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Thursday, 30th September 2010

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Weekly Case Study: A Global Ad Agency Runs Out of Room in its Data Center

Omnicom is one of the world's largest advertising agencies. It serves more than 5,000 clients in 100 countries. It had a data center that posed a certain problem. The agency needed new servers but did not have the room in the data center to fit them all. "We had an increasing requirement for an increasing number of servers that we needed to…

Alex Williams comments

How Cloud Computing Is Changing the Video Game Industry

According to the PC Games Digital Downloads Analyst Report, during the first six months of 2010, more video games were purchased online and downloaded digitally than were bought at retail stores. This marks the first time that digital downloads comprised the majority of total PC game sales. And although retails sales still make up a greater share…

Audrey Watters comments

Cloud Computing

Why the Oracle Exalogic Cloud is Not Elastic

The concept of the cloud in a box is breaking down as more people come to question how Oracle defines elasticity. At Oracle Open World last week, the company repeatedly stated that its Exalogic machine is elastic as virtualization is built into the system. Each of the 360 cores can be virtualized. How many virtual machines depends on several…

Infrastructure Alex Williams comments

Manage Employee Training Online Using Mindflash

Anyone who's ever been responsible for training staff members on software or internal processes knows it's no simple feat, especially at smaller companies with fewer resources. It's precisely this challenge that Mindflash aims to resolve with its online training management platform, which came out of beta earlier this week.

Reviews John Paul Titlow comments

Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

At today's roundtable I had a disturbing experience. One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. I asked why the pitch was so confusing and all over the place, to which the entrepreneur…

Sramana Mitra comments

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