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		<title><![CDATA[Centralization of IP Communications]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152919]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Converged data and communication networks are a reality in most large and extra-large enterprises. How can one make the most of these resources? The digital natives have entered the workforce. How can one serve them in the most cost-effective manner? Mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs are standard events for large enterprises....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ministry of Defence's UNICOM Saves US$4.5 Million and Cuts Support Costs by 75% With Centralization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971467]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ministry of Defence wanted to reduce the cost of maintaining a distributed fleet of 450 servers, terminals, and software in over 300 locations worldwide and provide chain of command with timely visibility of all assets. The challenge was to build a simplified, agile environment with the scalability to support the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Information Security Control Centralization and IT Governance for Enterprises]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021191]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Information Technology IT governance is important in every Enterprise to ensure the execution of the firm's security policies and procedures. It is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on Information Technology IT systems and their performance and risk management. This paper sights current some problems. It also presents the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accelerating Mission-Critical Oracle Applications Throughout the Distributed Enterprise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=378090]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From Oracle E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards World, Oracle offers a full complement of integrated business solutions that improve functional best practices, integrate Web services, provide predictive analysis and enable more flexible, collaborative business processes. Many businesses today rely on Oracle applications to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who benefits from data center centralization?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who benefits from data center centralization?The difference is in control/managementCentralized processing with decentralized control works - centralizing both does not.But notice that Wintel/data processing essentially force the centralization of both, and Unix does not.  You can centralize control with Unix, but you don't have to. Instead you put everything...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?z10 - Change of Ideology in EnterprisesI think the z10 is going to be the future winner, especially in the virtualization arena.  The problem will be getting large corporations to "buy" in to the purchase.  In the old days of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red shift meets event horizon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:27:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Normative issues in the Cocoon strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normative issues in the Cocoon strategyCentralization is not all rosyPlacing ALL of your documents in one "basket" means a major single-point-of-failure. If your network/server infrastructure is anything but rock-solid, don't do it.Not to mention SOx and the "separation of roles" issues! Any server with sensitive docs would need all sorts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Benefits of Centralization in Wireless LANs Via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=283729]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper addresses the benefits of 802.11 wireless LAN centralization via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. It discusses how centralization of Wireless LANs WLANs delivers advanced features and benefits that are easy to deploy, scale, and manage. These benefits include ease of deployment, ease of upgrades, reliable connectivity through dynamic...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reduce IT Costs Using Citrix Presentation Server 4]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, IT organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and deliver more value to the enterprise. They are turning to data center and server centralization and consolidation to significantly reduce costs, while at the same time, seeking ways to improve IT systems and infrastructure management to deliver even higher...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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