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Washington Post

Consumers save their e-mail and documents on Google’s data centers, put their photos on Flickr and store their social lives on Facebook. Now a host of companies including Amazon and Microsoft wants government agencies to similarly house data on their servers as a way to cut costs and boost efficiency.

But federal officials say it’s one thing to file away e-mailed jokes from friends, and another to store government data on public servers that could be vulnerable to security breaches. 

A great article, adopting cloud computing might be a great way of providing or procuring elements of the IT service or infrastructure, that said there will be some end users which for issues relating to privacy, liability or operation will prefer to keep their infrastructure and services in house. What we might find is the adoption of those ‘transversal’ cross department services/applications or indeed grid/storage where I know my needs will grow and it’s cheaper to buy it in on a demand basis than keep provisioning infrastructure.

Heb de promosite van halveflesjes.nl aangepast. Kost wat moeite, maar nu tweets ook live daarop te lezen.

Identifying why your help desk calls breach their service agreements need not be difficult.

What’s the oldest server you support? 3 years? 5? How do we set and communicate this?

How many virtual servers per physical device do we want and what level of utilization?

Grid utilization is irrelevant. What matters is that it works for you when it needs to and delivers value

Are we seeing the end of platform support? Is os support being absorbed into the application support teams?

What’s your core barrier to delivery? Is it platform, operating system or application?

Bloomberg

April 6 (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp.’s talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7 billion collapsed after the two companies failed to agree on a price and terms of the deal, a person familiar with the matter said.

Sun’s board, headed by co-founder Scott McNealy, informed Armonk, New York-based IBM on April 4 it was breaking off exclusive negotiations, according to the person. Sun, the developer of the Java programming language, rejected an offer of about $9.40 a share as too low, said the person, who declined to be identified because the talks are private.

The breakdown of what would have been the biggest technology deal of the year raises the pressure for McNealy to find another suitor as the server-maker heads for its biggest annual loss in six years because customers are cutting orders. The offer represented an 11 percent premium to Sun’s latest stock price even after expectations of an agreement drove up the shares 71 percent in the past 2 1/2 weeks.

We’ll have to see if there are any further announcements regarding the deal, I wonder if the deal did complete how this would change/energize competition and innovation of the server/blade platform and the open source community?

@allthesepieces Hello, no clue what is happening… Just send a tweet now and then. What do you mean by ‘updates appearing on my page’?