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INDUSTRY NEWS

Data Centers Make Cover of Sunday Times Magazine
The importance of infrastructure is gaining popular attention. MORE

HP vs. Cisco: A Data Center Smackdown Looms?
Despite an overwhelming dominance of the networking business, Cisco has a target painted on its back, in the eyes of Hewlett-Packard. MORE

Hot Data Center Jobs: Cloud, Virtualization, Green
In recent days, “less bad” has become the favored description of much of the economy, including the IT industry. However, the number of positions needed for efficient operation of data centers has remained strong, continuing to show overall growth even in a down economy. MORE

Debt Markets Open, Construction to Follow
The credit crunch has had a meaningful impact on data center supply, sidelining many projects that weren’t fully funded prior to the meltdown on Wall Street last fall. But the deep freeze in the credit markets appears to be thawing . . . MORE

U.S. CTO: Infrastructure Growth Needs Private Sector Investment
The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can’t do it, the nation’s first chief technology officer said today. It’s going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of “hundreds of billions” of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up to its global peers. MORE

Why Microsoft, Google and Amazon are Racing to Run Your Data Center
The race for your data center has already begun. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are the leading players in a global data center build-out that has not been slowed by the current economic recession and that over next decade will change the face of both consumer computing and IT departments. MORE

SIDE TRAQS

Barry Diller: The Internet ‘Absolutely’ Will Become a ‘Paid System’ within 5 Years
The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. MORE

FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cell phone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it. MORE

Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease in Science Class
For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school. During a science class, Jessica Terry, 18, discovered a tell-tale granuloma in her own pathology slide. MORE

Texting May Be Taking a Toll
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt. MORE

Science Academies: Renewable Power Tech Ready for Big Growth
The US National Academies of Science has looked at the potential for renewable power in its home country, and determined that current solar and wind technologies could probably scale to supply 20 percent of our electricity. Beyond that, however, we’re going to need to fix the grid. MORE

GPS Blamed for Home Demolition
Homeowner Al Byrd relayed a conversation with the wrecking crew in which they indicated that the GPS coordinates led them to that address and the house matched the description they had. A terrible mistake resulted in a house that Byrd’s father built himself in 1950 and still held family heirlooms being completely leveled. MORE

EVENTS CALENDAR

June

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit dives into the issues that matter most to your business, including IT operations management, virtualization, IT modernization, infrastructure consolidation, business resilience and much more.
June 23–29, 2009 | Orlando, FL MORE

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