http://www.cio.com/ en (c) Copyright 2009 CXO Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:44:17 GMT 2009-07-10T06:44:17Z en (c) Copyright 2009 CXO Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.cio.com/article/496965/Crime_Lab_Saves_Energy_Costs_By_Turning_Up_Heat_in_the_Data_Center IT Roadmap speakers will share tips on green IT, virtualization and building resilient data centers. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Jon Brodkin <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496965/Crime_Lab_Saves_Energy_Costs_By_Turning_Up_Heat_in_the_Data_Center 2009-07-09T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496955/EMC_Heats_Up_Competition_with_Data_Center_Big_Four Who's afraid of HP, IBM, CA and BMC? Not EMC, which just upped its stake in the data center management tools game. But does it have all the cards that it needs? Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Kevin Fogarty <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496955/EMC_Heats_Up_Competition_with_Data_Center_Big_Four 2009-07-09T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496919/VirtualBox_._an_Easy_Way_to_Mix_and_Match_Operating_Systems Sun's VirtualBox lets you install multiple operating systems, offering greater speed and ease of use than its competitors. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496919/VirtualBox_._an_Easy_Way_to_Mix_and_Match_Operating_Systems 2009-07-09T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496915/EMC_Fine_Tunes_Its_Management_Software_Portfolio EMC announces its Ionix IT management software suite that the vendor says will help customer more easily manage physical, virtual and cloud IT environments. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Denise Dubie <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496915/EMC_Fine_Tunes_Its_Management_Software_Portfolio 2009-07-08T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496856/Cloud_and_Web_._Insights_from_Structure_Conference At GigaOM's Structure 09 Conference, CIO.com cloud guru Bernard Golden gained some perspective on bandwidth fears, commodity hardware questions, and real-life cloud challenges from companies already racing to keep up with computing demand. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Bernard Golden <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496856/Cloud_and_Web_._Insights_from_Structure_Conference 2009-07-08T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496836/Vendor_Links_Firewalls_to_VMware_Hypervisor Altor Networks has rewritten its firewall for virtual machines so the software plugs directly into VMware hypervisors, boosting the performance of the firewall by a factor of 10, the company says. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Tim Greene <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496836/Vendor_Links_Firewalls_to_VMware_Hypervisor 2009-07-07T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496832/Symantec_De_Duplication_Strategy_Targets_Data_Growth_Virtual_Machines Symantec is expanding its de-duplication capabilities across several backup products slated to be released this year and in 2010. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Jon Brodkin <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496832/Symantec_De_Duplication_Strategy_Targets_Data_Growth_Virtual_Machines 2009-07-07T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496734/Google_Scrubs_Apps_Clean_of_Beta_Labels Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Juan Carlos Perez <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496734/Google_Scrubs_Apps_Clean_of_Beta_Labels 2009-07-07T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496707/Google_Scrubs_Apps_Clean_of_Beta_Labels Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Juan Carlos Perez <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496707/Google_Scrubs_Apps_Clean_of_Beta_Labels 2009-07-07T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496672/Two_Microsoft_Partners_Embrace_the_Software_Plus_Services_Mantra Two Microsoft partners are embracing the software maker's software and services mantra and will resell its Business Productivity Online Suite. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Eric Lai <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496672/Two_Microsoft_Partners_Embrace_the_Software_Plus_Services_Mantra 2009-07-06T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496645/Rackspace_to_Issue_As_Much_As_._M_in_Customer_Credits_After_Outage Rackspace is being forced to pay out between $2.5 million and $3.5 million in service credits to customers in the wake of a power outage that hit its Dallas data center last week. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Jon Brodkin <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496645/Rackspace_to_Issue_As_Much_As_._M_in_Customer_Credits_After_Outage 2009-07-06T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496634/The_Tech_Industry_s_Most_Baffling_Buzzwords_a_Brief_Guide A handy guide to the tech industry's most impenetrable buzzwords, slogans and catch phrases. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Brad Reed <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496634/The_Tech_Industry_s_Most_Baffling_Buzzwords_a_Brief_Guide 2009-07-06T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496632/Google_Freebie_Puts_School_System_in_the_Apps_Cloud The freebie that Google is offering to educational institutions for its Google Apps service is sending some school systems into the cloud for e-mail and archiving. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Ellen Messmer <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496632/Google_Freebie_Puts_School_System_in_the_Apps_Cloud 2009-07-06T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496610/Cloud_Interoperability_Remains_Wispy_but_Progress_Being_Made Vendors and industry groups are paying lip service to cloud interoperability. Will it lead to real results? Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Jon Brodkin <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496610/Cloud_Interoperability_Remains_Wispy_but_Progress_Being_Made 2009-07-06T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/496573/Toe_in_the_Cloud In these tough economic times it is increasingly common for C-level executives to come to IT saying: "I've read about that cloud computing thing. Why aren't we using the cloud instead of buying so many servers?" But is the cloud ready? As any good engineer would say, the answer is "it depends." Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT John Engates <info@cio.com> http://www.cio.com/article/496573/Toe_in_the_Cloud 2009-07-05T04:00:00Z