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As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. By deploying governance alongside and in sync with SOA development and deployment capabilities, enterprises are growing the use of SOA without stumbling -- allowing companies to 'crawl, walk and run' to SOA without losing control.

Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party. Instead, the Raleigh, N.C., software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees. The move comes as the slumping economy is hurting philanthropic donations and increasing demand among the needy.

Software maker Flock has released an for its social web browser. The add-on -- which works only on Flock 2.0 and not on Firefox 3, the browser upon which Flock is based -- was co-developed with MySpace and identity management company Vidoop. Even though

By looking carefully at the technological, environmental and cultural changes required to fully take advantage of the power of video and telepresence, the full story of how companies can successfully implement this technology is being revealed. Aberdeen is uncovering how successful implementations of telepresence occur in the enterprise workplace.

Jon Miller knows a few things about Internet companies and large amounts of money; he was the CEO of AOL for around four years, and is a founding partner of the Velocity Interactive Group investment firm. So try to at least not fall out of your chair laughing when we say he might attempt to buy Yahoo.read more

Moscow, Idaho - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - NTT Communications Company's web hosting, managed services and applications provider, Verio, Inc., has selected Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s AHA compression card, to manage data storage appliances and reduce disk requirements. Fred Martin, Vice President of operations, Verio remarked, ''Verio selected the AHA compression card because it allows us to increase the capacity of our backup infrastructure with no increase in server count or datacenter space. Testing during initial trials showed Verio was able to reduce its content to 38 percent of its original size (compression ratio of 2.6:1). Having this technology available in the market today has helped Verio to save thousands of dollars in capital and operational expenses by freeing up storage space and enabling a longer life-span on our drives and servers.''The AHA363-PCle card offers many advantages over software-based compression solution

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has reported strong growth and outperformance of all projections throughout 2008. The company provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize their resources and decrease their capital expenditures. SoftLayer's growth continues despite general U.S. economic woes, indicating that the company's model for providing outsourced IT environments has considerable mainstream market advantages.Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer, SoftLayer remarked, ''As much as we've accomplished this year, we keep moving forward, continuing to innovate and enhance our offerings and provide customers the ultimate virtual data center solutions. In these tough economic times our solutions are more relevant than ever. We will be launching additional

Popular microblogging and social networking site Pownce will close forever on 15 December, after it was acquired by rival Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type, Vox and TypePad. Pownce users have the option of exporting their messages in a format

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - Web hosting company, Webair, will deploy the authoritative name server software designed to increase the availability and security of DNS infrastructure, Secure64 DNS Authority, across all of its data centers worldwide. In addition, the software is designed to reduce its operational costs, and provide its customers with comprehensive protection against network threats such as malware and DoS attacks. Secure64 DNS Authority's proven capability ensures that Webair's DNS infrastructure will be immune to malware, always available, and able to withstand denial-of-service attacks while still responding to legitimate queries - unlike other DNS applications that fail during network attacks. Sagi Brody, CTO of Webair noted, ''Webair is growing quickly and the rapidly increasing number of domains we host for customers put too much of a burden on our previous DNS solution. By using Secure64 DNS Authority, w

Jay Adelson told BusinessWeek that the company's off the blocks. Except no company in Silicon Valley ever really isn't for sale, if you think about it that way.