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Writing the rules of regulation

Hurrah! I’ve just been to a Cisco press event, and for the very first time I have seen a vendor presenting on “how to cope with the vagaries of regulation” rather than “companies need to implement compliance technologies”. I have frequently argued in the past that compliance was a post-Enron US invention, jumped upon by [...]

Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by

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The virtualisation battle moves into the next phase

VMware announced yesterday that it is making its virtual machine file format freely available, with no license or royalties. Despite also claiming that the company is committed to supporting any other open virtual machine disk formats broadly adopted by customers and working toward converging on open standards in this area this announcement is clearly motivated [...]

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