If there are potential stumbling blocks, it’s a perceived lack of clear guidance from the feds and insufficient staff training. Only 38 percent of respondents graded the OMB’s guidance on data center consolidation an A or B — still an 8 percentage point increase from May. And only half of respondents said their agencies are “staffed and trained” to manage the data center consolidation effort.

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Mr. Lacey and representatives of LinuxIT made the announcement following meetings with Bristol City Council where municipal authorities are actively introducing Linux training and the adoption of Open Source Software into the city’s services as part of their efforts to save on licensing costs, enhance security efforts and promote the life-long learning of their technological support staff.

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HP today announced that organizations worldwide are creating a competitive advantage by accelerating the reliable, secure delivery of applications and services with the HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 software platform. The suite delivers a comprehensive view across all IT assets, automates IT management and adjusts IT performance to meet specific business goals.

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The raw performance of cloud means you’ll be further away from your applications than before. We solve the problems of distance, and latency, and bandwidth concerns. Plus, when you let go of your IT resources and entrust them to a third party, you have concerns about security and ease of use. So we put emphasis on how it’s encrypted and how it’s simple and available. That’s comforting to a CIO who is making the first jump off the cliff and going bravely into the world of Read more

“The Lync 2010 for Windows Phone app is…available today, and Lync 2010 clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia Symbian have been submitted to their respective mobile app marketplaces and will be available as soon as they have been approved,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.

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When people call Suchter a geek, he unabashedly and happily accepts the compliment. Apart from search, he delights in spending time with his wife, son and daughter, a kindergartner who is learning Mandarin. He also loves building things – bridges, bird houses, human houses – anything that “creates something from nothing.”

Gartner predicts that public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise spending (19 percent annually through 2015). With the Read more

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More information on Microsoft’s current Responsible Sourcing Initiatives is available at Microsoft’s 2011 Citizenship Report. Microsoft is taking this step in response to a shareholder proposal received from New York City Comptroller John C. Liu on behalf of the New York City Pension Funds.

As the workforce becomes more global, enterprises also need the ability to dynamically control Internet video streaming regardless of where the video originates and the size or location of the Read more

IFAW was created four decades ago to protect white-coat harp seals against commercial hunting on the eastern coast of Canada. Today, IFAW is the world’s leading international animal welfare organization focused on saving threatened species and animals in crisis through a variety of campaigns and programs.

Microsoft now is pushing Windows Embedded as the cornerstone of “intelligent systems” — a variation on the “Internet of Things” concept that envisions Read more

If there are potential stumbling blocks, it’s a perceived lack of clear guidance from the feds and insufficient staff training. Only 38 percent of respondents graded the OMB’s guidance on data center consolidation an A or B — still an 8 percentage point increase from May. And only half of respondents said their agencies are “staffed and trained” to manage the data center consolidation effort.

Education is critical to the social and economic development of every nation and to Read more