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IBM hopes to upend industry standard server ROI equation

IBM introduced a new class of industry standard servers that it hopes will widen its market share lead and put rivals like HP and Dell on defence. Read more »

Top 10 new features in Exchange Server 2010

You'll find some significant additions to the latest version of Exchange Server. This article runs down some of the most notable new features. Read more »

Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 vs. VMware's vSphere: A feature comparison

VMware and Microsoft are ramping up their virtualisation games with relatively new releases. Scott Lowe compares and contrasts some of the major features in vSphere and Hyper-V R2. Read more »

How to protect yourself from RAID-related Unrecoverable Read Errors

Seeing an Unrecoverable Read Error (URE) during a RAID rebuild can ruin your entire day. Scott Lowe talks about UREs and how you can avoid falling victim to this silent threat. Read more »

Making the choice between virtual and physical servers

"Virtualise everything" is a popular MO in IT these days, but there are times when physical servers make more sense. Read more »

A good server naming convention eases IT workload

Frisky? DC1? Bozo? Pluto? ESX1? These are all server names. Which ones make the most sense? This article talks about server naming. Read more »

A snapshot of Aleri and its CEP offerings

The author recently spoke with two VPs from Aleri, a software maker to perform Complex Event Processing (CEP). Learn how CEP differs from data warehouses. Read more »

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Backstage tour at Tech.Ed

ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference. Read more »

The pros and cons of using Twitter as a server notification tool

Twitter is breaking out of its "look at me" shackles and has real business value. This article suggests using Twitter for server notifications. Read more »

It's time to consider alternatives to RDBMS

For at least the last 20 years, developers have been trying to figure out how to make the relational database work better for our needs. When do we start trying something entirely different? Read more »

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