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By CIO Staff Jun 15, 2012 1 min Business Intelligence Data Management Virtualization news analysis Why Your IT Outsourcing RFP Is Holding You Back The traditional request-for-proposal (RFP) process may be doing your IT outsourcing relationships a disservice. Enter request for solutions (or RFS), an open-ended, collaborative approach that's better for IT environments. By Stephanie Overby Jun 15, 2012 6 mins IT Leadership IT Strategy Outsourcing news VMware Patches Arbitrary Code Execution Flaw in Desktop, Server Virtualization Products Loading specially crafted virtual machine checkpoint files can result in the host system being compromised By Lucian Constantin Jun 15, 2012 2 mins Desktop Virtualization Patch Management Software Server Virtualization news Siri’s Steep (and Long) Learning Curve Siri, the iPhone's voice-enabled personal assistant, has a big problem: It doesn't really work the way Apple says it does. 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