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CiRBA, Inc., provider of data center intelligence solutions, recently announced that the company has seen tremendous growth throughout 2007, noting that the virtualization and consolidation planning software markets have finally emerged. Consumers are becoming well aware of the problems with server sprawl, space constraints and power consumption in their data centers, forcing them to take a more holistic and critical view of their environments. “Virtualization and consolidation rank high as strategic priorities, as IT executives seek to reduce physical server counts and complexity within IT infrastructures,” said Gerry Smith, president and CEO of CiRBA. “Our remarkable growth over the past… READ MORE

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I was reading Hu Yoshida’s Blog over at HDS where he discusses both server virtualization and storage virtualization. In the blog, Hu makes some interesting claims about the evolution of storage virtualization (at the block level). Hu defines three phases…

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Migo Software, Inc announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 7,299,422, titled System and Method for Transferring Personalization Information Among Computer Systems, to Migo Software for its mobile content synchronization and virtualization technology. Already in use in the market, the patent covers a method for transferring personalization information among PCs. The Company has a portfolio of additional patent applications pending.

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While I think that many technical folks are in violent agreement that Web Services and SOA are not necessarily the same thing, the question: what is the alternative approach? remains unanswered. Everyone seems to be struggling to define an alternative approach to WS*, however, very few provide a clear end-to-end definition on how to turn existing stateful tier-based applications into linearly scalable services.

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iPhone Developer Summit (www.iphonedevsummit.com) announced today Kevin Hoffman as the Tech Chair of the Conference. The letter from the Tech Chair at the conference Website contained the following message: What’s the impact of the iPhone going to be on the delivery of rich content to mobile users? How does Google’s new Android differ from the iPhone SDK and iPhone Safari development? When should you use the iPhone SDK versus developing web applications?

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Server virtualization often makes sense, but congested networks can quickly mitigate whatever initial benefits it delivers. Companies can use intelligent Ethernet or Fibre Channel cards or virtualize their I/O with InfiniBand to reap the full benefits of virtualization without its unexpected surprises.

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Mid-Atlantic Computers, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement with Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file… Read more at VMblog.com.

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CiRBA Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence, today announced the release of Version 4.5 of its leading virtualization and consolidation analysis Read more at VMblog.com.

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FORTRESS ITX, the premier boutique Internet infrastructure outsourcing partner for the enterprise, announced today it has launched a new grid hosting Read more at VMblog.com.

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