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		<title><![CDATA[10 ways to evaluate your IT management software]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software.  Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:29:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Silver Spring signs up another smart grid client]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=8161]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest utility to commit to using smart grid technology from Silver Spring Networks is American Electric Power AEP. Silver Spring will be part of the company's gridSMART initiative, which is being engineered by Indiana Michigan Power and AEP Ohio across regions in Indiana and northeast central Ohio. AEP hopes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:28:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dell talks Self-Service IT at Openworld [video]]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25902]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell took to the stage to talk about the new strategies that the company is embarking on to help enterprises save money, energy and resources with Dell products and services. In this video clip, Dell talks about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:25:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SmartSynch touts progress in Texas]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=7481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What's this, smart grid technology that is actually being used for bonafide business purposes and not just in a pilot?    SmartSynch, which provides both smart meter technology and smart grid IP communications technology, is reporting that Texas-New Mexico Power TNMP is about halfway through the deployment of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:35:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Researchers bring the sounds of ancient instruments back to life]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1738]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers is reconstructing the sound or timbre of ancient instruments.  The ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project accomplishes this feat using physical modeling computer synthesis and grid technology. by Chris Jablonski]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:41:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22451]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware.    Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:46:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BMC to link up with Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud deployments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=21130]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BMC Software on Wednesday will detail plans to collaborate with Amazon Web Services to ease hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments.    Despite a lot of chatter about cloud computing most enterprises will take a hybrid approach to their data center and link so called private clouds---also known as your...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:20:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Racemi and BMC take on disaster recovery and datacenter consolidation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=719]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Racemi and BMC Software are presenting a different take on how to go about the task of making virtual servers more highly available and more manageable. They're combining a physical/virtual management product BladeLogic Operations Manager with a powerful disaster recovery/backup/system portability product DynaCenter to create a reliable, agile computing environment....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:00:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Grid Computing meets ET]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10471]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Could you run your nightly batch cycle on your employees' PCs? Maybe save a bundle on hardware? Probably not. The technique is best for compute-intensive tasks--tasks that require lots of calculation and little data. by Ed Gottsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1325]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The contract, which will be rolled out over the next three years, is being handled by EVB Energie AG. The utility...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:17:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=375]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:00:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ActiveX woes bite CA BrightStor]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=960]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day another ActiveX problem. This time an ActiveX vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCServe Backup could be exploited to compromise a user's system.    A Secunia alert rates the vulnerability "highly critical." Here are the details:  Krystian Kloskowski has reported a vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:33:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share.    The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:45:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digipede Network Version 2 Launched]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=345]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Digipede. As usual, I was impressed with their pragmatic approach and the fact that they're trying very hard to make grid computing/high performance computing concepts available to everyone by utilizing Microsoft's .NET architecture as a platform. This...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:00:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/digipede+control+features+drop.html"><![CDATA[Digipede Control Features Drop]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft-Yahoo: Putting the moving parts together]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7855]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo looks pretty compelling on paper. The deal even makes for a nice PowerPoint slide on synergies, but putting these two behemoths together could be difficult. Why? There's a lot of overlap.   First let's get the slides out of the way. On Microsoft's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:59:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Platform Computing VM Orchestrator]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=329]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I've tracked Platform Computing for well over a decade, I don't get the chance to speak with them all that much. A short while ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Dye, Product Manager of VM Orcestrator VMO. Although our discussion ranged from Platform's history, where it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:49:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BMC acquires Emprisa Networks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6544]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BMC announced today the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, which provides automated network configuration, compliance and change management software. BMC had been partnering with Emprisa, and the Emprisa E-NetAware is  part of BMC's new Service Automation solution, which deals with coordinating and running provisioning and updates; server and network configuration;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5852]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A few points to ponder ahead of the weekend...Why is my information always in the other database?When folks call customer service, some see incompetence. Others see red. I see data silos.This week I've called Verizon and Comcast about billing errors and been transferred repeatedly and also realized Yahoo thinks I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:45:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Shakedown #4: Should Vista be able to force an unwanted reboot when it wants to?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=698]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many departments within many companies, today was a day when our department go together and did some online slide slidesharing.  We use Microsoft's NetMeeting but I don't use Internet Explorer and my one attempt at at getting the slides on my screen  (there's a way to view...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:18:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firewall redux: Could a public, open software behavior registry squelch useless dialogs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=697]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:44:10 -0700</pubDate>
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