Tape backup can provide for the long-term archival needs of the virtual servers; however tape cannot provide the level of recoverability required for critical business applications. Disaster Recovery Planning requires more. Rebuilding one application from tape can be a difficult and lengthy process. Recovering four or more applications at the same time from tape to […]
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The yearly cap for H-1B visas is 65,000. In 2008, the H-1B quota was met in one day. According to the most recent numbers issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the late rush has pushed the number of H-1B visa petitions to 58,900. In additions, according to some forecasts the first quarter of 2010 […]
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It was reported in Computerworld that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack against Google’s network last month originated in China, and tried to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. In a blog post Tuesday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said that attacks have forced the company to “review the feasibility of […]
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U.S. employers again hit the cap of 65,000 for the controversial visas that allow foreign workers in specialty fields such as computer science and programming to work in the United States for three to six years. Despite an early slump in U.S. employer demand for H-1B visas, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Dec. […]
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SOA and ITSM drive success and productivity One bad customer experience can cost you that customer for life. Hospitality, travel, retail, healthcare, and financial services are especially prone to losing customers who have a negative experience. It does not take much for a customer to decide that you and your company are not worth his time, […]
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Similar to the explosion in regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley after Enron, many pundits expect new regulations in light of the financial industry meltdown. And industry experts expect that IT organizations in many government agencies will have to take on the heavy burden of the new regulations that are expected to emerge. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 […]
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NASA has issued a final request for proposal for a menu of information technology services such as e-mail, security management, instant messaging and mobile communications. Estimates have pegged the work as worth $2.5 billion. The project, Agency Consolidated End User Services (ACES), is designed to consolidate services across NASA into one agencywide solution. The requirements […]
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There is good and bad news on the job front: The bad news is that layoffs are still happening; the good news is that they are a lot smaller than last January, and workers who were laid off in the last year are getting back to some form of work in larger numbers. Job cuts […]
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Google has announced that Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser starting on March 1. Ironically, if Google had taken its anti-IE6 advice to heart before hackers broke into its corporate network last year, it might not now be mulling whether to abandon the Chinese search market. “We’re […]
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Populist rhetoric from U.S. leaders and President Obama has some in India outsourcing enterprises concerned about what kind of role its companies will have in future technology endeavors with the United States. The big question is, Will anything happen to the tax code and H-1B visa laws in 2010 that will negatively affect workers or […]
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