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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
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Distance from Earth: Voyager is three times farther away than Pluto. That's to say at least 4 billion kilometers, times three.
Distance from the sun: 15.44 terameters.
Distance logged per day: 1 million miles.
Years old: Almost 30, having launched on Sept. 5, 1977.
Places it's dropped by: Jupiter and Saturn, on the way to the edge of space as we know it.
How it communicates with Earth: Uses NASA's Deep Space Network, a system of antennas around the Earth. There's no IM out here: Signals traveling at light speed take 14 hours one-way to reach Voyager.
Daily to-do list: Collects data on solar wind, energetic particles, magnetic fields and radio waves.
Powered by: Radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
Power needed: About 300 watts, the amount of power needed for a bright lightbulb.
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