Inspiring Launch of Apps for Good Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 8th March On Wednesday 3 March 2010 I attended the inspiring launch of Apps for Good in Tulse Hill, Lambeth, South London. Apps for Good is a project that will provide an environment for young people in the...
	Smart Grid for data center from HP Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 23rd February Very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. It's now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use -- and misuse -- in these enterprise data centers.
	Improved data center productivity, private clouds Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 22nd February This latest BriefingsDirect discussion explores how converged infrastructure provides more business results productivity and offers a stepping stone to private cloud implementations.
	Mobile applications development - out of WAC? Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 22nd February Lack of standardisation fragments markets, but too much might stifle innovation - in the reflected glow from Mobile World Congress 2010, what now for mobile applications?
	BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 19th February We ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond now that the IT spending recession appears to have bottomed out.
	ISM3 brings greater standardization to security measurement across enterprise IT Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 17th February BriefingDirect assembled a panel this week to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than a mysterious art form. It turns out, rigorously applying data and metrics to security can dramatically improv
	ArchiMate gives business leaders and IT architects a common language to describe the enterprise Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 16th February ArchiMate provides ways to develop visualizations and control of IT architecture to more swiftly obtain business benefits.
	CERN's evolution toward cloud computing Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 10th February Track the evolution of high-performance computing (HPC) from clusters to cloud models through the eyes of CERN, with analysis from IDC and technical thought leadership from Platform Computing.

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