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Video: Savings from Virtualizing Physical Connections (Interview)

Jon Toor, vice president of marketing at Xsigo Systems, explains how to save money by virtualizing your physical NICs and HBAs in servers and using a Xsigo Systems Director to broker and manage I/O from physical and virtual servers.

Novell Rejects Buyout Offer

Novell's board calls $2 billion bid inadequate.

Google Offers Tool To Ditch Microsoft Exchange

Takes step to make it easier for IT to abandon MS Exchange for Google Apps

Report: Systems Engineer Is Best IT Job

Study examined positions with demand growth of at least 10 percent over the next decade.

Microsoft Ups E-Mail Service to 25 GB Storage

Mailbox size expanded for users of its hosted business productivity online suite of applications.

Microsoft and Adobe Collaborating on Security Patches

May lead to Adobe using Windows Update to distribute fixes

Microsoft and Citrix Boost Desktop Virtualization Efforts

Company announces licensing changes, technology improvements; extending Citrix Systems pact.



IBM Launches Public Cloud Service

Targeted at developers, testers

The Many Uses of Data Federation

Data federation is now regarded as a viable, necessary, and complementary DM practice, tapped alongside ETL to support an array of data integration scenarios.

Software Enables Complex Customer Searches Across Huge Database

New data warehousing and analytic software has made a world of difference for a firm that collects and rents e-mail names.

Dataupia's Hinshaw Back in the Saddle

CEO Foster Hinshaw's reemergence parallels the convalescence of Dataupia itself, which -- after a disastrous 2009 -- now claims to be back on track.

Microsoft and Adobe Collaborating on Security Patches

Developing solutions to improve the software update experience of its mutual customers.

IT Losing the War Against Spam

Spam now accounts for close to 90 percent of all e-mail traffic.

IE 9 Platform Preview Released at MIX10 Conference

Does not include fully functional browser

Intel's Nehalem-EX to Inaugurate a New Era in x86 Scalability

With new processor, x86 systems are poised to make a serious run at RISC-Unix

The Need for New Thinking about Backup/Recovery

Don't develop your backup plan based on what your DR software can do. Band-Aid fixes won't help -- we need to think about what and how you back up in a whole new way.

Big Blue Makes Its Bid for Next-Gen Nehalem Bragging Rights

IBM beat competitors HP and Dell out of the gate, trumpeting a trio of new Nehalem-EX systems running on the fifth generation of its eXA architecture.

Silverlight at MIX10: New Framework Tracks Web Analytics

Silverlight news will play a major part in Microsoft's annual MIX10 conference for Web developers and designers in Las Vegas this week

CA to Acquire Nimsoft

Buys system, network, and cloud network monitoring tools vendor.