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The pros and cons of deploying virtual machines with ease.

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Is Cisco Unloading To Pump Up The Numbers?

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Sunday May 11, 2008 Columnists | Blogs | Editorials | Forums
Deni Connor

Storage Alert by Deni Connor Mimosa rolls out software for unstructured data
Mimosa Systems this week is complementing its e-mail archiving software with a file archiving product for Windows networks ...

Denise Dubie

Network/Systems Management Alert by Denise Dubie Microsoft's infrastructure management aspirations
Microsoft wants to change a key number in the systems management market: the big ...

Mitchell Ashley's blog by Mitchell Ashley Is Cisco Unloading To Pump Up The Numbers?
Just what's going on at Cisco? And is this a sign of things to come? Brad Reese has a stunning post today with his ...

Managing Microsoft by Kerrie Meyler Of Flying Pigs
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