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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.
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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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Seven Wonders of the IT World
The fastest supercomputer. The most intriguing data center. The constantly changing core at the heart of Linux. Take a tour of the most impressive and most unusual marvels of the IT world.
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World's largest scientific grid computing project:
The E-sciencE II (EGEE-II) project
Launched: September 2006, for use by scientists around the world.
Helps power: Large-scale scientific research projects in fields from geology to chemistry—for example, will analyze data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator being built to help investigate details around the Big Bang and related physics questions.
Amount of work it does: 98,000 jobs a day, more than 1 million per month.
Juggling ability: Runs about 30,000 jobs concurrently, on average.
Number of sites connected to the EGEE infrastructure: About 240.
Number of countries connected to the EGEE infrastructure: 45.
Number of CPUs available to users, 24/7: More than 36,000.
Storage capacity available: About 5 PB disk space (5 million GB).
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