eWeek Newsbreak, Aug. 11, 2008
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2008-08-11
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IBM is building a $360 million data center full of green technology out of an old warehouse in Raleigh, N.C., to serve the cloud computing demands of its customers. IBM’s data center in Raleigh, N.C. and a sister data center in Tokyo will linked with IBM’s seven other cloud centers around the world to sell cloud services, also called utility computing and Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. As part of its Big Green initiative, IBM will recycle material from the existing facility to create the new cloud center and will use virtualization technology to run more applications on each server and reduce the amount of electricity needed; Delta Air Lines announced last week it will rollout broadband Wi-Fi access across its entire domestic fleet by Summer 2009.
Delta plans to outfit more than 330 aircraft with WiFi access beginning with the 133 MD88s and MD90s in its fleet. All of its Boeing 737s, 757s and 767-300s should have the service by mid-2009; Federal law enforcement agencies are calling the largest hacking and identity theft caper to date. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Boston last week charged 11 people with who allegedly hacked the network at TJX, which owns the TJ Maxx and Marshalls department store chains, and stole millions of customer credit and debit card numbers from the TJX database; and PNC Bank says the Gen Y crowd can’t manage their own money. The bank rolled out “Virtual Wallet” a personal finance application tied into it’s own accounts for account holder born between 1980 and 1994, the Gen Y set.
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