It's official. Microsoft has released beta 2 of its Vista operating system, With its "Longhorn" Server system and Office 2007 all available, the release marks the first time Microsoft has had all three of its primary software products available for testing at the same time. Speaking at the annua... Read More...

PlateSpin today announced the general availability of the Consolidation Planning Module for PlateSpin PowerRecon, a completely automated analysis engine which determines optimal fit between application workloads and server resources. The Consolidation Planning Module takes hardware, software and per... Read More...

There are two very different kinds of virtualization making headlines these days. The second one, resource virtualization for management purposes, seems wholly laudable. Whether used to manage storage, processing, or networking a virtual system constructed as kind of unified console for two or more ... Read More...

Under-utilized servers are an enormous factor in today's IT budget crisis, with system utilization inside large corporate data centers rarely exceeding 10 percent. Virtualization has the potential to slash IT costs by letting organizations accomplish more work with fewer servers. But virtualizati... Read More...

In support of the launch, AMD also added two new chips: an AMD64 2.8-GHz FX-62 processor, priced at $1,031, and an AMD 2.6-GHz 5000+ processor, priced at $696. Both prices represent lots of 1,000 units. The new processors represent a true switch for AMD; the socket shift is a top-to-bottom transi... Read More...