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<item><title>Data Centers Go Modular</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:05:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Prefabricated data centers can add serious efficiencies to construction, management, and operations.   -  A report from The Green Grid indicates that organizations benefit enormously by adapting a modular and prefabricated approach to data center construction. 
The report, Deploying And Using Containerized Modular Data Center Facilities, found that pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers eliminat...]]></description>
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<item><title>Planning Your Data Center Strategy</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:26:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Step one in a data center plan is deciding whether to rebuild or start fresh.   -  Enterprises looking to revamp their strategies around data center optimization and utilization face the initial decision of whether to build from scratch or to retool their existing systems. 
Creating a new data center from scratch allows an organization to plan for the greatest amount of customiza...]]></description>
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<item><title>Extreme Makeover for Data Centers</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:26:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Virtualization, green IT, and cloud computing are helping organizations transform their computing resources.   -  Data centers are beginning to look quite different from the energy-guzzling, inflexible server farms of the past. Many organizations are leveraging server virtualization, energy-efficient systems, or integration between internal data centers and public cloud services to boost efficiency, reduce cost...]]></description>
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<item><title>Facebook and Google Build Their Own Servers</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:22:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Big Internet companies find they can build better servers for their needs than they can buy.   -  Only a few years ago, the idea of a company building its own servers would have seemed preposterous. But times change. A growing number of companies, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, are bypassing the likes of HP, IBM and Dell and taking matters into their own hands in order to get the spe...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud's Next Benefit: Helping Companies Grow</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:05:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As cloud computing becomes a key part of IT ecosystems, its strategic importance to the businesses it supports will grow.   -  If an IT leader works for a company that isn't named Amazon, Google or Facebook, chances are it hasn't gotten a big revenue boost from the cloud. It's much more likely that the company has used the cloud to cut costs, replace a standalone software application or back up older documents.

Research ...]]></description>
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<item><title> L`Oréal`s Manufacturing Makeover</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new central IT system for process information improved efficiency by ensuring uniform production, quality and process methodologies at L´Oréals worldwide operations.   -  Summary: LOréal implemented a manufacturing systems overhaul to streamline processes, create a new technology framework and enable disparate locations around the world to share information and best practices more effectively. Jacques Playe, CIO, Operations, at the Paris-based cosmetics corporation, ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Inside an Energy Efficient Data Center</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:18:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Emerson Electrics 35,000-square-foot global data center is 31 percent more energy efficient than traditional data centers, a setup that promises substantial cost savings.   -  See also: Business Value Powers Green IT, Cooling Data Center Costs 
Emerson Electric, a $20.9 billion technology manufacturer, offers a glimpse of the future of green IT. The firms 35,000-square-foot global data center, located at its St. Louis headquarters, is 31 percent more energy efficient tha...]]></description>
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<item><title>Convergence For Intelligent Building Systems</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:08:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For a long time, IT and BAS were developed separately, but the convergence of the two is inevitable as buildings become “smarter.”   -  The rapid evolution of building automation systems is having a huge impact on facilities and those responsible for IT. For a long time, IT and BAS were developed separately, each focusing on individual technology developments and moving down the path of least resistance to market. But the convergenc...]]></description>
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<item><title>Intel, AMD Ramp Up Chip Core Count</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Intel's Xeon 7500 Series &quot;Nehalem EX&quot; chips offer up to eight cores per processor. AMD's Opteron 6100 Series &quot;Magny-Cours&quot; chips hold eight to 12 cores.   -  At the upcoming Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, Calif., Intel officials will talk about  quot;Westmere EX, quot; which could include up to 10 cores per chip. For its part, AMD will discuss its upcoming  quot;Bulldozer quot; platform, which will offer up to 16 cores per chip.

Dell officials are...]]></description>
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<item><title>Getting Started With BPI </title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:32:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Many companies have capitalized on the benefits of business process improvement, including productivity gains, cost savings, reduced project lead times and the integration of key technologies to reduce supply-chain costs.   -  In these tight economic times, businesses need all the help they can get to cut overhead and improve processes. There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of business process improvement (BPI) software vendors, but knowing where to get started is difficult, and implementing the technology can be expensive...]]></description>
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<item><title>Capturing Value From Business Process Improvement</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:32:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Business processes occupy the middle ground of enterprise architecture: They are driven by the business model and, in turn, drive the technology model. Although business processes are well-positioned to be a source of significant value, you need to take a holistic approach to understand their impact on your business.   -  If you want your organization to get the most value from improving its business processes, youll need clarity, vision and a holistic approach that navigates the complex linkages among the various communities that exist in every enterprise, including general business managers and technology managers....]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud Computing: Clearing Away Infrastructure Muck</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:07:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How cloud computing can help IT managers overcome infrastructure hurdles like cost and hardware provisioning.   -  Marketing has approached you with an interesting idea for an interactive gaming application that could go viral in a big way and draw hundreds of thousands of visitors millions even to your Website. The research for the game, dubbed Project X, is done, the numbers look good and everyone is excited a...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Pace of Going Green</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:16:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[BT in North America interviewed 150 IT workers from a wide range of organizations to get a feel for their businesses attitudes, policies and procedures around green IT.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Mid-Market IT Priorities</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:53:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM asked nearly 1,900 IT decision-makers at midsize organizations about their top IT priorities in 2009 and beyond. The survey found five specific trends that IBM highlighted for readers in its report, Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Fund-Raising on the Fast Track</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:23:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When the Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society upgraded its fund-raising systems and infrastructure, it experienced a tremendous boost in both site performance and user satisfaction.   -  The Leukemia  amp; Lymphoma Society, which depends on donations to fund its research, was experiencing a major shift in its fund-raising volume from offline to online channels. That put a strain on the organizations existing fund-raising systems and infrastructure, prompting LLS to look for an alter...]]></description>
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