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Veritas offers free datacentre check service

Veritas offers free datacentre check service

Veritas has launched a service aimed at helping companies get more out of their datacentre investments by checking for problems and advising on ways to fix them.

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Enterprise architecture: Learn from the chicken

Enterprise architecture: Learn from the chicken

Use the natural boundaries principle and cut through the joints.

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Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Recently Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president of VMware, said the traditional server operating system was obsolete. Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the future of the OS and cloud-based services.

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What's Red Hat doing in the virtualisation business?

What's Red Hat doing in the virtualisation business?

Even before Red Hat bought the virtualisation company Qumranet, with its Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform, Red Hat had made it clear that it was moving into virtualisation in a big way.

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VMWorld 2008: VMware touts 'the cloud' at user conference

VMWorld 2008: VMware touts 'the cloud' at user conference

At chief executive Paul Maritz's first VMworld conference, the company previewed a broad set of technology designed to help enterprises become cloud computing providers to their employees.

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Focus on virtualisation as financial world shakes

Focus on virtualisation as financial world shakes

Users need to warily embrace virtualisation, according to speakers at Interop assessing how to proceed with technology investments in the face of possible IT budget cuts.

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