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Implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has the potential to offer tremendous long-lasting benefits to the enterprise. First, it reduces cost by offering a smarter, better way of developing applications by turning both existing and new functionality into reusable services. The second SOA promise relates to composite applications that let developers leverage pieces of existing functionality and data that may be locked in independent applications and combine them to rapidly produce new business services or applications.

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IDC today announced plans for the inaugural IDC Green IT Forum East taking place February 28, 2008 at the New York Marriott Financial Center in New… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Citrix XenServer ™ Enterprise… Read more at VMblog.com.

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VirtualLogix ™ , Inc., the Real-Time Virtualization ™ company, today announced that its VirtualLogix ™ VLX has been named a finalist in the 18th… Read more at VMblog.com.

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CA today announced that its offerings in three critical systems management categories have been chosen as “ the best of the best ” by Enterprise… Read more at VMblog.com.

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VirtenSys, Ltd., the emerging leader in I/O virtualization solutions – a crucial new technology that enables organizations to optimize the data… Read more at VMblog.com.

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What a great question! What are nine things that can cause you to run out of capacity resources in your VMware ESX Server data center environment and Read more at VMblog.com.

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Tidal Software announced results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, ending December 31, 2007. Total revenue increased nearly 30% year over year for the first half, continuing the company’s strong growth. The company delivered its eighteenth quarter of profitable results and continued to be cash-flow positive. The company also continued its drive to acquire new customers, again achieving over half of new license revenue for the quarter from new accounts. Company officials attribute continued growth to the increasing market interest in solutions for automation in IT operations.

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Microsoft and Novell announced that French carmaker Renault SA has joined the growing ranks of customers taking advantage of the two companies’ cooperation to deliver greater interoperability between Microsoft Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Under the agreement, Microsoft will deliver to Renault more than 1,000 certificates for priority support subscriptions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, as Renault consolidates existing Linux distributions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with the goal of improving interoperability and taking better advantage of virtualization.

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Novell announced the availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z, a pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM’s System z mainframes. The starter system eliminates the need for IT managers to search for network access to installation media on the mainframe. With the new Starter System for System z, customers can quickly initiate evaluations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.

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