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	Cray to build 20-petaflop supercomputer for Oak Ridge lab Cray was awarded a $97 million contract to build a supercomputer that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems The Right Unified Communications Solution The advantages of today's unified communications are numerous, and there are many choices among solutions. A Cisco white paper is available to help you make the right decision. The paper outlines ten differentiators—from mobile device support to social software—that you should consider before deciding on a unified communications upgrade. White Paper In this Issue IT Blogwatch: ARM unveils A7 and A15, with Big.LITTLE plan How CIOs can help curb e-waste Richi Jennings: Microsoft unveils new anti-Android stratagem EC OKs Seagate acquisition of Samsung drive business Steve Jobs biography: 5 tidbits you need to read Jonny Evans: Samsung may beat Apple's US design patents, expert warns Sharky: Smooth move Nudging IT forward iPad 2 vs. business class tablets RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. IT Blogwatch: ARM unveils A7 and A15, with Big.LITTLE plan [Updated to fix the stupidest typo I've ever made] ARM (LON:ARM) has been showing off its new A7 and A15 designs, which will be inside power-sipping smartphones in a couple of years' time. ARM also showed off its curiously-named Big.LITTLE idea, which allows dissimilar cores to handle different types of task, for better battery life. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have seen the future. Read More How CIOs can help curb e-waste CIOs play an important role in controlling e-waste through purchasing and life-cycle management decisions, as well as community outreach initiatives. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft unveils new anti-Android stratagem The big news in the mobile platform world this weekend was Microsoft's latest patent licensing agreement with Compal, an Android original device manufacturer (ODM). Ho-hum-yawn, I hear you say? Not so fast! Microsoft's announcement unveils a new aspect to Redmond's strategy that the company has, until now, only hinted at. I'll reveal all, in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More EC OKs Seagate acquisition of Samsung drive business The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after concluding that there will still be enough players in the market after the acquisition. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Integrated Management and the Private Cloud As virtualization deployments increase, so do the challenges of managing virtual environments, according to a recent Computerworld Market Pulse survey. Read More! Steve Jobs biography: 5 tidbits you need to read Did you know that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hated Android, Google's mobile operating system? I mean, really, really hated Android. How about the fact that the Apple II's design was inspired by a kitchen appliance and that Jobs never truly respected Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as an innovator? That's just a taste of some of the nuggets about Jobs that are packed into the book Steve Jobs by noted biographer Walter Isaacson. Read More Jonny Evans: Samsung may beat Apple's US design patents, expert warns Apple insiders may never forgive Google for Android -- but there's a chance Apple's iPad design patent may not prevail in the US courts, potentially opening doors to a wave of Android-driven copycats. Read More Sharky: Smooth move This IT shop needs a server moved from one site to another, and decides the easiest way to make the trip go smoothly is to hire an engineer from the server vendor to do it. But once the job is done, it has four times as much disk as before. Read More Nudging IT forward There is basic agreement on the nirvana vision for the next-generation data center, but the tricky part is getting there from here. Read More iPad 2 vs. business class tablets Tech lovers have been flocking to the iPad 2 and other tablets in order to watch movies, read books, surf the Web and make video calls on the latest, greatest, thinnest, lightest, coolest devices. But where do tablets fit within the enterprise? Insider (registration required) Read More
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