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  • VMware Seeks ‘Virtual’ Success with New Software

    After a four-month beta run, VMware is preparing to release the full version of its Converter 3 virtualization software Jan. 29. The Palo Alto, Calif., company, the leader in x86 server virtualization software, is releasing the full version of its product after beta testing the software since Oct. 2. The software allows automation of physical-to-virtual…

  • Prepare for Vista Future

    Despite all the hoopla around Microsoft’s Windows Vista, enterprise IT managers won’t—and shouldn’t—rush en masse to the new operating system. Nonetheless, eWEEK Labs advises that administrators examine tools such as FullArmor’s ADMX Migrator to better understand and prepare for the operating system’s presence in the network. One of Vista’s great under-the-hood enhancements is dramatically improved…

  • Virtualization Demand Grows

    Virtualizing spinning-disk data storage systems is no longer simply a trend; it’s now the norm and considered vital to backing up, archiving, and protecting data for a growing number of businesses large and small. The days of simply adding storage hardware to an IT system and pouring in e-mail, word documents, spreadsheets, photos and everything…

  • Sun, Intel Patch Up Their Differences

    After years of animosity and public sniping that often came from the highest levels of both companies, a partnership between Sun Microsystems and Intel made too much business sense for the tech giants to ignore. For Sun, the announcement of the partnership Jan. 22 is a way of expanding its growing x86 server business beyond…

  • Next-Gen Jim Rapoza

    It’s the latest and greatest new thing! It will solve all your technology problems and save you time and money! It’s not only a big productivity booster, but it’s also cool, l33t, wicked awesome—whatever the cool kids are saying nowadays. It’s Jim Rapoza 2.0! So what is Jim Rapoza 2.0? It’s sort of like classic…

  • IBM Enters Social Scene

    IBM’s Lotus Division is taking on Microsoft in the highly competitive market of social software for businesses with its new Lotus Connections products. Speaking at the Lotusphere show here Jan. 22, Michael Rhodin, general manager of IBM Lotus, said the announcements represented the “most dramatic expansion of collaborative technology ever,” particularly in comparison with competitive…

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