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Virtualization Enters ‘2.0’ Era
NEW YORK CITY—In the coming 18 months, virtualization, already a mainstream tool for IT administrators looking to consolidate applications within a data center, will continue to be adopted within enterprises as companies expand the technology to plan for business continuity and create high-availability servers. In addition, virtualization will become more available in desktops and within…
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EMC to Cut Back on Acquisitions, Focus on Business
SAN FRANCISCO—Data storage giant EMC has been a consistent swallower of other companies over the past five years, acquiring no fewer than 31 of them—some large, some small—during that period. For the time being, however, the big whale from Hopkinton, Mass., looks as though it might lose some weight sifting through plankton instead of engulfing…
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EMC Partner: Plenty of Room in the Online Vault
EMC partner AmeriVault says it’s unconcerned by the vendor’s seeming interest in online vaulting, the Managed Storage Provider’s turf since 1998. EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci on Feb. 6 told a standing-room-only press conference at the RSA Security Conference 2007 that the storage vendor is currently researching and apparently will pursue an online archiving…
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Red Hat Lands Swedish Windows-to-Linux Contract
Nine times out of 10, Linux migration contracts are about companies switching from Unix to Linux. This one’s the tenth. Red Hat announced on Feb. 6 in Stockholm, Sweden that the Swedish Armed Forces has decided to migrate its servers from Windows NT to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). With the deal, FMLOG Servicedesk, the…
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AMD Offers Low-Power Opteron Processors
Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest maker of PC and server processors, is looking to offer new, lower power-per-watt configurations in its dual-core Opteron server chip line. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker will release the new power-per-watt configurations, along with new pricing, on Feb. 7, company officials said. They said the new thermal envelopes, combined…
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RSA to Partner with McAfee and Privaris, Buy Valyd
RSA does not just host the biggest vendor-driven security event of the year. It also makes news of its own. At its RSA Conference in San Francisco, RSA, the security division of EMC, announced Feb. 7 that it has signed an agreement with McAfee to work together on a security platform that will help its…
