COLOTRAQ To Be Platinum Sponsor at Channel Partners Expo in Las Vegas — March 12–16th
Win cash when you visit us at Booth 1322 and play the COLOTRAQ Referral Partner game. MORE

COLOTRAQ Relocates Corporate Headquarters
after Banner Year
Driving the move to the new facilities is the need to accommodate increased staff. MORE

Data Center Land Rush Develops Outside D.C.
Hosting vendors are rushing to build data centers in the Washington area, a trend that coincides with an increase in IT outsourcing among federal agencies. MORE

IBM Explores 67.1m-Core Computer for
Running Entire Internet
The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” MORE

Just Two Damaged Cables Bring Internet
Failure to Two Continents
Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope. MORE

The Net’s Core Address Books Are Being Updated
The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net’s core addressing system have been taken. On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6. MORE

SIDE TRAQS

U.S. Dominance in Science at Risk, Report Says
The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia, the National Science Board said on Tuesday in its biennial report on science and engineering. MORE

When Data Center Cabling Becomes Art
From Pingdom: “We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.” MORE

Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong. When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss's phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired. MORE

Six Smart Ways To Grow Small Business IT
The enterprise has a lot to teach small businesses — like these six lessons (some painfully learned) from the big boys on the technology block. MORE

What Are the Most Wired Countries in
the World and Why?
The Internet’s history began in the United States, where Americans had the best access to the Internet's resources for several years. According to technology experts like S. Derek Turner, as more countries began to link to the Internet, a strange thing happened. The U.S. began to lose its dominant position as world leader of Internet access. Other countries began to support Internet access more effectively than the country that invented it. MORE

Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop
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EVENTS CALENDAR

EXPO COMM MEXICO 2007 is the 17th annual international telecommunications, wireless and networking technology exhibition and conference for Mexico and Central America.
February 26–29, 2008 | Mexico City, Mexico MORE

MARCH

The FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference focuses on how to achieve success through a dramatically different lens. Via sessions delivered by some of the world’s foremost thought leaders, you’ll gain a “three-shot,” close-up, “how-to,” view of: What you, the outsourcing or offshoring decision maker, must do in order to succeed; Market factors that will affect the success of your global services delivery; Ways in which all the players — corporations, advisors and providers — must work together to create and sustain success.
March 18–19, 2008 | New York, NY MORE

APRIL

Interop is the leading global technology event, bringing together IT professionals and business leaders to see all of the latest technologies in action.
April 27–May 2, 2008 | New York, NY MORE

IT360° Conference & Expo 2008 is a “teaching conference” where you will learn about current applications and solutions, innovations, tools & technologies, what works and what does not and what is most relevant to your organization.
April 7–9, 2008 | Toronto, Canada MORE

Future-Net addresses the future of communications services from enterprise, service provider, and vendor perspectives. Now in its eighth year, FutureNet continues to evolve from its roots as an event focused strictly on MPLS and related technologies.
April 14–17, 2008 | Boston, MA MORE

MAY

ISPCON Spring 2008 is where the service provider industry goes to GET REAL about the future of their business.
May 13–15, 2008 | Chicago, IL MORE

The Cable Show is the largest convention and exhibition for cable and telecommunications in the United States.
May 18–20, 2008 | New Orleans, LA MORE

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