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REVIEW: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Is a Good Choice for Cash-Strapped Organizations

Citrix's no-cost XenServer 5.5 stacks up well compared with VMware's freely available ESXi; adding the $2,750-per-server Enterprise edition or the $5,500 Platinum edition bumps...

Cisco to Lay Off Up to 700 Workers, More Layoffs to Come

Not even highly successful IT companies with plenty of cash in the bank are immune from layoffs during this down economy.Cisco Systems, the world's...

A Switch from VMware Is a Tough Sell

When I reviewed VMware vSphere 4 in June, I gave it an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice. I clearly think the platform, formerly called VMware...

Startup Claims Storage of 2 Million ‘Tweets’ Per Day

It is now possible to back up information you have saved in cloud services-such as e-mail and Twitter dispatches-in the cloud itself.BackupMy.net, a year-old...

Acronis Unveils Free Online Storage ROI Calculator

People who watch the numbers in corporate offices will go for this: A data center manager now can utilize a free online service to...

SenSage Pushes Cloud-Based Event Data Warehouse

SenSage is now taking its event data warehouse concept to the cloud. With SenSage 4.5, the company has decided to target cloud-based computing environments...

Google Engineering Director Leaves for VMware

According to published reports, Mark Lucovsky, an engineering director at Google, has left the search giant for a new position at VMware.Despite having been...

Rackspace Releases New Public API for Cloud Development

Cloud services provider Rackspace on July 14 released the public beta of a new API for software developers interested in better and more direct...

IBM Finally Upgrades Its XIV Storage System

A full 18 months after IBM plunked down $300 million in January 2008 to buy relatively unknown XIV and its large-scale storage systems, Big...

Dell Plans to Move Deeper into Data Center

Dell is going to continue moving away from its PC roots and deeper into bigger-and higher-margin-areas, particularly services and the data centers of large...