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• Amazon EC2 Entices Innovative Uses With Persistent Storage
August 21, 2008 -- Users can store up to 1 TB of data in a single instance of EBS and can scale to as many EBS instances as they need.

• AIG Private Client Group Diagnoses SOA Glitches With BMC Solution
August 21, 2008 -- AIG Private Client Group speeds diagnosis of system glitches by deploying BMC's problem resolution tool.

• CA Emphasizes Holistic Enterprise IT Management
June 10, 2008 -- CA is focusing its line of management software products on enterprise IT environments, including managing virtualized systems.

• Apple Previews Its Next Mac OS 'Snow Leopard'
June 09, 2008 -- When released in about a year, Mac OS X 10.6 will be optimized for multicore processors and will focus more on speed and stability than new features.

• E-Commerce Sites Need A Wireless Selling Strategy
June 03, 2008 -- Cisco finds that using cell phones as a purchasing point offers a major growth opportunity for retailers.

• Metastorm Upgrades BPM Suite
June 02, 2008 -- Version 7.6 of the Metastorm BPM strengthens the company's use of Microsoft desktop technologies, including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007.

• Voice Is A Bump On Road To Wireless
May 24, 2008 -- Until the voice question is answered, organizations should be cautious.

• HP Edges Up To Virtual Desktops With Mobile Thin Client
May 21, 2008 -- HP's 2533t is a mobile thin client with Windows XP Embedded and a gigabyte of flash memory inside.

• Citrix Shifts Virtualization Spotlight To Desktops
May 20, 2008 -- Citrix Systems is changing its emphasis to focus on delivering virtual services to user desktops, it will tell attendees at its Synergy 2008 user group meeting.

• IT Spending May Not Be So Recession-Proof, After All
May 15, 2008 -- In contrast to its prior survey, Astaro found that the bleak economic outlook is likely to decrease spending on IT security.

• Clearwire: Mobile WiMax Before The End Of The Year
May 13, 2008 -- CEO Benjamin Wolff reports gains in subscribers and revenues in its first quarter but also greater losses on the way to its national wireless rollout.

• SOA Can Deliver On Promise With Right Strategies In Place
May 13, 2008 -- Insurers are discovering that a service-oriented architecture -- guided by the right governance and cultural change management strategies -- can deliver on SOA's promise of a more agile IT organization.

• VMware: Virtualization Offers A Way To Recover From Disaster
May 13, 2008 -- The company touts its newly released Site Recovery Manager as an automation agent that takes over to shift workloads with existing data to the recovery site.

• Microsoft: 'We've Moved On' From Yahoo
May 06, 2008 -- "Yahoo would have been an accelerator, but we've moved on and now we're focused on how fast we can grow organically," Windows Live general manager Brian Hall said.

• Sony Pictures Uses 'Green Power' For Data Center
April 29, 2008 -- Sony Pictures Entertainment is the first customer of data center operator 365 Main to sign up for a new reusable energy program.

• Oracle Database Susceptible To Rare Attack
April 29, 2008 -- "A lateral SQL injection" attack that can be placed by an outsider in a database application using Oracle's extended PL/SQL query language can be prevented, security experts say.

• Infected Web Pages Nearly Triple
April 22, 2008 -- Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw new infected Web pages every 14 seconds.

• Desktone, Verizon Announce Desktop Virtualization As A Service
April 21, 2008 -- Desktone plans to sell "desktops as a service" through service providers like Verizon Businesss and European and Asian carriers; IBM is a partner.

• Web 2.0: Companies Will Spend $4.6 Billion By 2013, Forrester Predicts
April 21, 2008 -- Some of the companies adopting social networking, RSS, blogs, wikis, mashups, podcasting, and widgets will be presenting at the Web 2.0 Expo show this week.

• Women More Likely Than Men To Surrender Security For Chocolate
April 16, 2008 -- The overall percentage of London office workers willing to trade their computer passwords for a few moments of chocolaty goodness was down two-thirds compared to 2007.

• Spear-Phishing Attack Uses Fake Subpoenas To Steal From CEOs
April 15, 2008 -- iDefense estimates that the attack went out to about 15,000 to 20,000 executives, resulting in about 1,800 confirmed malware victims.

• Citrix Plunges Deeper Into Desktop Virtualization
April 14, 2008 -- Showing off their partnership, Citrix will equip XenDesktop with its ICA protocol that Microsoft's products can recognize and respond to.

• Great Bay Software: Focusing On Everything Else
April 10, 2008 -- Great Bay is the latest NAC vendor -- along with Cisco and Enterasys -- to announce a system that allows employees to sponsor guest access.

• Virtualizing Servers on Routers, If Cisco Approves
April 10, 2008 -- There's now an SDK and API for Cisco's branch office routers, but customers will need to get apps approved by Cisco.

• Sun, Fujitsu Target Data-Centers With UltraSparc T2 Plus Servers
April 09, 2008 -- The T5140 and T5240 systems allow up to 128 virtual servers per system to help customers in data center consolidation.