NASA's new supercomputer aims for 10 PFLOPS by 2012
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First Look: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1
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Opinion: The IT ballet -- redundancy, efficiency, recoverability
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Opinion: Microsoft versus VMware: IT Loses
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Opinion: Promise for protecting laptops
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Disaster planning, mix-and-match style
Why waste your time and money worrying about something that may never happen? Instead, figure out what type of outage is most likely to hit your geographic area, and plan for that.

Performance showdown: Flash drives versus hard disk drives
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