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“8 Questions To Ask Before Going Live In The Cloud” by InformationWeek

“8 Questions To Ask Before Going Live In The Cloud” by InformationWeek contributor Michael Healey. Each question digs into one of those hard details, the kind that just might trip up an effort to put cloud computing to business use. Healey raises deceptively simple questions-like “Why’s it slow?” and “What’s the support plan?”-and brings out […]

20 % Discount for RuleML-2009

MIT CIO Members Receive a 20 % Discount for RuleML-2009 http://2009.ruleml.org Registration Open https://www.etouches.com/brf09 This annual International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications RuleML-2009 (http://2009.ruleml.org) brings together the best minds from around the world to discuss and exchange new ideas, standards, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and applications of rules […]

The hype about Twitter and how you can be a part of it – The 7 tips you can use!

Of late there has been much press and hype about twitter… so much so that it is pulling in millions more to sign up for twitter accounts. But a majority of these people on twitter do not really know what to do. A recent study conducted at Harvard Business School on Twitter showed that the […]

Stanford Physicists Identify Replacement for Silicon Chips

June 18, 2009 7:20AM http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=102007TTOPGC&nl=5 The discovery comes as engineers fear they are reaching the end of their ability to increase the number of components that fit on silicon chips. This miniaturization trend, dubbed Moore’s Law after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, roughly doubles computing power every two years. The new discovery is part of a […]

Cloud Computing: 10 Questions For Federal CIO Vivek Kundra

Vikek Kundra discuss his thoughts about cloud computing in government, and what it would take to make cloud technologies easier to adopt in the federal space. By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek June 17, 2009 Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is well known for innovative approaches to government IT. He introduced Google Apps to the city of […]