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Ctera, a startup making its debut this week, has a device designed to seamlessly connect network attached storage to online backup services such as Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Service. The product,... Read more...

Microsoft announced earlier this week that its System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) will be ready by end of the year. This will bring Microsoft in line to ship within the last three months... Read more...

Former chief operating officer of Delta Airlines, now chief executive over at Red Hat wastes no words to convey his beliefs: "The clouds will all run Linux." In an interview with CNET News.com,... Read more...

The Red Hat summit in Boston last week saw Red Hat opening a beta of its Linux-based oVirt hypervisor that weights in at less than 64MB. oVirt is based on the KVM -... Read more...

You may not be Santa Claus, but you don't want to be Scrooge either. And one of the most important management tools you have is perks that keep your staff happy. It's a challenging idea because many... Read more...

As data centers get more complex, executives are turning to technologies and processes like ITIL, storage capacity management and virtualization to consolidate and simplify their environments,... Read more...

Many large companies are integrating Web analytics tools into applications like email campaign software and keyword bid-management tools in the hopes of using them to plan, run and adjust Internet... Read more...

SOA has lots of benefits, but it isn't without its challenges. The task of identifying universal processes and tools that are used by the entire organization and by separate departments can be... Read more...

Microsoft today released Service Pack 2 for the company's SQL Server 2005 software, available as a free download at the company's website. In a move that will please virtualization enthusiasts, Microsoft also announced a new licensing agreement that will allow unlimited virtual instances of the SQL Server SP2 database to run on servers that are licensed for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. As for the Service Pack, it will enhance interoperability with database products from other …

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