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  • Dell on a debunking mission

    Models of utility computing promoted by Sun, IBM and Hewlett-Packard need a "reality check", said a senior Dell executive.

  • Oracle enters the grid

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  • Virtual servers: vendors square off

    The three main competitors in the Intel server virtualisation space--VMware, Connectix, and SWsoft--offer unique approaches. To help you decide which solution best suits your company's needs, read interviews with these three vendors.

  • IBM expands flexible computing plan

    IBM added muscle to its "on-demand" computing push Thursday, with the debut of several efforts designed to help it defend its position in the technology world.

  • IBM: Grids, the Internet and Everything

    Wladawksy-Berger believes the Internet is on the verge of becoming a global virtual computer, like a utility power grid, with computing resources available on demand.

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  • Cranking up corporate clock speeds

    Concepts such as utility computing, Web services and business process management shouldn't be considered in isolation but rather as components of the real-time enterprise (RTE).

  • Oracle enters the grid

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  • Confused about virtualisation?

    After years of relative serenity, storage virtualisation became hot last year. It also became a great deal more complex -- and confusing.

  • Virtualisation climbs up confusion scale

    After years of relative serenity, storage virtualisation became hot last year. It also became a great deal more complex -- and confusing.

  • Green your datacentre or it may go dark

    Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

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  • Round-up: Dual-core servers

    Multi-core processors deliver many benefits, including much-improved performance per watt, over single-core designs. We examine three dual-core servers from the leading vendors to see what this technology can do for your business.

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