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GOOGLE ci riprova: nonostante i tentativi falliti degli ultimi
anni, l'azienda di Mountain View non si rassegna all'esclusione
dall'enorme mercato dei social network e si prepara a trasformare
il suo servizio di posta elettronica Gmail nell'arma per attaccare
lo strapotere di Facebook e Twitter.

source Repubblica.it

Gartner, Inc. has identified four information-management roles it
believes IT departments need to establish and recruit from outside the
IT team in a major trend that will affect both IT and business. The
analyst firm believes organizations need staff with different skills
from the ones they were originally hired for. These are not IT people
as organizations know them.

source ConnectIT

Gartner traccia le previsioni di spesa per l'intero 2010. Segnali di
ripresa, anche se fortemente influenzati dall'effetto-cambio.

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Nell’insieme, sostiene la società di ricerca, del miglioramento della
situazione macroeconomica beneficerà anche l’It, che dovrebbe mettere a
segno un se pur contenuto +4,6% a 3.400 miliardi di dollari, con
incrementi su tutti i segmenti: hardware, software, servizi It, Tlc e
servizi Tlc.

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source 01Net

1. Manageability of the cloud is becoming a critical success factor
   As
   different vendors clamor to be part of the cloud, unified management of
   the entire technology stack is critical.  Whether public or private,
   tying together the different infrastructure layers including
   applications, VMs, systems, networks and storage, with a comprehensive
   set of management tools reduces complexity by providing end to end
   service visibility, performance monitoring, and automated provisioning.
   


2. Natural selection will begin in the cloud service provider space
   Although it is still early in evolutionary process, Darwinian selection is


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Below are some of the most critical investment priorities for IT professionals in 2010:

Cloud
Storage: Cloud computing is often used as a metaphor for the Internet.
Cloud storage serves to mask the complexity of the IT infrastructure
and enables access to storage capacity as "a pay as you grow" service.
The cloud will continue to grow in awareness into 2010, with a
continued focus by private cloud builders and public cloud service
providers on elasticity, reliability, multi-tenancy and security. Key
to the success of cloud providers, as with the dot.com services
providers of earlier days, will be the ability to leverage their
resources and be more efficient in managing the growth of storage
compared to their end users. Storage virtualisation and the ability to
dynamically scale up and scale out will be key drivers to adoption. We
expect an increasing adoption of cloud storage as advancements are made
on key capabilities such as, security, multi-tenancy, and payment
models.

source SNS Europe

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As an important part of the announcement, STA is promoting a converged
Mini-SAS High-Density (HD) standard connector to create a vibrant and
consistent infrastructure to expand SAS usability and scalability.  The
STA objectives include a consistent connectivity management scheme in
addition to the active copper and optical cable extensions supported by
the new Mini-SAS HD connector....

source SNS Europe