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• Apple's Holiday Headache Apple fans weren't so jolly when the iTunes servers went down on Christmas morning -- and stayed down for several days.
• Microsoft Offers Push E-mail With New SMB Servers Microsoft's new SMB servers will automatically push e-mail to Windows Mobile phones.
• Energy Star for Servers Coming in February, EPA Says The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is one step closer to setting power efficiency ratings for servers.
• Powering Down Servers Is a Calculated Risk Vendors cite minimal risk to shutting down servers, yet some companies practice it to save energy.
• The Missing Piece of the Virtualization Puzzle If storage is the last thing you consider in a virtualization deployment, it could be the first thing to go wrong.
• IBM's 'Baby' Mainframe Aimed at Linux Customers New z10 equivalent to 232 x86 servers.
• Anonymous Proxy Servers: Necessary or Evil? Some security experts believe anonymous proxy servers are only necessary if you're up to no good, while others see them as a legitimate tool for research, pen testing and the like. Who's right?
• Microsoft Tells Plan for BizTalk The road map for the newly renamed BizTalk Server 2009 includes regular major updates, starting next year.
• What Servers and Your Clothes Dryer Have in Common Running server technology at 208V is a step toward energy efficiency and increased ROI.
• HADR Brings Resiliency to Virtualization We examine five products that marry high availability and disaster recovery to your virtual server environment.
• Going Green at the U.S. Open IBM servers cut energy use while supporting higher traffic at USOpen.org.
• Growing Cynicism Around Going Green Is it a case of vendor hype meets customer resistance?
• Hyper-V Helps Revamp Disaster Recovery Munder Capital Management used Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology and Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and slash cooling costs. Here's a look inside their plans and decisions.
• Intel's Nehalem Chips Looking at Long Rollout At IDF, chipmaker says Nehalem server chips will be launched over four to five quarters.
• Unappreciated New VMware Feature Boosts Compatibility The feature may help to reduce hardware headaches.
• The Life and Death of a Virtual Machine If IT managers aren’t careful, the failure to manage virtual machines throughout their life cycles could erase virtualization’s benefits.
• BlueArc Titan 3200 a Giant Among NAS Systems The Titan justifies a stiff price tag with stellar performance, top-notch scalability, advanced storage management features, and a smooth admin GUI.
• 'Time Bomb' Snafu Hobbles VMware Users CEO offers apology as emergency patch is sent to users of virtual servers.
• VMware CEO Apologizes for 'Time Bomb' Mess Issues patch so enterprises can power up virtual machines.
• VMware ESX Bug Causes Outage A bug in the enterprise virtualization software prevents VMware ESX 3.5 U2 customers from starting new virtual machines, beginning today.
• Five Steps to Safer Virtual Servers Virtualization security guru Chris Whitener of Hewlett-Packard shares his field-tested advice on how to secure virtual servers. Consider these five tips as you evaluate your enterprise's virtualization security.
• Winn-Dixie Turns IT, Once a Liability, into an Asset A better system emerges in the wake of a painful bankruptcy.
• DNS Flaw Threatens Security of Small ISPs The industry's slow patching of a known DNS flaw puts small ISPs at greatest risk of online fraud, researchers say.
• IT Tool Saves Time and Money for The Gap ID management tools help system administrators simplify user access to Unix, Linux systems. Part 2 of 5.
• RIM Warns BlackBerry Admins of BES Security Flaw A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) PDF rendering component could enable hackers to hijack associated infrastructure, RIM says.