<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tholons White Papers</title><link>http://www.tholons.com/pages/research_01_whtpapers.aspx</link><description>Tholons White Papers</description><copyright>(c) 2008, tholons All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>3</ttl><item><title>Virtualization ? The Future of Computing</title><link>http://www.tholons.com/pages/research_01_whtpapers.aspx</link><description>In most large firms servers are running, on average, at 10 percent CPU utilization. This means lots of expensive computing capacity is sitting idle. With virtualization, a layer of software emulates the underlying hardware of a server, allowing a system to run multiple operating systems and their associated application programs. It is estimated that 20% savings can be realized using virtualization in production environments</description></item><item><title>The Philippine Animation Industry Landscape</title><link>http://www.tholons.com/pages/research_01_whtpapers.aspx</link><description>Animation is currently one of the emerging outsourcing services offered by the Philippines. With the beginnings of animation in the country being traced as early as the 1980?s, this fairly long history lends the Philippines its reputation as one of the stronger Asian players in the global animation industry today.</description></item><item><title>2008 Half Year Analysis of M&amp;As in the Services Space August 2008</title><link>http://www.tholons.com/pages/research_01_whtpapers.aspx</link><description>Tholons Capital presents its half yearly analysis of the M&amp;A activity happening in services globalization arena. How had the sub-prime crisis and economic slowdown affected deal making in the globalization arena? We did a deep dive to highlight some interesting trends and draw inferences.</description></item><item><title>Outsourcing:Expansion by Diversification</title><link>http://www.tholons.com/pages/research_01_whtpapers.aspx</link><description>Diversification is the strategy for reducing the risk of investing in a single industry, market or a small number of companies, by spreading the risk over several industries, markets or a larger number of companies.</description></item></channel></rss>