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INDUSTRY NEWS
Gartner: No
Relief for Data
Center Costs
The future holds
no comfort for
data centers
aching over
energy
consumption and
floor space,
predicts
Gartner.
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Data Center
Greening
Agreement Debuts
The Data
Management
Institute and
Archive
Management.org (AMO)
have
collaborated on
a joint
initiative to
develop a
strategic
approach for
Data Center
greening, at the
Storage
Decisions
conference.
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Google Wins
Patent For Data
Center in a Box;
Trouble for Sun,
Rackable, IBM?
The idea comes
at a time when
industry experts
predict a
worsening space
crunch for data
centers due to
high performance
demands and
expensive real
estate prices.
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Gartner Urges
Action on Data
Center Emissions
The intense
power
requirements
needed to run
and cool data
centers now
account for
almost a quarter
of global carbon
dioxide
emissions from
information and
communications
technology,
according to
analyst firm
Gartner.
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Qwest Was
Targeted,
‘Classified
Info’ Was Not
Allowed at
Ex-CEO’s Trial
The National
Security Agency
and other
government
agencies
retaliated
against Qwest
because the
Denver telco
refused to go
along with a
phone spying
program,
documents
released
Wednesday
suggest.
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VMware: New
King of the Data
Center?
Second — and
perhaps more
significant —
the hypervisor
is becoming the
main mediator
among the
components of a
data center
ecosystem.
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SIDE TRAQS
Silicon
Valley Start-Ups
Awash in
Dollars, Again
Internet
companies with
funny names,
little revenue
and few
customers are
commanding high
prices. And
investors,
having seemingly
forgotten the
pain of the
first dot-com
bust, are
displaying
symptoms of the
disorder known
as irrational
exuberance.
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Scientists
Invent 30 Year
Continuous
Power Laptop
Battery
Your next laptop
could have a
continuous power
battery that
lasts for 30
years without a
single recharge
thanks to work
being funded by
the U.S. Air
Force Research
Laboratory.
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What Was
behind the Honey
Bee Wipeout?
Everyone has a
theory why the
honeybees
started dying
off. Try
malnutrition.
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Developing
World Cracks
Glass Ceiling
Women in
developing
countries find
it easier to
break through
the so-called
glass ceiling
than their
colleagues in
the west,
according to a
global study by
PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Buffett,
Darfur, Mutual
Funds and
Myanmar
By now, you’ve
probably read
that Berkshire
Hathaway, the
investment firm
led by Warren
Buffett, has
sold most if not
all of its
holdings in
PetroChina.
PetroChina is
the publicly
listed unit of
the China
National
Petroleum Co.,
which has come
under harsh
criticism for
doing business
with the
repressive
government of
Sudan.
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EVENTS CALENDAR
OCTOBER
CTIA
WIRELESS IT &
Entertainment
2007
focuses on the
integration of
wireless data
technologies
into the
enterprise
through vertical
business markets
such as
healthcare,
government,
automotive,
retail etc. as
well as the
explosive growth
in wireless
entertainment—encompassing
everything from
music downloads
to digital
cameras to
interactive
games. CTIA
WIRELESS IT &
Entertainment®
is the most
well-attended
mobile data
convention in
the industry,
attracting more
than 15,000
attendees, 300
exhibitors and
more than 600
members of the
media and
analyst
communities.
October 23–25,
2007 | San
Francisco,
California
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Data
Center Decisions
Conference
brings
together the
biggest names in
virtualization,
design, DR and
executive to arm
attendees with
the info they
need to solve
their data
center
challenges.
October 22–23,
2007 | Chicago,
Illinois
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NOVEMBER
IT
Infrastructure
Management
Conference &
Expo
This year’s
event will offer
an all-new
highly valuable
conference
program
including more
than 45 sessions
on topics
relating to
emerging
technologies IT
leadership and
business
integration
network
optimization
technology
innovation
security
governance and
compliance IT
service
management and
ITIL — in order
to help you
select acquire
deploy and
maintain your IT
infrastructure.
November 6–9,
2007 | Los
Vegas, Nevada
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FT World
Telecommunications
Conference
has
established its
reputation as
the must-attend
event for all
senior
strategists and
decision makers
from across the
telecoms
industry who
want to get “the
big picture”
from the leading
economists and
who want to hear
the latest
thinking from
the big names in
industry and
from leading
investors.
November 7–8,
2007 | London,
United Kingdom
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DECEMBER
Intelligence
Support Systems
for Lawful
Interception,
Investigative
Analysis and
Network Security
Conference and
Expo is
the world’s
largest
gathering of
telecommunications
service
providers,
government
intercept policy
makers, law
enforcement
agents,
investigative
analysts,
prosecutors and
vendors
addressing
lawful
interception
issues and
solutions. Now
that most
nations of the
world require
lawful
interception
support of VoIP
and other
IP-based
services, ISS
World Fall 2006
is a must attend
event.
December 10–12,
2007 |
Washington, DC
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