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Cloud Trends of 2010 Foreshadow Cloud Computing in 2011

It was a watershed year for cloud computing, but what lies ahead?

The Incredible Shrinking Data Center: Capacity and Space at a Premium

The issues posed by near-exponential growth in enterprise storage needs present formidable challenges.

Tracking Trends: Data Security Risks

The top three risk trends in 2010, and what lies ahead for security professionals in 2011.

Q&A: IT Automation, Virtualization, and the Cloud

Virtualization and cloud computing present a blind spot: traiditional IT management and automation tools don’t offer the necessary visibility and control. What can IT do?

This Year, The Desktop; Next Year, The Cloud

This year the desktop ruled. Desktops will continue to lead the trends in 2011, but in a direction no one would ever have imagined two years ago.

Userful MultiSeat Enables the $59 Linux Desktop Computer

Reduces hardware costs by up to 80 percent.

Cloud: The Year Past, The Year Ahead

During 2010, enterprises were figuring out and defining the cloud; in 2011, they’ll be putting clouds into action.



Veryant Introduces isCOBOL for HP OpenVMS Systems

Extends COBOL and Java modernization solution to popular OpenVMS platform.

Developer, Network Architect, Help Desk Support Make List of Best Careers for 2011

In this year's "50 Best Careers" list, four IT-related jobs made the cut: computer software engineer, computer support specialist, computer systems analyst, and network architect.

Cloud Security Alliance Unveils Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Stack

Provides toolkit for key stakeholders to implement, assess security of cloud environments

Kapow Katalyst 8 Introduced

New release accelerates business process automation, cloud integration, mobile-enablement, business intelligence, data collection, and content migration.

Enterasys Data Center Manager Automates Control, Visibility of Physical and Virtual Data Centers

Enterasys vendor agnostic, open data center architecture supports all virtualization platforms.

Google Apps Government Award Raises Microsoft's Hackles

Microsoft questions the use of overseas data centers in GSA deal.

U.S. Government Agency First To Go Google Cloud

The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said.

Why Data Virtualization Trumps Data Federation Alone

Data virtualization confers advantages that simply aren’t achievable by means of federation alone.

Third-Party DI Tools Make Mapping Easier

Next-gen DI player Expressor says it tackles integration problems that SQL Server and other conventional RDBMS systems weren’t designed to address.

Case Study: IBM, Predictive Analytics, and Grevy's Zebra

With the world losing one or more entire species of animal or plant life every 20 minutes, a conservation group in the UK is using analytical software from IBM to untangle the complex factors contributing to a particular species' decline.

EventTracker v7.1 Alerts Users to Security Breaches

New version can alert authorities to suspicious data downloads such as those by WikiLeaks of classified information

Crunching the Numbers on Big Data

What’s so big about Big Data? It’s probably bigger than you think.

Letters to the Editor: The BI Platform Wars are Not Over

A BI analyst and TDWI faculty member takes issue with a BI This Week article about the state of BI platforms.