Data Center

Virtualization gets hotter with support

* Several vendors announce new products to support virtualization

Harvard Business School manages bandwidth, security in one fell swoop

* Packeteer's PacketShaper addresses bandwidth management and peer-to-peer traffic issues

IT field spurs employee loyalty

* The Dice Tech Appeal Index

Combining approaches for power savings

* An idea for combining different technologies to save electricity

Analysts predict hot, cramped time for data centers

Survey: ITIL’s ROI hard to measure

Microsoft’s Ballmer rekindles Linux patent fears

Sparks fly less than a month after Microsoft and Novell signed partnership

Virtualization takes toll on physical server sales

Malaysian thieves steal chips worth millions

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