The bullpen became the operational nerve center of city government and a signature feature of the Bloomberg administration.

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In addition to the command center that we have operational in Robert, Louisiana, we are opening a second command center in Mobile, Alabama, for the BP spill.

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There is still a lot to be done in removing operational cost inside the data center: Now-separate elements like compute, storage and networking are increasingly intertwined, and may eventually be subsumed into a single basic operation where few programmers go.

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The North Shore Regional Medical Center in Slidell, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, remained fully operational with 174 beds, said Steve Campanini, spokesman for Tenet HealthCare, which operates it.

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Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.

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"The LSI WarpDrive card sets a new standard for data center efficiency by providing IT administrators with previously unattainable levels of performance while helping to reduce operational and capital expenditures, " said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI.

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Symantec also intends to integrate the PGP key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, which simplifies security information management by providing customers consolidated access to threat, security and operational dashboards and reporting.

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