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Intel shuts plants in the Philippines, Malaysia
News Close to 3,000 employees in the two countries will be affected, as chipmaker restructures its manufacturing operations--a move that also impacts two U.S. plants.
Tags: Processors, Budgeting/cost control, Operations, Global strategic management, Intel Corp., Asia, Philippines, Manufacturing, Asia-Pacific, Malaysia
People, documents must tie in with BPM
News Business process management should be integrated with people and documents, as well as Web 2.0 tools, to be relevant, says BPM exec.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business, Global 360 Inc., job, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Training, Enterprise 2.0, Business Process
Global drug firm opens M'sian IT center
News GlaxoSmithKline sets up US$17.7 million tech center in Malaysia, its first in Asia, to support company's global operations and networks across 85 countries.
Tags: Services, Data centers, Outsourcing, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., U.K., Information Technology, revenue, GSK, Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
Google spotlights data center inner workings
News Search colossus manages to demystify itself a little while also showing just how exotic its infrastructure really is.
Tags: Search, Operations, Google Inc., Machine, Server, Red Hat Global File System, software, processor, hard drive, co-founder
Intellectual property: Do you have a leak?
Techguide Is your organization's intellectual property floating around the Internet? Not sure? Here are some ways to check.
Tags: Security, Operations, Twitter, RSS, Google Inc., Michael Kassner, Small And Medium Business, P2P, intellectual property, e-mail
Aust govt sets up new CERT
News Australian government launches in-depth cybersecurity strategy, which includes establishment of a new Computer Emergency Response Team to rival existing AusCERT.
Tags: Government, Network security, Security Management, PC security, cybersecurity workforce, Cybersecurity, AusCERT, Information And Communication Technology, Identity Theft, cyberthreats
Are telcos new drivers of outsourcing industry?
Blogs The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where a few very large telco-to-telco contracts--instance...
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Hidden costs mean open source software isn't always an IT budget stretcher, tech chiefs in the United Kingdom say.
Tags: Cost control, Open source, Open Source, Director Of Information Technology, software, Information Technology, IT Budget, Open-source Software, CIO, Silicon.com
Microsoft reverses decision on Exchange 2007 support
News After notifying customers and partners that Exchange Server 2007 wouldn't be able to run on Windows Server 2008 R2, the Exchange team has reversed its decision.
Tags: E-mail servers, Microsoft Corp., Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, blog, general manager, blog posting
A recessionary sense of deja vu
Blogs Depending on which camps you speak to, the U.S. credit meltdown could either spell bad news for IT wages or have little ...
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
News Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.
Tags: Web browsers, Service level management, Google Inc., DirectWrite, Bas Schouten, Direct2D, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Mozilla Corp.
New standard lets browsers get a grip on files
News The Files interface, now a draft at the World Wide Web Consortium, could lead to better uploading and other chores. It's largely built into Firefox 3.6.
Tags: Web browsers, Service level management, Google Inc., File, Web-based Application, Web Browser, Photo-sharing, W3C, Mozilla Corp., Web Application
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.
Tags: Components, Memory, Intel Corp., F5100, Archiving, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, I/O
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The two firms have signed up to a Zend initiative to create an open source application-programming interface for the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, API, co-founder, Rackspace, development tool
MySpace names its first chief financial officer
News The News Corp. social network hires Mark Rosenbaum as CFO less than a week after it announced a new chief technology officer.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, CFO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, News Corp., layoff, chief technology officer, co-founder
