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Companies can lower their costs and get more accurate results if they harness the "wisdom of crowds" via prediction markets, a new report suggests.

(Source: VMware) Datacenters consume large amounts of energy, so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting datacenters and offers strategies with which to address these changes.

(Source: VMWare) Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT organizations today. VMware virtualization gives you the power to right-size your IT infrastructure through server consolidation and dynamic load balancing across a pool of physical servers. Your IT organization can dramatically increase server utilization and reduce energy costs with VMware solutions.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given responsibility for the company's new MobileMe service to Eddy Cue, the executive who heads iTunes, according to a memo sent to Apple employees earlier this week.

Sprint Nextel reported today that its revenue for the second quarter of 2008 was 11% lower than in the same period a year ago.

(Source: Computerworld) The benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS) are extending their reach into systems management. So in addition to the more obvious cost control and rapid application deployment benefits, SaaS can be instrumental in filling needs for compliance, security and business continuity - all the while reducing costly infrastructure. Learn more in this brand new Technology Briefing.

The senior vice president of technology and operations role is springing up in all sorts of industries. It represents not only a new level of organizational integration between IT and the business but a new career opportunity for CIOs as well.

Bill Baker, a Microsoft distinguished engineer and general manager of BI applications for the Microsoft Office Business Platform team, is leaving the company after 12 years.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly acknowledged mistakes in the way the company's problem-plagued MobileMe sync and storage service was rolled out last month.

In a first-ever media interview with the CIO, the inner IT workings of the secret intelligence agency are explained -- with an emphasis on supporting more data sharing amongst different agencies in the post-9/11 war on terror.

(Source: HP) The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise size customers leading performance, high capacity, and high-availability storage solutions for reducing IT costs and complexity. The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration.

(Source: HP) Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. While technologies have advanced and capabilities have become more sophisticated over time, the motivations for virtualizing resources and the anticipated benefits have remained relatively stable. This paper describes the business motivations for storage virtualization and the benefits it can deliver.

(Source: VMware) IT departments constantly face demands to deploy, maintain and grow services and applications, but this has lead to server sprawl and high energy costs. Consolidation solutions implemented with a virtual infrastructure meet the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%. This brief discusses how virtualization helps IT organizations increase utilization, lower energy costs, increase manageability and improve management of future growth.

HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS is now expected to close sometime between mid-August and the end of September.

Motorola has tapped former Qualcomm COO Sanjay Jha to be the new CEO of Motorola's mobile devices business.

(Source: Google) As the volume of information inside enterprises explodes, most executives recognize the importance of a Google-like search solution for business content. To this end, Google has developed Universal Search for Business, powered by the Google Search Appliance, which searches all enterprise content through one secure box. Attend this webinar to learn how your business can benefit from universal search capabilities.

Frank Hayes reports that there's much for IT to learn from a study of the government's failure to implement a data encryption mandate.

After Alcatel-Lucent reported a €1.1 billion second quarter loss, its chairman and CEO announced plans to resign; and a U.K. court rejected a British hacker's appeal of an order that he be extradited to the U.S.

Mark Hall reports on the push for CIOs to become carbon information managers.