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• Adobe unveils Connect 8 Web and videconferencing tool set

  Adobe Systems today unveiled Adobe Connect 8, a Web conferencing tool that supports videoconferencing on desktops, in conference rooms and most mobile devices.

• Microsoft lures developers with Windows Azure

  Microsoft may be "all in" for the cloud -- but will developers follow? 

• Microsoft puts Windows Server instances in the cloud

  Microsoft bolstered Windows Azure with several new capabilities today, including the ability to run Windows Server instances on Azure, theoretically making applications portable between the data center and Microsoft cloud platform.

• Virgin American heads into the cloud with Gmail

  Ravi Simhambhatla, CIO of Virgin America One airline is flying into the cloud to use its new e-mail system.

• Can cameras, radar, sensors make cars safer?

  In theory at least, as cars are outfitted with more advanced electronics,  safer vehicles should be at least one of the main results.

• IT seeks a safe road to the cloud

  The road map for expanding enterprise use of cloud computing is being drawn by IT executives like Mark Stone, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems Inc.

• Better storage tech could trim energy, cooling costs, IDC says

  The migration to smaller drives and the use of solid-state drives (SSD) are among several key technologies that will lead to much lower data center power and cooling costs over the next several years, IDC said in a report today.

• 25 new IT companies to watch

  The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market.

• Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualised systems?

  "Virtualisation is not inherently insecure. However, most virtualised workloads are being deployed insecurely."

• How to secure iPads for corporate use

  When Apple's iOS 4.2 debuts next month, it will offer enough features to make the iPad tablet a device that's safe for business if IT security teams take the right steps.

• Apple: Still pushing industry forward

  Apple, actually Steve Jobs, put on another big show this week. The well attended and very well covered show was vintage Apple. Remarkable showmanship with a reasonable amount of actual content.

• Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon

  Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant.

• NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is backing open source cloud computing with a long-term goal in mind: to get out of the data center business.

• Forrester: Ways to cut data centre energy costs

  As the global economy is recovers, pent-up business demand for new apps and market initiatives is driving server investments. Forrester finds that 25 per cent of organizations expect server spend to grow by five per cent to 10 per cent, and six per cent expect it to grow by 10 per cent or more. And to reduce operating and capital costs, improve disaster recovery, and accelerate time-to-market for new apps, organizations are turning to server virtualization.

• HP opens attack on Cisco certifications

  HP this week unveiled a training and certification program for IT personnel converging enterprise infrastructure and rearchitecting data centers.