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May 22 Computer ServicesRegion seeing explosion of new data centersThe Dallas-Fort Worth area is a booming data center market as businesses seek more storage and backup for crucial customer and employee data. Demand outweighs supply. The region has about 30 data center buildings, or 5.5 million square feet, according to Cushman & Wakefield of Texas. More are being built. "We're in the biggest building boom that we've ever been in," said Ken Brill, executive director of Uptime Institute in Santa Fe, N.M. "Companies have run out of capacity to support their operations." Dallas is a top data center market because of its abundant and cheap land, reliable power sources, strong technical support and low risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. While large companies such as Capital One and Citigroup run their own data centers, smaller companies lease space in shared centers. Resources for May 21 Network ServicesExecutives divided over pros and cons of social networkingThe issue was the subject of heated debate at the Corporate Executive Programme at Gleneagles Hotel this month. Fifty executives across a range of disciplines and industries debated the merits of allowing staff access to social networking from their desktops. Many were concerned that allowing social networking could open the floodgates to staff wasting time on a massive scale, or perhaps expose firms to unecessary security risks At the same time, executives realised social networking could become the way to do business in the future, replacing phone and e-mail as the communication medium of choice. Resources for May 20 Computer ServicesNew piracy law may cost DartmouthA nationwide campaign for state laws that would require colleges to track students’ illegal file sharing could cost the College millions of dollars if the laws are passed, Ellen Young, manager of consulting services at Dartmouth Computer Services, said in an e-mail message to The Dartmouth. The College does not currently have an opinion on the possible anti-piracy legislation, and no such bill has been introduced in the New Hampshire legislature, she added. The law would require Dartmouth to police its wireless network more stringently, notably by installing detection software and reporting all students who engage in illegal file sharing. Current law requires the College to notify students only if they have been caught sharing files illegally. The entertainment industry maintains that college students are responsible for most illegal file sharing, but college officials across the nation disagree, claiming that industry data is unreliable and piracy occurs everywhere on the internet, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 19 Computer ServicesWhat software plus services means for Microsoft (and you) In early March, during an annual conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced it was launching Microsoft Office SharePoint Online. While the idea was to provide a lightweight version of SharePoint as a hosted offering, analysts say the product has been presented in a way to avoid cannibalizing Microsoft's bread-and-butter installed software product, Office. SharePoint, which started off as a document management system back in 2003, also now includes Web 2.0 features such as blogs, wikis and social networks, which were added in 2007. While users access SharePoint through a Web-browser, companies typically host the SharePoint server software themselves, onpremise. You won't find Microsoft executives calling
SharePoint Online a SaaS (software as a service) offering. In fact,
according to analysts, that phrase doesn't fit into Microsoft's lexicon
of technology terms. Instead, it's called "software plus services." At
its core, software plus services essentially means that Microsoft will
provide online portals and will host the data, but in order to
manipulate the files that reside there, you'll need the Microsoft
Office suite installed on your computer. Resources for May 15 Network ServicesData portability - a red herring?Users that have invested time building up their profiles and "social graphs" on one social network, for instance, have no easy way to transfer all of their data when joining or moving to another service that leverages the same type of data. This past week has seen a number of moves on the part of large players in the social networking space that are supposed to bring social network users much closer to the dream of "data portability." On May 8, MySpace announced MySpace Data Availability, which will allow its users to share their profile data with other popular social networking services and internet services. "The walls around the garden are coming down," declared MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe. Not to be outdone, Facebook followed MySpace's announcement with one of its own. Its Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to "'connect' their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site." Resources for |
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