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Power management middleware bows for server grids

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Q&A: Nicholas Carr on the big switch to utility computing
The economics of utility computing will drive IT services to the Internet, according to Nicholas Carr, author of the new book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google."

Servers Go Front and Center
As organizations consolidate their systems and prepare for new versions of key software such as Windows Server 2008, major server-related projects are getting put on the front burner.

Forget the OLPC: Here's a 30-children-per-desktop solution
While the One Laptop Per Child initiative struggles with its business model, other projects have other ideas about bringing low-cost computing to schools around the world. One firm, NComputing, claims to already have half a million students on its system -- one thatll look rather familiar to corporate IT folk.

Observation Grid
University of Southern Californias Globus Medicus allows transfer and review of medical images in near real time among grid-enabled sites.

Grid computing: Term may fade, but features will live on
Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively.

Aaron E. Walsh: Advocate of Virtual Reality

Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid
With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraflops of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the continent.

Q&A: Microsoft's utility computing guru talks about his in-house support challenges
Devin Murray, Microsoft's group manager of utility services, says the vendor's server utilization issues are much like everyone else's -- except it has a lot more systems to deal with than most companies do.

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IT Protects IP First; Customer Data ...

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