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by Kevin Fogarty

Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld.

IT Can't Ever Go Back; What Will It Look Like Going Forward?

Posted Oct 20, 2010 - 04:02 pm

Three years of hard recession have irrevocably changed the technology and budgets, but not purpose of IT
Microsoft Leaps to Confront the Google and Zoho of 2007

Posted Oct 19, 2010 - 04:34 pm

Four years after promising to launch an online version of Office, Microsoft is ready with more promises -- that Office 365 will ship next year, for abotu $6/month/user; proudly treads ground packed down by pioneer boots marked Google, Zoho, Yahoo and Sun
This Is Why You Get the CFOs Signature on the Project Sheet

Posted Oct 19, 2010 - 04:00 pm

English shipmakers will continue for nine years building £6 billion worth of aircraft carriers even after the government cancelled every attack jet that could have flown off them. It's apparently cheaper to finish building, then send them to mothballs.
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- Tech & society, british, military
Are you getting stiffed as the IT budget rises?

Posted Oct 19, 2010 - 01:16 pm

IT budgets were cut way back the last three years, so a lot didn't get fixed or replaced. The question is, as budgets start to show some life, how much should go to reward short-staffed IT crews and how much to new gear?
Facebook Shows How to Save $230K in Your Data Center

Posted Oct 18, 2010 - 07:12 pm

Facebook is one of the most recent companies to discover you can save tens of thousands by on data-center cooling by doing things you'd consider idiotic if you were trying to cool your bedroom during a heatwave.
Offshoring of U.S. IT Jobs Continues to Increase

Posted Oct 18, 2010 - 05:58 pm

Indian outsourcing companies are making double-digit increases in quarterly revenue, but locating a lot of their workers in the U.S.; U.S. service companies can go anywhere, but stay here because the skills to deliver cutting edge cloud and virtualization systems is still a homegrown product.
Unintentionally, AMD, Intel Build Great Cloud Chips

Posted Oct 18, 2010 - 11:12 am

It's not what they aimed at when adding GPUs to multicores, but next-gen processors should make virtual desktops, clouds and other forms of virtualization much easier on highly portable hardware.
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- Virtualization, AMD, endpoint
The Server Budget You Wish You Had

Posted Oct 15, 2010 - 03:18 pm

$757M. Sheesh.
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- Data Center, data center, Google
NIST Lays Out Spec to Turn Power Grid to Network Grid

Posted Oct 15, 2010 - 02:59 pm

The federal government has committed billions to enhancing national power grids to load balance, save power and, eventually, use the same cables to carry data and power.
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- Green IT, NIST, powerline network
Forrester Downgrades Predictions on IT Spending for 2010

Posted Oct 15, 2010 - 02:24 pm

Forrester prediction goes from 'astonishing' to 'really, really good,' read the story before wailing and rending your clothing in despair, otherwise people at Starbucks tend to stare. Trust me.

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