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- 30 August 2011
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News: CEOs Brace for the Return of Shadow IT
As CEOs press for growth and business leaders find opportunity all around them in today's global economy, an old IT nemesis is back. Shadow or rogue IT is becoming a prominent issue for CIOs once again. And while it's far from new as an IT-management problem, there is now greater risk and complexity involved when business units go rogue and bypass the IT group to set up their own applications, hardware or IT services.
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News: Why CIOs Still Like DIY Software Development
One of my daughter's first complete sentences was a toddler's declaration of independence: "I do it self!"
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News: Google one of many victims in SSL certificate hack
A Dutch company that issues digital certificates used to authenticate websites said late Tuesday that several dozen other websites in addition to Google have been affected by a security breach.
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News: New Relic adds app performance service for Heroku Java users
New Relic is taking its Web application performance service to Java apps running on Heroku's platform.
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News: CCK defends move to switch off counterfeit phones
The Communications Commission of Kenya has defended its decision asking mobile operators to switch off counterfeit handsets, citing rising crime and terrorism as the main reasons.
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News: African nations make push for rural connectivity
As the demand for effective communication in Africa grows, governments are stepping up efforts to roll out mobile and Internet connectivity to rural areas where the majority of Africans live.
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News: Despite criticism, China pumps money into African telecoms
Despite increasing criticism of Chinese investment in Africa's telecom sector, China has provided over US$40 million in loans to Rwanda and Zimbabwe for investment in the telecom sector.
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News: Intel targets gov't business with new subsidiary
Intel has formed a subsidiary charged with growing the company's business relationship with the U.S. government, with the new organization's initial focus on high-performance computing, the company said.
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News: Dell offers hosted apps for SMBs
Just one day after Dell announced its first infrastructure-as-a-service offering, the company is jumping deeper into the cloud. Dell will offer a family of hosted software applications for small and midsized businesses, through partnerships with Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Intuit and others, the computer maker announced Tuesday.
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News: VMworld: Security, regulatory concerns still a challenge in virtualization
While VMware users harbor little doubt about the cost savings and productivity gains brought by virtualizing their networks, security concerns still exist on many fronts, whether it's figuring out how to meet regulatory compliance with auditors, or evaluating cloud services.
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News: Localist gains agility for growth with cloud apps
Cloud processing is ideal for a startup like Localist, says CIO Ken Holley, as it allows ICT capacity to be tailored to volume of business -- which was zero when the NZPost digital subsidiary opened.
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News: Samsung backs VMware mobile hypervisor
Samsung plans to make phones running VMware's mobile hypervisor technology and enterprises may be able to better manage those phones with new software from VMware, the virtualization company is announcing on Tuesday.
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News: Google says Gmail attack focused on Iranian targets
Google said late Sunday that an attack mounted against its Gmail service targeted users primarily located in Iran, although the company has taken steps to block further interception attempts.
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News: Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards
Fusion-io has bundled virtualization software from its IO Turbine acquisition with its PCIe-based solid-state storage adapter card to serve up flash cache to multiple VMs on a single physical server.
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News: Infosys offers business platforms from the cloud
Infosys, India's second largest outsourcer, is offering business platforms on a subscription model from the cloud, as part of its strategy to focus on intellectual property to boost revenue, the company's new CEO and managing director said.
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News: VMware refreshes View virtual desktop software
Keeping pace with its rivals in the VDI (virtual desktop interface) market, VMware has updated its desktop virtualization software so that users can now personalize their desktops and stream them over WANs (wide area networks), the company said Monday.
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News: VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era
VMware CEO Paul Maritz urged customers to think beyond the desktop computer. It is a dead metaphor, he insisted, one ill-suited for today's workforce.
- 29 August 2011
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News: Remains of the Day: Cloudy with a chance of snow
Snow Leopard may be getting support for iCloud, one runner shows his appreciation for Steve Jobs by thinking...different, and this wedding came complete with iPad support. The remainders for Monday, August 29, 2011 are full of pomp and circumstance.
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News: Despite spin-off talk, Air Force picks HP
Even though Hewlett-Packard is considering spinning off or selling its Personal Systems Group, it's still business as usual for one of its larger customers, the U.S. Air Force.
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News: CIO Resume Makeover: Before-and-After Editions
James Jordan had been trying to fund his own healthcare technology company with the profits from his independent IT consulting business for 15 months when he concluded that the embattled healthcare industry was just not ready for his software product and that it was time to start a job search.
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