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Microsoft's $500M Iowa data center to use shipping containers
The data center, to be built on 42 acres in a Des Moines suburb, was spurred by tax breaks and the lower costs of energy and doing business overall in the Midwestern state. Read more...

SQL Server 2008's future 'cloudy' as Microsoft releases new database

New EMC Clariion line adds solid-state option

HP acquisition of EDS to be completed by Sept. 30

LinuxWorld: Showcasing the OS in data centers, mobile devices, e-voting

Stock Exchanges Start Thinking in Microseconds

Sun warns of Q1 loss due to U.S. economic woes

IBM plans large cloud data center in North Carolina

Microsoft shows off data center monitoring system

HP, Intel and Yahoo team up on cloud-computing research effort

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Get Your Head in the Cloud
Mark Hall learns about a service that monitors your online services.

Oracle looks to Utah for green data center
Thanks to dry outside air, high server density and containment of cooling, Oracle expects to achieve much more power efficiency than at its main data center in Austin.

Inside the CIA's extreme technology makeover, part 1
In a first-ever media interview with the CIO, the inner IT workings of the secret intelligence agency are explained -- with an emphasis on supporting more data sharing amongst different agencies in the post-9/11 war on terror.

Review: Cisco Nexus 5000 bridges the network gap
This new switch is among first to handle the new Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol and promises to make consolidating FC and Ethernet traffic as easy and reliable as bringing together Ethernet connections with different speeds on the same switch.

Transforming the data center from hell
Extreme heat, a dangerous server layout, nonexistent service and other major problems were ultimately resolved by these three IT'ers focused on change.

Review: Juniper switch proves to be credible choice
While Juniper clearly still has work to do, especially in its multicast code and security, the blazing fast EX 4200 represents a real challenge to Cisco for enterprise access switching.

How to get started in virtual-world operations
A service provider can help you build a virtual-world environment for your network operations or data center. However, there's a lot you can do on your own that's comparatively easy and affordable.

Firm spends $75M on green data center
Building a brand-new facility allowed this start-up to tend to even seemingly small details like the length of high-speed cabling that connects the UPS gear to the computers.

Five lessons of a data center overhaul
Putting someone in charge of tracking the details, including order management and shipping, would have really saved some time, trouble and money for the University of Hawaii. Learn from its mistakes.

IT departments waste energy, U.K. survey finds
Study finds 76% of U.K. companies surveyed have no targets for reducing power usage.

Here are 15 devices and add-ons that make the back-to-school computing experience extraordinary.
As Facebook-like apps infiltrate the enterprise, they're integrating the workforce in unforeseen ways.
If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money.
The latest iteration of Asus' groundbreaking mini-notebook adds a faster CPU, a larger display and a better keyboard.
Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.
Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
Business Transaction Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments
(Source: Optier) The evolution of complex, multi-tier IT environments poses a growing number of virtualization management challenges, consequently hampering an organization's ability to monitor and control application performance effectively across the physical and virtual layers.

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"In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, we wonder why Cisco is buying a tiny company called PostPath for $215 million -- could..." Read more Read More Blogs

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Adoption of virtualization is concentrated among large enterprises, while mid-sized companies have hesitated because of concerns about cost, complexity, and vendor lock-in. In this paper we discuss how Citrix XenServer™, based on the open source Xen hypervisor, provides comprehensive, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment.

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Business Value of Virtualized IT: Ensuring That Your Virtualized Servers and Storage Work in Harmony
The growing number of virtualized servers is affecting storage network environments, policies for provisioning capacity, and storage management and data protection practices. Storage assets allocated to virtualized servers can help deliver significant business value, but when deployed incorrectly can lead to "unintended consequences" that minimize the original business value of server virtualization. In this paper, IDC examines how implementing a virtualized networked storage environment ensures that organizations can maximize the benefits of server virtualization.

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