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    Microsoft shifts policy Lifts 90-day restriction on moving apps from one virtual server to another.

    Microsoft shifts policy

    Lifts 90-day restriction on moving apps from one virtual server to another.

  • VMWARE BUG

    CEO: Sorry! Paul Maritz vows that he'll get to the bottom of the server-access snafu.

    CEO: Sorry!

    Paul Maritz vows that he'll get to the bottom of the server-access snafu.

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    Virtualization performance

    Neterion’s Ravi Chalaka discusses how to solve the I/O performance problem.

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  • Kudos to storage rating service

    Blogger Robin Harris, of StorageMojo.com, gives a nod to Wikibon for developing an independent energy-efficiency rating service for storage products. Storage would use the service, called ConserveIT, as a way to show their products qualify for energy rebates offered by utilities such as PG&E, an early Wikibon supporter, Harris reports. According to the posting, 3PAR, Compellent, DataDirect Networks, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Nexsan and Xiotech already have signed on for Wikibon.

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  • The little guys like the clouds

    For software entrepreneurs, cost-savings and other benefits of cloud computing are getting hard to ignore. As an example, Mass High Tech reports on how three young companies, Good Data, Pixily and TownConnect, are taking advantage of cloud computing services from Amazon and the like. In the article, Pixily CEO Prasad Thammineni says the company has saved about 80% of the cost of a data center and a $100,000 server investment by buying cloud-based compute power and storage.

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  • How Lucasfilm does IT

    In an interview with GRIDtoday, Kevin Clark, director of IT operations for Lucasfilm, gives a glimpse of how the company – and its Industrial Light and Magic and LucasArts divisions -- takes advantage of next-generation IT technology. Grid computing, high-end storage, virtualization … these are just a few of the advanced technologies Lucasfilm uses to keep its rendering and other processes flowing, Clark says in the Q&A.

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  • Q&A: HDS CTO on storage strategy

    In a Byte and Switch interview, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida discusses the company’s data storage strategy, including the ins and outs of its recent teaming with Data Islandia, of Iceland. For example, Yoshida cites the attractiveness of Data Islandia’s use of geothermal and hyrdo-electric power, and its “data scooter” modular storage box.

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