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So Much Data, So Little Encryption

We surveyed almost 500 business technology professionals and found little end-to-end encryption use. Instead, we're doing only what auditors demand.

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Charles Babcock

IBM Fellow Says SOA More Relevant Than Ever
You can't help getting the impression with Kerrie Holley, IBM's CTO of its SOA Center of Excellence, of how much the idea of services remain the underpinning of what we're trying to do, whether restructuring the enterprise data center, implement a simple Web service, invoke software-as-a-service such as Salesforce.com, or go straight to cloud computing.

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Dave Methvin

You Can Touch, But It'll Cost You
Michael Arrington's CrunchPad has become the Fusion Garage JooJoo, and it will launch on Friday. To listen to Arrington's talk of legal action last week, it seemed unlikely this tablet device would ever see the light of day. Yet here it is, real enough to sell, at least unless Arringon's lawyers get an injunction.

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George Crump

Failure To Move
Don MacVittie in his blog over at F5 commented recently on an article that we have written �What is File Virtualization?� indicating that we missed a key issue in dealing with how to handle it when your virtualization box goes down. While my defense could be that the subject is beyond the scope of a primer, it is not beyond the scope of this blog. If you are considering a tiered storage model then what do you do when your data mover fails?

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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Hospital Goes Mobile For Holiday Fundraising
Non-profit organizations count on the giving, holiday spirit for end-of-year fundraising campaigns, but with the tight economy, generosity is being rationed by many people. Children's Hospital Boston is hoping a new text messaging campaign underway will drive smaller donations that will add up all year.

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Government CIOs Must Focus On Results, Not Data Centers
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Rob Preston

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Art Wittmann

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Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
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