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Vizioncore tool will soon manage Hyper-V, Xen: Vizioncore's management tool vFoglight will work with Microsoft's virtualization platform Hyper-V by the middle of the year and with Xen from Citrix...

Modular Data Centers: A Fast, Secretive Option Spreads: Today's containerized data centers, also known as modular data centers, are niche products often quietly chosen by customers in emergency situations....

Recession shifts IT service management into fast lane: The recession has helped convince companies to adapt IT processes to help cut costs and improve service delivery to internal users.

Virtualized WAN Optimization - The Road to Cloud Computing WHITE PAPER: The Promise of Virtualization is real; improving server availability, enabling application scalability, and network cost reduction. It is also the...

Citrix buys Paglo to boost asset management: Desktop management and virtualization software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo for an undisclosed amount, the...

VMware to acquire software, R&D staff from RTO Software: VMware has acquired three management tools from RTO Software, and will integrate them into its products for desktop and application virtualization,...

IBM extending sensor use beyond data centers: IBM yesterday outlined plans to extend the use of sensors to monitor and control data center equipment to improve the efficiency of buildings and...

Building a Successful Security Operations Center WHITE PAPER: Get this whitepaper on industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to...

Higher Ed, Lower Costs: Colleges Remake Data Centers: Driven by the lean economy, large enterprises have been cutting data center costs for the past three years, but higher education has generally not...

Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving: Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving in a changing world, as these IT executives can attest.

Fed IT Budget Chokes Spending, Eliminates Data Centers: President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal flattens federal IT spending and calls for departments to consolidate IT operations and implement the...

Four Simple Steps to Reducing Downtime WHITE PAPER: IT process management expert & CIO Niel Nickolaisen reviews his proven change management best practices and how IT departments can reduce downtime by...

Smart Storage Options for Home PC Data: The amount of data flying around your home just continues to multiply, creating a storage squeeze. CIO.com's Bill Snyder shares the lowdown on three...

IT services vendor takes China Internet quirks in stride: A fledgling Shanghai company aims to tap rising demand for back-end IT services in China, where red tape and other woes can make it complex to...

IBM will inch up heat in new data center: IBM has opened a football field-size data center in North Carolina it says will rely heavily on outside air for cooling as it turns up the heat...

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