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• School district opts for VDI in computer labs

  As technical director for the Rocori School District in Stearns County, Minn., Brian Michalski was looking into virtual desktop infrastructure as a way to cut costs in the schools' 13 computer labs.

• China moves to beat U.S. in exascale computing

  U.S. efforts to develop the next-generation high performance computing platform are lagging, which could give China an opening to develop an exascale system first.

• WORK: Gift ideas for the office (or home office)

  With today's flexible workstyles, your office can be in a corporate workspace or the dining room table of your home. No matter the place, sometimes you need more than just a notebook and a mouse to get things done - so we're here to help.

• U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6

  The IPv6 Forum on Tuesday presented a special award to four U.S. government officials for their pioneering work in promoting IPv6, an emerging upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Amazon, Microsoft and Google targeted by cloud provider Joyent

  Joyent may be the biggest cloud provider you haven't heard of.

• Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant: a who's who of cloud market

  The cloud market can be a big, daunting place. Seemingly every tech vendor has a cloud strategy, with new products and services dubbed "cloud" coming out every week. But who are the real market leaders? Research firm Gartner's answer lies in its Magic Quadrant report for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market.

• Linux Foundation welcomes new members, as existing heavyweights up their commitments

  The Linux Foundation made several membership announcements over the weekend, welcoming new members Cloudsoft, Cloudscaling, CloudSigma and DreamHost to the fold at LinuxCon Europe, currently being held in Barcelona.

• GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers

  Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house

• OpenFlow start-up Big Switch lands another big funding round

  OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations.

• Telecom firm tightens internal application management with HP tool

  Vodafone Ireland was faced with a problem, according to Shane Gaffney, head of IT operations: It had about 200 applications running for internal business units tied to customer services, but was having a hard time measuring application availability.

• HP CEO tells users what she's going to do -- and what she isn't

  Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that that HP is on solid footing.

• HP offers new low-cost SaaS service desk

  HP, which has a long history in providing service management tools in the enterprise as on-premise systems, managed services and SaaS offerings, is releasing on Monday an entirely new SaaS product for the service desk, called HP Service Anywhere
  

• HP betting big on Cloud to help company turn around

  A few weeks ago HP's Meg Whitman braced tech watchers with sobering warnings that earnings for one of the pioneering companies of Silicon Valley may fall 10% next year, and may not grow for another two years.

• For 2012, power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

  In 2012 a fundamental change in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> architecture could be on tap as companies look to cut data center costs with the help of technologies like ARM processors and graphics chips, analysts said.

• Goodbye 2011 ... What a year!

  Well, as we are just a hop, skip and an eggnog away from putting on silly hats, drinking champagne, and kissing random people as we bid goodbye to the year, it behooves me to look into the digital rearview mirror and ponder what we can see rushing away from us.