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One of the questions raised by our recent discussion of e-voting options is how far the IT myopia revealed there permeates our other IT activities: to what extent, in other words, is the presence of an obvious IT component likely to blind us to the rest of the system? by...

Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in the datacenter as a way to respond quickly to the varying server demands. Depending on time of day and day of the week, as well as events in progress and many other factors, loads on any given machine may vary by factors of 100 or 1,000 or more. Giving a server more or less computing power, running multiple instances of the same server for load balancing purposes, or allowing failover from one virtual instance to another are increasingly important capabilities.

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.