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Five Questions to Ask Before Starting a Storage Virtualization Project

Industry experts and IT leaders share five key questions, addressing the main types of storage virtualization, complexity, exit strategies, and more.

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008: Free Download

Microsoft brings its bare-metal hypervisor platform, Hyper-V Server 2008, to market and makes it a freely downloadable virtualization product

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VMware Issues Security Updates for ESX, VirtualCenter

Get up to speed on VMware's latest security issues: Pointers to details and patches here.

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Microsoft Revamps Application Virtualization, Management Tools

New version of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack arrives; desktop management toolset has updates to application virtualization and asset management tools. Early next year, you'll see some fruit from Microsoft's acquisition of desktop virtualization firm Kidaro.

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CA Makes Virtualization Push, Stays Above VMware vs. Microsoft Fray

With an eye to virtualization management, CA today released new data center automation tools and nine other products. Like HP, CA is trying to position itself as a Switzerland for virtualization management tools, neutral to the battle between VMware and Microsoft. CA's CEO talked with CIO.com about the company's vision for the virtualized data center.

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HP Buys LeftHand Networks to Fill Storage Virtualization Gap

The $360 million deal to buy LeftHand, an innovator in iSCSI SANs, will broaden HP's offerings in storage virtualization, especially for midmarket customers.

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Amazon's EC2 Cloud Service Plays Nice with Windows

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.

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IBM Previews Virtualization Security Products

IBM offered a sneak peek at products targeting security issues in the virtualization world, due by early next year. IBM's new "Phantom" research initiative will optimize security software to work within virtual server environments.

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The Devilish Details of Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization still hasn't won over enteprise IT the way that server virtualization has, but the pioneers are reaping the benefits.

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VMware CEO Maritz Talks Data Center OS, Tackles Rivals

At VMworld, VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz sat down for a one-on-one chat and talked about the company's ambitious plans for a data center OS, his former employer and now arch-rival Microsoft, and more.

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While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server related equipment is generally understood it's a different story when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares several common storage solutions.
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