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News How does a business pay less for its IT services when it's already getting them at rock bottom prices? It takes a long hard look at whether it needs to be gobbling up so many services in the first place. [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Oracle's readiness to pay billions of dollars for open source assets should be seen as a positive thing for open source. In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to... [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment It has nothing to do with critiquing the pros and cons of a particular technology but rather strangely enough with the financial accounting of how we pay for technology. My advice: before you sign your next services or... [19 Nov 2009]
Business Productivity Online Suite - Communicate Success
White Paper With BPOS, you pay only for the tools you use, based on a predictable monthly fee, and the tools and data are supported by Microsoft to ensure your data is highly secure. Learn how to boost your team's productivity and... [16 Nov 2009]
Intel and AMD bury the hatchet with $1.25bn deal
News Intel will pay AMD $1.25bn in the deal. All outstanding legal disputes between Intel and AMD have been settled, and the companies have signed a five-year cross-licensing deal. The settlement, announced yesterday, ends... [13 Nov 2009]
Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters
White Paper Cloud storage solutions promise high scalability and low cost. Existing solutions, however, differ in the degree of consistency they provide. Its experience using such systems indicates that there is a non-trivial trade-off between cost... [12 Nov 2009]
The Truth About Wasteful Spending on Software: How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Applications You Don't Use
White Paper A fair software license agreement would allow company to pay for software that employees are actually using. Indeed, most software vendors pay lip-service to this idea of paying for software on the basis... [12 Nov 2009]
Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services
White Paper In novel market-oriented resource sharing models resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service (QoS), are satisfied. [12 Nov 2009]
Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings
White Paper In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service (QoS), are satisfied. [12 Nov 2009]
Rights Management: A History of Rights Management and DRM
White Paper Although it seems pretty obvious to some people that one should be able to decide who can read information that one has created, and perhaps pay for that pleasure, it helps to understand a little about how the idea of... [12 Nov 2009]
Lessons in Wireless for K-12 Schools
White Paper With advances in the security, management and investment protection of wireless network equipment, schools can roll out a pervasive wireless network today and gain economic and technological benefits that will pay back... [12 Nov 2009]
Adding the Easy Button to the Cloud With SnowFlock and MPI
White Paper Those APIs usually take several minutes to perform their VM-management tasks, forcing users to keep VMs idling and pay for unused processing time, rather than shut VMs down and power them on as needed. [12 Nov 2009]
Digital Rights Management - DRM: An Introduction to DRM
White Paper Speculation that web costs are zero may be correct for the end user, but studies have demonstrated that information service providers actually pay to have their information made available on the web. DRM offers industry... [12 Nov 2009]
Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
White Paper Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT... [12 Nov 2009]
Enabling Disparate Biometric Devices to Increase Security, Centralize Password Administration and Lower the Cost of Operations
White Paper The explosive growth in IT infrastructures now requires organizations to pay critical attention to the security of user credentials. An organization must now verify user identity, consolidate the management of a vast... [11 Nov 2009]
