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[email protected] THE BUSINESS VALUE OFC TECHNOLOGYONTENTS Sept.7, 2009 Issue 1,240 2 Links COVER STORY Research And Connect InformationWeek’s Analytics Hybrid Clouds Reports, events, and more 15 Getting your data center to work with public cloud 6 Global CIO services isn’t easy By Bob Evans Virginia puts IT supplier on “corrective action plan”—we What’s In The should all be so lucky! 3377 Public Cloud 8 How 12 vendors are CIO Profiles delivering on infrastructure Availability Is Crucial as a service How good a service is doesn’t matter if customers can’t get to it, says VeriSign’s CTO Oracle Puts 11g On The Grid 11 QuickTakes Oracle upgrades database with VMware Wants It All data center grid features Vendor tries to get more cloud providers to use its software by 13 Google’s Down,Not Out challenging Xen When Gmail went offline,