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TOP STORIES - December 31, 2008 • Survey: 2009 Data Center Budgets Escape Painful Cuts • Why IT Co-location Centers Will See a Boom in 2009 • Application Developers to Keep Their Eyes on the Cloud • Enterprise Security in the Year 2008 • HP Launches MediaSmart Home Server for Mac and PC SPOTLIGHT First Look: Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds The device hides a 10.6-inch display inside the full 17-inch display, making this a killer device for dozens of verticals. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • How IBM Intends to Kill IT Chaos • The Top Hardware Products of 2008 • Intel Redesigns Classmate PC for 2009 • Steve Jobs Sets His Priorities Right FEATURED VIDEO The Future Is SSD Solid-state drives are faster and more efficient than old-school hard drives. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Microsoft's Year in Review • Seven Super Storage Technologies • Windows Live SkyDrive Exits Beta • Inside Intel Larrabee IN THIS ISSUE Survey: 2009 Data Center Budgets Escape Painful Cuts AFCOM survey indicates that nearly two-thirds of managers of large data centers will maintain or increase their budgets in 2009, despite the deepening recession. The remaining one-third will lose about 15 percent of their budgets, with much of the reduction involving travel and training expenses. READ MORE >> Why IT Co-location Centers Will See a Boom in 2009 In the midst of a painful recession, i/o Data Centers, which houses about 150 SMB IT systems, secures $56 million in venture capital and becomes a poster child for a burgeoning market. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM IBM: Emerging Green Initiatives. A well defined green initiative cannot only further your company's business needs but also bolster its corporate identity. Read the ESG reports to learn how IBM can help. Read more. ADVERTISEMENT Application Developers to Keep Their Eyes on the Cloud For software developers, 2008 was the year of the cloud, and 2009 will pick right up from there with more and more cloud computing activity. Application developers are jostling to get into the fray as more and more vendors enter the realm of the cloud. READ MORE >> Enterprise Security in the Year 2008 The economy may have slowed, but the security needs of businesses did not. Here are a few of the products from security vendors that hit the market in 2008 and were aimed at enterprises. READ MORE >> HP Launches MediaSmart Home Server for Mac and PC The MediaSmart Home Servers ex485 and ex487, a 750GB model and a 1.5 TB model, allow users who own Apples and PCs to share and back up media files. READ MORE >> Five Open Source Security Myths Dispelled Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? DOWNLOAD NOW >> Deploying a UC Infrastructure: 5 Areas You Need to Focus On Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 provides the key elements needed to create a highly available, unified communications infrastructure. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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