Archive for December, 2008

Getting the IT department ready for 2009 (ZDNet Asia)

The Corporate IT Forum says its most senior members are planning to invest in IT with careful budgeting and trimming discretionary spending as key priorities. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com

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‘Green’ Bible has some seeing red (WorldNetDaily)

Just in case the time-honored Holy Bible isn’t eco-friendly enough for environmentalists, one publisher has released “The Green Bible” so Christians may understand its “powerful message for the earth” – in green, soy-based ink.

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Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format (ZDNet)

If you’re looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use…

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Is the cloud computing maturity model unnecessary or simply misunderstood? (CNET)

Roger Smith challenges the need for a maturity model for cloud computing. His points are worth consideration, but as he makes his case he clearly misunderstands the tenor and theme of the model I introduced.

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They used ‘em, you reeled: the year’s most overused phrases (The Register)

Green cloud-as-a-service, anyone? Credit crunch and economic meltdown aside, if 2008 is remembered for anything in tech it will be for the domination of the phrase “cloud computing”. The “cloud” was seized on by start-ups and tech giants rushing to catch the next wave or remain relevant.…

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