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Tech-Ed: Gates' Farewell to Developers Focuses on Silverlight, Velocity, Oslo

Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.

Hardware Heavyweights

First Impressions: Scalent V/OE

With Scalent, management of a mixed virtual and physical data center can be a one-person operation.

Sun's Red-Hot Strategy

Through acquisitions and homegrown tools, the company has amassed a dizzying array of offerings.

Rogue VMs -- Be Very Afraid

Unmanaged virtual machines have become an increasing threat to many organizations. Is your infrastructure safe?

Virtualization Improves Developer Productivity

The many ways virtualization technology can help you and your team get more done.

Competition: Parallel Universe

Popular with Mac users, the Windows world is its next target.

Case Study: 'Thinking Outside of the Box'

How The George Washington University IT department saved money, consolidated servers and optimized workloads.

Big Blue: Still Pushing the Envelope

IBM virtual tools range from desktops to servers -- with a mainframe twist on the side.

ESXi: Embedded HYPErvisor?

VMware's lightweight version of ESX is a good product. But is it all it's cracked up to be? Our mythbuster does some debunking.

Competition: Tiny Giant

This server virtualization startup is growing rapidly, and believes it can compete with VMware by offering similar functionality at a lower price.

News: VKernel Ships Bottleneck Analyzer

New tool analyzes performance of VMs running on VMware ESX Server

News: VMware's Results Ease Concerns

Threats from virt competitors keep outlook cautious for VMware moving forward

News: Wyse Unveils Viance

Viance optimized to work with Citrix XenDesktop

Strategies for Disaster Recovery

The move to virtualization bestows some revolutionary benefits. Affordable DR is one of them.

Is VMware the New Microsoft?

There's only one Microsoft. Or is there? Talk to enough third parties, analysts and customers, and you'll soon believe that VMware should be headquartered in Redmond instead of Palo Alto.

Server Virtualization Shootout

Whether consolidating servers or using computing resources more efficiently, server virtualization products come into their own.

Dell Simplifies Virtualization

The hardware giant's strategy may be straightforward, but that's just what some in IT need.

HP: Adapt or Die

The world's biggest hardware vendor offers comprehensive virtualization solutions.

By the Numbers: Server Virtualization's TCO

Yankee Group's survey offers hard evidence of cost and efficiency of virtualization efforts.

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