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Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo About 70 per cent of a facility's economics are determined before you break ground, Microsoft executives said. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility is... [04 Nov 2009]
Virtualization and the New Economics of IT
White Paper Part of the "Masters of Virtualization" Series from IDG, Dell and Microsoft. [15 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing
White Paper Cloud computing promises to change the economics of the data center, but before sensitive and regulated data move into the public cloud, issues of security standards and compatibility must be addressed including strong... [05 Oct 2009]
Partnering With Microsoft Dynamics: Eight Steps to Profitability
White Paper This White Paper conveys findings from the second such Partner Economics Survey, executed by MSI International between February 28 and May 14, 2007. A total of 218 partners from around the world responded to the survey... [02 Oct 2009]
Chris Anderson
AS Profile By removing the constraints of physicality - and levelling the economics of distribution - businesses don't need to rely only on popular products to turn a profit. 'The Long Tail' is the name of a 2004 article in Wired... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive technology", adding it "could impact and change many areas of business, society, politics, economics etc". It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that... [29 Sep 2009]
SAS9 at the Warsaw School of Economics: Educating Poland's Future Business Elite
White Paper Founded in 1906, the Warsaw School of Economics is the oldest economics university in Poland and one of Europe's leading management schools, with some 16,000 students, 3,000 of whom are doing... [19 Sep 2009]
HP Adaptive Infrastructure Solution Security: For HP BladeSystem Matrix
White Paper The HP BladeSystem Matrix (Matrix) solution is an in the box, cloud infrastructure that brings the economics, scalability, and response times of the cloud to diverse applications across data center. The BladeSystem... [02 Sep 2009]
The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
White Paper Investors are looking for transparency beyond the basic economics to better understand how businesses operate and perform. Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Livedoor, and others... [02 Sep 2009]
8 Strategies to Transform the Economics of Retailing
White Paper Through creative strategies, enabled by powerful technology, retailers now have the unprecedented opportunity to transform the economics of their businesses. Download this FREE white paper to learn more about 8 business... [30 Aug 2009]
The Economics of Green IT: Start Saving Money
White Paper CIOs pay millions of dollars a year to power and cool data centers. Many enterprises, some for the first time this year, have shifted the energy bill from facilities to IT, with the hope - and expectation - that IT can lower energy costs. [29 Aug 2009]
Application of Data Mining in Failure Data Analysis
White Paper The paper outlines the application of two data mining techniques for the automatic processing of failure data. The first solutions aims at identifying those parts of a complex HW/SW system built up of COTS components whose... [29 Aug 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News By having the geodata available only to developers, though, and not via the general Twitter.com user interface, the company may also shift the economics of Twitter a bit. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced... [21 Aug 2009]
IT Economics: Streamlining Application Performance Management With Extended Visibility and Visualization
White Paper This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with todays economic and operational IT challenges. The paper identifies the types of application performance management capabilities IT teams need to maintain... [15 Aug 2009]
