating environment (SOEs) out to users anytime, anywhere and its ‘green IT’ benefits.
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    Saving money, space and energy with blade virtualisation 18 February, 2010 08:51

    How a Rhode Island law firm is doing more with less thanks to a virtualisation makeover.
    In 1986, Attorney Nicholas Barrett founded Nicholas Barrett & Associates with just himself and an assistant running the business. But over the last 24 years, that small two-person office has grown into a bustling 45-person law firm specializing in litigation, real estate law, collections, and loan servicing.
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    NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization 05 February, 2010 04:33

    It hopes to reduce its annual electricity bills by $170,000
    New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.
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    Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' is here: 5 things CIOs must know 02 November, 2009 12:59

    The latest Ubuntu releasehas some useful enhancements that should prove particularly interesting to CIOs and IT managers.
    In case you’ve been too busy dealing with rogue iPhones, October 2009 was a big month for operating systems. Do CIOs care about operating systems? Probably not as much as they used to, but with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" (from here on abbreviated to simply "Karmic" for sanity purposes) being released within days of each other, CIOs at least have a reason to be excited about the future of the desktop. Here are five things about Karmic that senior IT executives should consider before disregarding Linux as an option for their desktop and server fleets.
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    Product Guide: Deep dive: SAN and NAS virtualization 23 November, 2009 17:06

    An in-depth look and different types of storage virtualization
    In just a few short years, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to affordable commodity. As a standard feature in all but the most modest mid-tier storage arrays, storage virtualization soothes a wide range of storage management woes for small and mid-size organizations. At the same time, dedicated solutions from top-tier vendors deliver the greatest ROI to large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements.
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    Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects? 30 September, 2009 07:52

    A single Amazon Machine Image may be launched multiple times as an EC2 instance, so the true number of individual servers may be lower
    There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.
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    QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes 30 September, 2009 14:06

    Support for multiple monitors added
    Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.
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    CIOs highlight BI, virtualisation and cloud computing as key to competitiveness 15 September, 2009 10:57

    An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.
    An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.
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    5 free project management applications you must try 08 September, 2009 14:19

    Putting together a project plan can sometimes seem more daunting than completing the project itself. When you need to track each step of a project, along with your costs, staff, and other factors, you probably need a project management application.
    Project management applications are usually centered around Gantt charts, where each step in a project is represented as a bar in the chart. These visuals are linked to lists of the resources tied to each task
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