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. New coalition pushes for 'big' broadband Schools, libraries and health-care providers in the U.S. need broadband speeds of 100M bps to 1G bps in order to adequately serve their customers' needs, according to a new coalition pushing for "big" broadband for those organizations. SMBs more interested in cloud than big businesses? Just a myth, Forrester says Forrester says conventional wisdom is wrong about adoption of cloud infrastructure services. Palm Pre: Nowhere To Go But Down Ed Colligan is a nice guy and visionary marketer who, nevertheless, deserves blame for most of Palm's problems, including the failed launch of the Palm Pre last weekend. At least by sacrificing Colligan so quickly, that must be what "the new Palm" hopes we'll think. Doom Comes to the iPhone Fans of the classic "Doom" series may want to preorder the new iPhone 3G S immediately, because the venerable first-person shooter game is coming to the smartphone next week. Have IT Budgets Hit Bottom Yet? Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research in Gartner Executive Programs, sheds more light on survey data that shows more than 40% of CIOs cut their budgets in 2009. On average, IT budgets were cut by 7.2%, and overall, including flat and increased budgets, IT budgets saw a 4.7% decline. (10:38) Microsoft to ship Windows 7 without IE in Europe Microsoft has confirmed that it will remove IE from European copies of Windows 7. This, it hopes, will resolve the ongoing problems it has had with the European Union's European Commission on the matter. New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center Novell next week plans to release yet another tool that is the product of its three-year-old integration agreement with Microsoft, this time a plug-in for Microsoft's management tools that lets users manage Novell's Suse Linux. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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