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We recently hosted a survey on the value of IT certifications. Based on the survey results, IT certifications are more valuable than any other time that I can remember and folks with these certifications are seeing a return on their time investments. Insider (registration required)

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has launched its new server CPU chips, some of which offer a whopping 16 cores -- or, at least, 16 threads. The Opteron 6200-series 'Interlagos' and 4200-series 'Valencia' products are supposedly better, faster, cheaper, and/or lower-power than the Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Xeon equivalents, thanks to AMD's 'Bulldozer' architecture. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel the need... the need for speed.

Is there no end to the number of insults that Steve Jobs apparently hurled the way of Microsoft and Bill Gates? In a never-before shown interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 to play in select cities next week, Jobs takes aim at Microsoft, among other targets.

Does cloud computing actually save energy? Would moving some of your data center workload to the cloud reduce your CO2 emissions? Let's find out, in The Long View...
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One of the surprise winners in today's announcement of the Kindle Fire should be Microsoft, which can expect to get significant royalties from what will likely be a hot-selling tablet. Microsoft has gone after other manufacturers of Android devices, and signed royalty agreements with them, including a deal today with Samsung. Expect one with Amazon to follow.

Four months ago, Gartner released a report warning that Windows Phone 7 suffers in part from the "Your Dad uses it syndrome," the perception that it's something your father uses at work, not something you would use. And now, a top HTC executive says that the iPhone suffers from the same syndrome.

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) has nabbed Bob Muglia from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Muglia, the ex-president of the Software And Tools Business (STB) is off to help Juniper with its cloud computing strategy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers follow the money. Not to mention: A16: Dangling Participle...

Not so very long ago, there was a lot of talk in the market about Exchange alternatives -- software products that worked in a similar way to Microsoft Exchange. I was reminded of this by some news that crossed my desk yesterday. Is this still an interesting market, or is the battle long lost? Let's see, in The Long View...
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At the end of June, I attended my second GigaOM Structure conference of the year and of my life. First was the Big Data soiree in NYC in the spring, and I have just been to the San Francisco-based Cloud love-in. Rather than do a play by play of the latest event, I’ll put forth an observation that is still sticking with me, which is usually a good indicator of importance: Now, I know you are all on the edge of your seat in anticipation of what I noticed above all else. Similar to the Prius’ you see on the highway, our future is hybrid and when it comes to the cloud - one size clearly does not fit all.

Storage analyst Stephen Foskett took a look at the interior images of Apple's data center Mr. Jobs briefly flashed up during his WWDC presentation to tell us he thinks the iCloud runs on kit from HP, Teradata, NetApp and others, and wonders if Apple's gone to Oracle to help find the future for iCloud.

As I was watching X-men, I was thinking about the fact that early on in the movie most folks didn't know anything about mutants and they didn't think that they needed to. They figured this was a subject that was only important to scientists so why should they bother to learn about it. Believe it or not, virtualization has some very similar traits. Insider (free registration required).

Buzz Lightyear might disagree, but cloud is a platform, not a destination.

A "star" hedge-fund is calling for the Microsoft (MSFT) board to give CEO Steve Ballmer the old heave-ho. Greenlight Capital president David Einhorn thinks Ballmer's replacement would rally the company's snoozing stock price. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers will miss all the sweaty developers-developers-developers gags. Not to mention: Dunder the German Shepherd -- puppy to 1 year old in 40 seconds...

IT support tech arrives at the office bright and early to discover that all three of his company's buildings are without power, so he unplugs all the servers and turns off all the PC UPSs. Then he makes a small wager.

Apple true believers are well-known to be far more fiercely loyal than Microsoft fans. And a BBC documentary may have an answer: Brain scans may show that their brains are stimulated by all things Apple in the same way that religious believers have their brains fired by religious imagery.