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  • Microsoft Issues Hyper-V Release Candidate

    Microsoft made the feature-complete Release Candidate for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V available to customers and partners March 19, as the company moves to meets its own August deadline to deliver the final code. "This is a key milestone signaling that Microsoft is on track to deliver Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization by August 2008," Bill Hilf,…

  • Intel to Sell Classmate PC in U.S., Europe

    BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Intel Corp, the world’s biggest computer chip maker, will soon expand its distribution of low-cost educational laptops to retail distributors in the United States and Europe, a company executive said on Wednesday. Computer makers will start selling Intel-designed Classmate PCs in those markets for about $250 to $350, making them the latest super…

  • HP Embeds Citrix XenServer in ProLiant Systems

    Hewlett-Packard is adding another virtualization option to its line of ProLiant systems. Company officials announced March 19 that they will begin embedding a co-developed version of Citrix’s XenServer virtualization software into 10 different ProLiant systems starting March 31. They also have developed a set of management tools that will create and control the various virtual…

  • Zenoss Unveils Open-Source Platform for MSPs

    Open-source network monitoring and management vendor Zenoss March 20 unveiled a new platform for managed service providers that will target small and midmarket customers. "Our sweet spot has traditionally been above the midmarket," said Bill Karpovich, CEO and co-founder of Zenoss, adding that Rackspace, a hosted application provider customer, uses Zenoss software to monitor and…

  • Sun Takes Its Tech to the Masses

    Sun Microsystems wants to show that it is more than just a high-end enterprise shop. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, which has traditionally catered to large financial firms, telecommunications companies and the federal government, is looking to expand its reach to include small yet tech-savvy companies with a need for a more robust IT infrastructure…

  • Novell, SAP Push SUSE Linux to Cut TCO

    Novell and SAP have announced that they will customize SAP’s enterprise applications to work even more efficiently with SUSE Linux Enterprise and its associated virtualization and identity management technologies. According to the press release, Novell and SAP will optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP’s data center applications, further promote SAP’s SUSE Linux-based Business All-in-One solutions…

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