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Two former employees of the District of Columbiarsquo  Office of Chief Technology Officer have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a kickback scheme they participated in there, the U.S. Department of Justice said.Yusuf Acar, the former acting chief security officer in the CTOrsquo  office, was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Farrukh Awan, a former contract employee there, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on the same day.The two employees, in earlier guilty pleas, said they steered work to Advanced Integrated Technologies, a Washington, D.C., IT services and outsourcing firm where Sushil Bansal served as CEO. Acar, in his guilty plea, said he accepted bribes from Bansal on at least 59 occasions between September 2005 and March 2009, the DOJ said i <a href=https://www.owala-water-bottle.us>owala website</a> n a press release. Bansal paid Acar nearly $559,000 in bribes, the DOJ said. Acar pleaded guilty in December t <a href=https://www.owala-water-bottle.ca>owala canada</a> o charges of bribery and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity.Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered Acar, 41, of Washington, to pay nearly $559,000 in restitution. Acar has been held in prison without bond since March 2009, when he was arrested.Awan, in his guilty plea, said he worked with Acar and Bansal to steer business to Advanced Integrated Technologies between September 2005 and January 2007, the DOJ said. Awan and Acar both sat on panels responsible for assessing candidates for certain p <a href=https://www.hydro-jug.ca>hydrojug canada</a> osit Nxcl OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess
The growing maturity of virtual desktop technologies and customer interest in Windows 7 has virtual desktop infrastructure vendors expecting big adoption numbers in 2010. But while most CIOs are at least thinking about desktop virtualization, this yearrsquo  projects may be limited to pilots and small deployments because of up-front costs and technology challenges that hamper user experience.VDI shootout: VMware, Citrix win VDI sof <a href=https://www.stanley-canada.ca>stanley canada</a> tware test; Pano Logic is hardware winnerAn ITIC survey of more than 800 b <a href=https://www.stanley-uk.uk>stanley mug</a> usinesses worldwide shows that 31% of respondents plan to implement VDI this year, more than double the previous year. A related technology, application virtualization, is also on the upswing with 37% of r <a href=https://www.polenefr.fr>polene fr</a> espondents planning implementations, an increase from 15% the previous year. Likewise, Gartner has found that 33% of organizations plan to deploy hosted virtual desktops in 2010. The flip side to those numbers is that about two-thirds of customers either wonrsquo;t deploy desktop and application virtualization this year, or are undecided. Therersquo  good reason for that, says Burton Group analyst Chris Wolf.The ROI case for virtual desktops <over>three to five years] is break-even at best right now, Wolf says. Contrary to what vendors are claiming, the ROI isnrsquo;t there for a large-scale, server-hosted virtual desktop deployment.  See related story: 5 virtual desktop pitfalls. Some early adopters say they have saved money by
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