HP-EDS merger could lead to services job cuts
EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer said that increased IT automation — a top priority of Mark Hurd, his soon-to-be new boss at HP — may lead to "job adjustments" after HP buys EDS. Read more...

Cisco data center chief steps down

Multiple short outages can add up to major data center problems

At Interop, vendors vie for green IT appeal

Sun plans job cuts, blames weak Q3 results on U.S. economy

IBM raises IQ of intelligent power management

Microsoft System Center gets cross-platform support

Interop to offer products for app delivery in the data center, 802.11n survey tools

Wind power data center project planned in urban area

Sun eyes energy-efficient servers

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Digital Realty mines old building and gets LEED gold
You don't have to start from scratch to go green, the firm found when retrofitting an old building into a modern data center.

Opinion: Criteria for choosing data protection products has changed
The problem with products such as EMC's NetWorker, Symantec's NetBackup and IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager, is that their origins go back almost two decades to when enterprises protected far fewer servers, the primary backup target was tape and enterprises had time to set up, configure and manage these products. Today's data centers are very different.

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Consolidating your data center? Avoid these pitfalls
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Estes Express Lines
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Hancock Bank
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Marriott International
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Surviving the Big One
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Q&A: Dell exec addresses service woes in run-up to IT-as-a-service launch
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