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St. Petersburg Times – Jul 24, 2006
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Stock Scandal: Who’s Next?
Forbes – Jul 24, 2006
Dozens of companies have voluntarily disclosed that their stock option grants are under investigation, and the U. Securities and Exchange Commission said last week that it has targeted more than 80 firms so far. But that’s just the “tip of the iceberg,” according to former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt. Speaking in a live Forbes… Similarly, Pitt says, most companies refuse to acknowledge problems until the SEC forces them to. The government has no problem stepping in when corporations fail to self-regulate. On July 20, federal prosecutors announced that they had filed criminal charges against two former executives of data-storage maker Brocade Communications Systems (nasdaq:.
Amazon founder’s spaceport plans moving forward
USA Today – Jul 24, 2006
com founder Jeff Bezos. Under the banner of a Seattle-area company called… The park contains many of the highest mountains in Texas, including the signature 8,085-foot El Capitan. It can be seen from a distance on Bezos’ property amid desert and cattle-grazing terrain and salt lake beds. Construction would cover 223 acres with buildings, launch and landing pads, storage tanks and parking lots, but that’s just over 1% of the land. New fencing would be needed to enclose the actual launch site area, defined as some 18,600 acres of desert scrubland and grassland now in use as a private wildlife management area. Within that fenced area is the likely landing area if something goes wrong with a flight. “In some rare cases, the vehicles may land outside the fence line,” the report says. “However, in nearly all cases, the vehicles will stay within the boundaries of private land controlled by Blue Origin and present no danger to the public.
In Depth: In Slaying Legacy IT Costs, The Data Center Is A Good Place…
InformationWeek – Jul 24, 2006
Which server is running the business-critical ERP system and which is being used for an internal test bed? Which server is operating at a low usage rate, making the application running on it a candidate for moving to a virtual server on another physical machine?For many companies, consolidating data center resources is the first major step toward bringing costs under control. In an IDC survey of 400 senior IT executives, 60% view consolidation as an important step in improving operational efficiency, and 80% are engaged in a consolidation project. The goal is to to free up dollars and personnel from maintenance and management tasks and create an infrastructure flexible enough to react to business changes and problems, IDC analyst Matthew Eastwood says. More Infrastructure Insights
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Webcasts… “In the end, we were able to get a better definition of what responsibilities were to be assigned within each department. MyFamily was able to cut equipment costs by implementing a strategy around building its own blade servers, and it’s now adding about 250 blades per month. Its biggest hardware outlay is for storage, which it mainly buys from Network Appliance. The final piece of the effort was to deploy CA’s Unicenter system management suite to ensure that the ITIL and Microsoft Operations Framework and processes were implemented and enforced. The payoff is the company now manages more than 4,000 servers with only a half-dozen system administrators, Martineau says. Small-Biz FrustrationGHY International shows how companies don’t have to be big to use advanced data center tools to get IT maintenance costs under control.
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