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Virtualization: Beware of Server Overload
Virtualization vendors may tout the potential of putting 20, 50 or even 100 virtual machines on a single physical machine. But those ratios are dangerous for resource-intensive, mission-critical applications.

Cisco's Chambers sees economy on the mend
Cisco Systems' results for its fiscal quarter ended last month indicate the world economy is entering a second phase of recovery, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Wednesday.

Cisco's McCool sees growing data-center role
While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data centers. The dominant LAN provider thinks the transformation of data centers through virtualization calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool oversees this push as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group. IDG News Service talked with McCool recently about the company's own role and its partnerships with other vendors in this arena.

The Combo Platter
HP, IBM and Dell are pursuing a strategy of selling servers, storage and networking as a package. For CIOs, this means trading flexibility for efficiency.

Servers get a makeover in 2010
As virtualization takes over, enterprises are ordering more systems fully loaded with maximum processing power, memory and I/O capabilities.

Patch Management Made Easy with WSUS 3.0 SP2
One of the challenges that comes with running a network is keeping your operating systems patched and secure. In response to this problem, Microsoft has released Windows Server Update Service 3.0 SP2 as a means to centrally download updates and control how they are deployed to the computers throughout your network. Additionally, WSUS provides extensive reporting features to quickly give you a snapshot of your computers' status. If your network is big enough to have a server and use Active Directory, it's big enough to benefit from using WSUS.

Integrated IT Overhaul Keeps Company On The Move
North American Material Trading Company, a metal trading and processing firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, recently acquired two nearby manufacturing plants and opened a satellite office in Tampa, Florida. It wasn't long before management realized that each location featured a disconnected jumble of outdated equipment.

Reducing data center energy consumption
While the acquisition cost for servers is declining, the total cost of ownership for housing, powering and cooling them has increased by 500% since 2000. Yet research from the Uptime Institute reveals that 60% of the available cooling in a typical computer room is wasted due to airflow losses, also called "bypass airflow."

Paperless Office Solution Rescues Ambulance Service
When the first responders at Georgia-based National EMS go to work, they save lives. They also produce a mountain of paperwork, all of which must be accurately managed and securely stored for a minimum of seven years. The storage of all these documents was a monumental task, requiring the company to use a large warehouse space to store it all. And the labor hours wasted in storing and managing it all, and retrieving documents as needed, was overwhelming the 12-person office staff.

Nehalem tower servers: Dell, Fujitsu, HP
I have to admit that I get a little excited whenever a new generation of scorch-your-eyebrows-off CPUs hits the server market. So when I got a chance to check out the newest Intel Nehalem Xeon systems, I made sure my insurance policy was up to date and relocated any breakables to another room.

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