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		<title><![CDATA[What the credit crunch means for IT]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank.  As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:37:57 -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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		<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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		<title><![CDATA[Getting paid is key to medical success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=143]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps no area of medicine will change as much in the next five years as payment processing, according to a new McKinsey report. (Illustration from the cover of the report.)Right now a key difference between a practice's success or failure is having an assistant who can work the system and get...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:26:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Shakedown #3: McAfee's 'Block/Allow this change' dialog is a useless warning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=693]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As far as security solutions go, personal firewalls are probably the most problematic category for vendors to get right, let alone users to get working.  Not only are there differing philosophies about what belongs in a personal firewall and what doesn't (eg: whereas many personal firewalls can and will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:30:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Proof that there are two types of computer users: Dumb and Dumber]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=696]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the good news.  Our Technology Shakedown videos seem to be striking a nerve so expect more of them. The idea? We shouldn't have to accept mediocrity in our technology products. Period.Now, the bad news. Judging by the responses to these shakedowns (yesterday's in particular), there's a contingent of end-users...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:26:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP's expanding software portfolio]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5735]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP's software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:36:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[365 Main details SF outage problems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5823]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:40:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open source systems management challenging incumbents]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5815]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA  are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:30:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Signing e-mail to legally bind e-mail attachments: Easier said than done]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here on ZDNet, in the blogs, their comment areas, and in e-mails you have not seen, my fellow blogger George Ou and I have been debating the challenges to securing e-mail.Although many Internet users assume it to be otherwise, most e-mail traversing the Internet and even corporate networks is insecure....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:32:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Symantec CEO John Thompson on Microsoft, Google and Switzerland]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Symantec CEO John Thomspon drinks deeply from the Microsoft well. In fact, three-quarters of his company's $5.2 billion in revenue last year was derived from the Windows platform. But Symantec's relationship with Microsoft is complex and at times contentious. Thompson describes Microsoft as a partner, ally and competitor.On the competitor...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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