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Issue: 11 - Server Containment and IT Optimization Lead to Better Performance and Lower TCO.

As technological advances have led the global marketplace into an information-driven world, the need for IT professionals to manage and organize their data has become exponentially more important. In this issue, we have focused on IT containment issues to better utilize the resources already found in your data center. John Waters focuses on the virtualization trend and its increasing popularity as found in the newly created partnership between VMware and Intel. Meanwhile, Dave Sass features a beneficial Infrastructure Health Check Service to clearly analyze and quantify IT resources. In Industry Trends, learn how the Italian State Finance Ministry consolidated their environment to lower TCO and improve performance. Diane Hage gives an overall approach to managing the optimization of technology to meet the business needs and demands. In our Tech Tip, Britton McGinn highlights informative tactics to help IT managers minimize their administration time while consolidating their Intel servers. And, Mark Waldrep describes the changes to the IBM Austin Executive Briefing Center to further enhance individualized educational briefings.

• From the President's Desk
  IBM Austin Briefing Center Re-Designed Mark Waldrep details the significant improvements and the benefits found in utilizing the IBM Austin Briefing Center.
  
  
• Virtualization Makes its Way from Partitioning to Enterprise Infrastructure to Developer Toolbox
  John Waters announces the mainstream trend of virtualization in server consolidation through the alliance established between VMware and Intel.
  
  
• Maximize Performance and Reduce Costs Through an Infrastructure Health Check
  Dave Sass highlights this important service and its ability to enable IT Professionals to make informed decisions.
  
  
• Industry Trends
  The Italian State Finance Ministry (DPS) Finds the Most Economical Solution with IBM: A Case Study in Server Consolidation and IT Optimization
  
  
• Software Corner:
  Connecting the Dual Paths of Optimization: Business and Technology Diane Hage looks into the optimization of not only the technology but also a company's business processes.
  
  
• Tech Tip:
  Server Containment and IT Optimization in Intel Environments Britton McGinn offers suggestions to minimize administrator pains while consolidating servers.
  
  

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While working as a consultant at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva in the early 1980s, Tim Berners-Lee was dismayed both by the way information was stored (in separate, self-contained databases) and by his inability to save data the way human brains do (using random associations between different concepts). He soon set about creating a computerized filing system called ENQUIRE (named after a Victorian how-to book entitled Enquire Within Upon Everything) which, with its hyperlinked documents, later formed the basis for the internet.

Among the names which Tim considered before calling his creation the World Wide Web? TIM - an acronym, he explained, for 'The Information Mine.'

Berners-Lee rejected that name, along with "The Mesh" and "MoI" (Mine of Information), because he considered it too egocentric. Indeed, more than anyone else, he fought to keep the World Wide Web open, nonproprietary, and free.

[Sources: CERN; Time 100]