“The days of buying big and growing into your data center are over. Trends such as modular equipment, virtualization and customized cooling mean IT can reduce costs by starting small.”

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“EMC started Atmos Online a little more than a year ago, but the service never took off, according to industry analysts.

An EMC spokesman said as the number of service providers adopting EMC Atmos technology continues to expand, the company decided not to announce the general availability of the Atmos Online storage service for production use.

"The strength of the Atmos ecosystem is predominantly based on the service providers who deliver Atmos-based services and [Internet service providers] who integrate with the technology," he said. "EMC will focus on evolving this ecosystem and allow Atmos Online to take a supporting role."

EMC said Atmos Online will remain available strictly as a development environment to foster adoption of Atmos technology and Atmos cloud services "offered by our continuously expanding range of Service Provider partners who offer production services."”

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The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released.

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“Insourcing—the process of bringing back in-house IT work that had been outsourced—is in style. Bob Mathers, principal consultant with Compass Management Consulting, points to recent high-profile IT and business process outsourcing initiatives that were brought back inside Chrysler, Delta Air Lines (DAL), Barclays and AT&T as evidence of the insourcing trend.”

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“Enterprises today are challenged with gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage, while at the same time reducing overall costs, especially IT costs.  Technologies such as virtualization and tools allow for automation of processes, capacity planning and resource management, amongst other things, that allow for more efficiencies than we have seen in the past. These tools in turn, make IT resource capacity much more available, flexible and powerful.”

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“VMware customers will be disappointed to learn that not only will the next generation of the company's virtual desktop software be late, but VMware also dropped the profile management feature from RTO Software.”

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