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[August 21, 2008] Second generation coming next month, Nehalem support due in a year. See More News...

Solid State Drives: No Flash in the Pan
[August 21, 2008] Hard-Core Hardware: Hard drive manufacturers will prefer you think otherwise, but with greater speed and more efficiency, solid state drives are here to stay. See More Hardware Articles...

Macs in the Enterprise: A Question of Emphasis
[August 20, 2008] OS Roundup: Mac OS X may well be ready for the enterprise. Is Apple? See More Enterprise Unix Roundup...

VMware, Microsoft Decide to Play Nice
[August 20, 2008] Virtualization newbie Microsoft and market leader VMware play nice, up to a point, with validation program. See More News...

Intel's Really Big Tech Fest
[August 19, 2008] A lot of Nehalem, a lot of Atom, and a lot of flash drive talk. Itanium? Not so much. See More News...

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Tip of the Trade: Nagios Plugins
[August 18, 2008] Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. From cron-apt to check_jabber and more, here are some to get you started. See More Tutorials...

Bug Befalls VMware
[August 15, 2008] It had to happen sooner or later. VMware's hypervisor caught its first bug. The problem itself is relatively minor. More important is how VMware is handling it as well as its partners' and users' perceptions. See More News...

The Great Industry Standard Conspiracy
[August 14, 2008] Hard-Core Hardware: As x86 becomes the ever-pervasive "standard," long-standing and capable RISC technologies and other architectures that don't conform are being pushed further into the cold. Natural market forces or deliberate positioning on the part of the OEMs? See More Hardware Articles...

Clearing the Muddied Waters of the Linux Contribution Process
[August 14, 2008] To better the OS and grow participation, Linux's backers want to help developers negotiate the complex community of people and processes. See More News...

Canonical's Power Play
[August 13, 2008] Ubuntu, coming soon to an enterprise near you -- if Canonical has its way. And Ubuntu's not the only distro with an eye on large organizations. See More Enterprise Unix Roundup...

Power to the Virtual
[August 12, 2008] Virtually Speaking: Virtual Iron is counting on LivePower to flip the switch. See More Virtualization Watch...

The Mainframe Lives On
[August 12, 2008] Don't yet the naysayers fool you, with sales up and software development continuing, the mainframe is far from dead. See More News...

Keeping Cool in the Server Room
[August 12, 2008] As more processing power gets crammed into the same amount of real estate, it is becoming increasingly challenging to get rid of excess heat. The latest solution -- water. See More Trends...

Tip of the Trade: ps Options
[August 11, 2008] Look beyond the basics of ps, and you'll find a wide array of options for managing system processes. See More Tutorials...

Virtual Standards Get Real
[August 8, 2008] Citrix CTO Simon Crosby explains how emerging standards in virtualization are bringing enterprises closer to the promise of any where, any time computing. See More Virtualization Watch...

The Switch Is On
[August 7, 2008] Hard-Core Hardware: Switch Communications' SuperNAP colo facility may be an indication that the internal data center could become an endangered specie within the next 10 years. See More Hardware Articles...

Virtual Panacea Found in Application Streaming
[August 7, 2008] For all its benefits, to some degree virtualization is a victim of its own success. Application streaming is one way to mitigate the side effects of increased density and added costs. See More Trends...

OS Roundup: The View Beyond Vista
[August 6, 2008] Has Microsoft written off Vista? The 18-month-old desktop OS has yet to gain significant traction, and rumblings of the next generation are starting to be heard. See More Enterprise Unix Roundup...

Virtually Speaking: IBM Goes High on Linux
[August 5, 2008] IBM's research shows virtualization adoption is helping to bring Linux to the high-end. See More Stats...

Microsoft to Feather Nest With Apache
[August 5, 2008] Microsoft appears to be burying the tomahawk and buying in to Apache. Bruce Perens weighs in on whether to trust this peace offering. See More Trends...

Virtualization Tools Power Up
[August 5, 2008] As enterprises continue investing heavily in virtual environments and infrastructure, more vendors are going live with tools to manage the proliferation. 3Leaf, Hyperic and SunGard announced new offerings this week. See More Virtualization Watch...

Tip of the Trade: Dragonfly BSD and the Hammer Filesystem
[August 4, 2008] Got clusters? Need a filesystem? If you're running Dragonfly BSD, consider Hammer. It may be a few months shy of a gold stamp, but its usability makes it worth checking out. See More Tutorials...

Are You Being Paid Enough?
[August 1, 2008] The 2008 IT Salary Guide lists salaries for many tech positions in the United States, broken down by both specialty and region. See More Trends...

Hard Core Hardware: Playing the Power and Cooling Sweepstakes
[July 31, 2008] Switch Communications Group's SuperNAP Colocation Facility in Las Vegas aims to match blade density with affordable power and cooling. Will it be a lucky bet for power-starved enterprises? See More Hardware Articles...

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