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J. Nicholas Hoover

Let The Contractors In
Contractors deserve a voice in the series of upcoming TechStat review sessions the Office of Management and Budget has launched to fix high-risk IT projects across the federal government.

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Keith Ferrell

One-Thrd Of Users Fear The Whole Wide Web And Everything On It
New figures from Avira indicate that a healthy fear of the Web is making users more security-conscious if not yet more careful. Now's a good time to reinforce the lesson.

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Hank Marquis

Quality Of Service Isn't Quality Of Experience
In simple terms, Quality of Service (QoS) refers to the emotional opinions a customer develops from using a service. These personal hopes and opinions affect loyalty, retention, purchase decisions and the financial performance of your company. The easiest way to understand the emotions of Quality of Experience is to consider what customers say about a service.

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George Crump

vStorage API Spreads Its Wings
The goal for VMware is to virtualize as much of the data center as possible. This goal can only be reached by increasing virtual machine (VM) density per physical server. The roadblock to high VM density per host is storage performance and data protection. Much of the focus of VMworld was addressing those issues through more vendors adopting the use of the vStorage API set.

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Ed Hansberry

Microsoft Goes Gold, Apple and Palm Announce Updates
This has been a pretty big week for upcoming smartphone platforms. Microsoft announced today that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing on schedule. Palm has released the SDK for WebOS 2 and revealed quite a bit of info on the new platform. Finally, Apple today gave details on the 4.1 and 4.2 updates for iOS.

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Enterprise Efficiency

IT & the Enterprise: Can't We All Just Get Along?
IT doesn't always see eye to eye with the rest of the enterprise. But there are signs that the relationship is improving

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Nicole Ferraro

IE Radio: We're LIVE With Dale Fuller!
We're live on IE Radio with Dale Fuller, CEO of MokaFive

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Jonathan Erickson

Parallel Studio 2011: Now We Know What Happened to Ct, Cilk++, and RapidMind
Intel has released Parallel Studio 2011, a suite of tools intended to simplify and speed up the development of parallel programs running on multicore architectures. Based on the Parallel Studio package released last year, Parallel Studio 2011 adds expanded threading libraries and a threading advisor to its C++ compiler, error-checking and profiling tools.



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HP Wins 3PAR Bidding War At $33

Dell submitted a renewed offer that included a sweetened termination bid approaching $100 million, but 3PAR declined to accept it, clearing the way for HP to acquire the storage company for more than $2.3 billion.

Qi Intros Wireless Charging Station Standard

Wireless Power Consortium has also certified the first products compatible with the interoperability standard.

DARPA Soliciting Bids On Insider Threat Prevention

Defense Department agency to develop system that can identify and stop people from removing information from its networks.

Global CIO: IBM's Blazing New Mainframe Wins Raves From Citigroup

Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.

Join The Discussion: Apple's New iPods, TV Strategy

Apple has unveiled a refreshed line of iPods and announced major content partnerships for Apple TV. Weigh in with your thoughts on the announcements.

FCC Calls For More Input On Net Neutrality

Agency's decision to solicit additional feedback on wireless regulation hailed by industry groups, criticized by public interest organizations.


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Doug Henschen

What's At Stake in the Big Data Revolution?
For database vendors and customers alike, success depends on affordability, manageability and speedy analysis.

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Eric Zeman

Use A BlackBerry To Order A Starbucks Latte
Starbucks and Research In Motion on Thursday announced a new Starbucks application for BlackBerries. The app lets BlackBerry users manage their Starbucks account and make purchases at select stores.

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Fritz Nelson

InformationWeek 500 Preview: The Growth Imperative
The annual InformationWeek 500 Conference will commence Sept. 12-15. As organizations explore new ways to grow, this year's gathering will provide the fodder and inspiration to propel IT into the center of that discussion. Come join us at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Calif.

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Bob Evans

Global CIO: IBM's Blazing New Mainframe Wins Raves From Citigroup
Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Meaningful Use Certification Confounds CIOs
Uncertainty over the data certification requirements for Electronic Health Records has normally unflappable healthcare CIOs exasperated.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Patent Acquirer RPX On A Roll Against The Trolls
The company now has sufficient revenue to buy $100 million in patents and patent rights a year as it shields members from "non-practicing entities."

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: VDI Is An Enabler, But Not A Big Cost Saver
Desktop virtualization may not save a dime over the long haul, but it will let IT use information and serve the business better.

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John Foley

Government Technologist: DoD Must Confront Child Porn Issue
In the wake of an Inspector General report, John Foley argues that the Defense Department must take aggressive steps to prevent access to child porn on government PCs and review its policies for dealing with the problem.

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Alexander Wolfe

Wolfe's Den: Mad Rush For Enterprise 2.0 Patents
Vendors are vying to lock up rights to the social-enterprise. Here's a selective look at cool patent tech from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText , and SAP, as well as two surprising newcomers.

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Briefs & Reports

Preparing for I/O Virtualization Preparing for I/O Virtualization
As virtual servers, storage and applications become the norm, vendors are offering products to consolidate host communications into a single channel.

Research: WAN Optimization Research: WAN Optimization
The notion of converged services and the buzz around private clouds are creating stress on the WAN. Are optimization appliances, physical and virtual, the answer?

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