Who will operate the cloud?
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If any of the large system vendors truly believe that a highly concentrated compute utility is the future, it's unclear why they should be embracing the role of passive arms merchant given how little control they would have over their own destiny in such
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Details are scarce at this point, but the next client OS will have a "fundamental piece of enabling technology," a Microsoft executive said this week, such as a hypervisor or new type of interface.
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IBM will donate 500 patents for free use. Also:  Yahoo joins Google with hard drive search engine & hellip;.  Inconclusive report on cell phones: Are they a health hazard? & hellip;. and more.
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Business & money: Today's decision will define the future of the world's biggest software group.
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A Gartner Group report on PC hardware sales in emerging global markets has stirred up controversy in both the open-source and proprietary software worlds. Eighty percent of personal computers sold in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that ship with the Linux operating system eventually will be running a pirated copy of Windows, predicts Gartner.
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I can imagine the mass deployment of virtualized storage controllers. The heyday of RAID controllers is coming to an end. It has me thinking about the mass consumption of virtualization, which leads me to another thought: the mass deployment of embedded virtualized processes.
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A jury's $1.52 billion judgment against Microsoft hangs a sudden, unexpected cloud over MP3. This could be the opening open-source advocates have been waiting for. By Eliot Van Buskirk and Evan Hansen.
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Surprise, surprise. Microsoft apparently uses its operating system software monopoly to dominate new markets. That, at least, is what European courts have just determined.
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?
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European antitrust regulators extend their review of Microsoft-Time Warner deal. Also: Gateway plans to sell desktops at CompUSA & hellip;. Vodafone's Japanese unit headhunts an executive from rival NTT DoCoMo & hellip;. and more.
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Microsoft chief provides a few more details on company's effort to build a set of services in the Internet cloud.
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Application delivery to define future IT The ability to deliver usable applications to employees anywhere they happen to be will define the future of IT says Mark Templeton, chief executive officer of infrastructure software specialist Citrix.â¦
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EU-Google negotiations going swimmingly The head of Europe's privacy watchdogs said that he is still in negotiations with Google about a major data retention dispute and is confident that the search giant will change its policies.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Your data center gets the job done today, but how will it handle increasing demands of the future, especially fundamentals such as power and cooling?
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Plus: More DRM standards, and a self-encrypting hard drive.
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Opinion: The company&#39;s decision to keep per-processor licensing for upcoming multicore technology is a win for customers, but of more immediate licensing concern are grid, partitioning and utility computing.
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IBM will run the contract and provide mainframe and server consolidation and IT operations for the Texas state government. Contract partners Unisys Corp. will provide data center operations and facilities management.