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Vendors respond to calls for better security

It was a pretty big week in acquisition news for some major IT vendors. Cisco ( NASDAQ: CSCO ) announced that it is buying CoreOptics and Moto Development Group, which it hopes will give it a leg-up in

Crank up the thermostat in your data center, says Google

Want to bring down the electrical cost of your data center? One simple way to do that, says Google's Bill Weihl, is to crank up the thermostat, reports Computerworld. Weihl, Google's top energy

Cisco: Cloud computing a security nightmare

Speaking at a keynote address at the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Cisco CEO John Chambers noted that while cloud computing was inevitable, the migration of computing

Salesforce.com reports a cool $1 billion in revenue

For its fiscal 2009, which ended January 31, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com reported a cool $1.08 billion in revenue. An increase in revenue over the last three months contributed to a total

San Francisco hunts for mystery network device

The San Francisco case in which a rogue network administrator purportedly hijacked the city's network continues as city officials say they are now searching for a router whose location remains a

The enemy within

Everyone knows that predators are lurking about, ready and willing to steal data, and that the threats that come from everywhere in the world are numerous and real. But Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics

Sabotage can come from the inside

The arrest last month of a technology administrator from the City of San Francisco for hijacking the municipal computer network and blocking access to everyone but himself has been a real wake-up

Microsoft tosses hat in virtualization arena

While VMware was the belle of the virtualization ball in San Francisco, the company was not alone in expressing its interest in this exciting market. If there's money and a computer is involved, then

Virtualization goes mainstream in San Fran

Over 10,000 attendees this week converged on the fourth annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. After pulling off a successful IPO, VMware President and CEO Diane Greene declared that

Of wireless wonderlands and city politics

  It is disappointing to see Chicago and San Francisco's municipal wireless initiatives falter, because the biggest losers in that delay are the citizens who are disconnected from the digital