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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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> The pros, and the cons of email that goes poof. Article > 'Serious' flaws found in Mac OS X. Read more...

Microsoft has announced that Office 2007, the new version of the company's industry-standard productivity suite, has been released for manufacturing. Now for the important part: Why should we care? Welcome to Software Marketing 101: If you've got new tools and functionality, flaunt them like there's no tomorrow. To that end, Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 "includes the …

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Thanks to some recent acquisitions, IBM is about ready to rollout Tivoli Process Manager, a set of unified management tools that utilize electronic sensors to keep track of IT physical assets, including--but not limited to--IT gear.  "Non-IT assets are getting embedded chips, embedded software stacks and IP (Internet protocol) addresses," said Al Zollar, general manager of IBM's Tivoli division. "They have to be managed just like servers and desktops." With the debut of Tivoli …

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If you're looking to shore up security then it's definitely worthwhile to check out an in-depth guide to the six worst security mistakes an enterprise can make. The list includes; not building a Read more...