Forrester: Discontent persists over SAP maintenance hike
Some users say they connect with SAP only a handful of times each year -- meaning they are being forced to pay a premium for service they never request. Read more...

Struggling AMD Spins Off Its Fab Operations

Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing

Google seeks patent to break mobile subscriber shackles

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IBM launches four new cloud computing centers outside the U.S.

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IT budgets suffer more shrinkage

Report: Dell looking to sell off manufacturing plants

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Cut IT costs with outside-the-box thinking
From using Web 2.0 and prosumer technologies to putting the business and the CFO to work, here are five imaginative ways to cut IT costs today.

Q&A: Praveen Asthana, Dell's director of enterprise storage
At Storage Networking World, Praveen Asthana, Dell's director of enterprise storage, said his company will expand its backup and disaster recovery services. He also sees a day when Fibre Channel will no longer be used and when Ethernet becomes the unifying fabric between servers and storage.

RFID's real ROI is in IT's own backyard
RFID is often viewed as a solution in search of a problem, but recent studies show that tracking IT assets is one application where the technology shines.

Gathering Green
Companies that are moving to green IT are motivated by cost savings, market advantages and concern for the planet. Here's how to get started today, move greenly into tomorrow and plan for a verdant future.

Security ROI: Fact or fiction?
When it comes to cyber security, all the ROI models fall apart. Here's why, and what you should do to make the most of your security dollars.

Network management: Tips for managing costs
One strategy: consolidate the physical network infrastructure by finding ways to make the switch that's at the core of the network perform more functions.

Opinion: Code swapping and taking time writing software
Failing to consider the longer-term ramifications of design decisions can lead to substantial lost productivity both in trying to diagnose and patch problems, and then rewriting the code where necessary.

Virtualization thwarts green OS initiatives
Hypervisors make moot some CPU-oriented green initiatives because the virtualization software subscribes to the "get the best performance per watt used" school of thought.

Pepsi bottler swallows skepticism, gives virtualization a go
This midsize firm is saving between $11,000 and $13,000 a year because of storage and server virtualization. The project leader is now a huge virtualization fan.

Opinion: Unified communications with ROI in mind
Discovering value in UC comes from understanding its potential to fundamentally change the way we communicate, collaborate and get work done.

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