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Carnival Cruise Lines recently finished switching out its storage area networks from a Fibre Channel-based system to an Ethernet-based storage architecture using a virtualized server infrastructure. Read more...

IBM appears set to launch an eight-core Power7 chip, if reports over at The Register are correct. Documents showed the Power7 chips scaling to 4.0GHz in 2010 on a 45nm process. Each core will yield Read more...

SOA is the hottest trend in IT these days, but finding qualified IT staff who understand the concept and have the skills can be a real problem. While outsourcing has merit, it might not be good Read more...

The demand for CIOs is growing fast, thanks in part to large companies now requiring CIOs at the strategic business unit level as well as the enterprise level. What's more, at some smaller firms, Read more...

Enterprises that truly want to integrate business and the IT infrastructure might consider pulling an IT architect on board, especially if service oriented architecture is on your to-do list for Read more...