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• Linux adoption driven by Netbook demand
  No bloatware required.
• Intel consults lawyers over AMD's spinoff plans
  End of the road for cross-licensing deal?
• IBM's Power 570 gets 5GHz superchip
  When the going gets tough, the tough get Unix.
• NGD builds UK's first data fortress
  Welsh centre goes rack to the future.
• Hard up AMD hives off chip making
  From fabulous to fabless.
• IT industry will buck downturn, say analysts
  The future is meaner, greener and more virtual.
• Significant rise in hosting services predicted
  Letting others take the hosting strain.
• Another Microsoft u-turn on XP
  Customers just don't want Vista.

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• Virtualisation and security - the risks explored
  While server virtualisation increases operational efficiencies and management flexibility, and reduces total cost of ownership, it can also increase security risks. Here's an explanation of how.
• Don't listen to the doom-sayers on Vista
  To listen to some of the research companies, Vista has been an almighty flop with few saving graces. But,we've been here before and we shouldn't write Vista off just yet.
• Linux set to make mobile splash?
  Android has raised the profile, and iPhone has raised the stakes. The world is ready for mobile Linux.

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• Check-list for the economic green datacentre
  How can you deliver economic benefits in an environmentally sound manner, while addressing power and cooling issues in the datacentre?
• How to improve your datacentre operations
  Hardware, software and networks are more reliable than ever, but electrical and mechanical infrastructure improvements lag, so that operator errors, electrical and mechanical single points of failure, design problems, and construction defects are leading causes of datacentre disruptions.
• How to keep virtual test environments in check
  Using virtualisation for testing reduces costs and saves money, but environments need to be managed or they can run amuck.

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• The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management New
  

  This white paper explores the drivers for demand and capacity management; the benefits and ROI; and the challenges businesses face in making it work.
  

• Preparing for the Storm: Effective Data Backup and Recovery New
  

  This white paper was written for IT professionals looking to increase the strategic value of IT as they implement a cost-effective and appropriately sized backup and recovery platform that can support business growth.
  

• Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service New
  

  Rapid data growth and the need for greater data availability place a demand on organisations to provide an effective backup and recovery service. Yet businesses have often been satisfied with just minimal provision. It is only when a disaster arrives that it becomes clear how inadequate this approach is. This white paper helps organisations make the right decisions about how best to prevent data loss and potentially catastrophic IT failure.

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• 5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
  Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents.
• EPEAT's progress
  EPEAT has stronger support from the US government and HP has just announced a raft of EPEAT-registered kits.
• Vista SP1 Release Candidate targets performance, reliability, security
  The just-released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC), like the previous beta, does more to improve the internal plumbing of Windows Vista than it does to make any major changes to the interface.

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• Microsoft Hyper-V RC1
  With Hyper-V finally launched, it's time to have a look at how it stacks up against the VMware, the clear market leader. The result? While there's still some distance to go, VMware should start getting worried.
• Aagon Client Management Platform
  A nicely-designed client manager for Windows-based PCs, with central monitoring and a good GUI, and which should scale well, thanks to being based on a proper DBMS.
• Windows Vista SP1
  Microsoft is getting set to deliver the final bits of what has become an increasingly controversial patch cycle. Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which went 'gold' a few weeks back, was finally made available via Windows Update yesterday.
• Windows Server 2008
  It's been a long time coming but Windows Server 2008 has finally seen the light. Our reviewers have found the product comes with an impressive range of new features - the improved security a definite plus - even if there are some glaring gaps.
• Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1
  We found file copying to be much slower than under XP or pre-SP1 Vista, Microsoft insists that there are security as well as performance enhancements in Vista Service Pack 1. You also won't be reduced to minimal functionality if Microsoft's activation system suffers from glitches.

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• Microsoft's open-source whizz under dual attack
  Being the director for open-source technology at Microsoft must be a job that's on par with sweeping up in no-man's land. Sam Ramji is under attack from an open-source community for whom Microsoft is the Great Satan and within his own company, with its long-standing suspicion of Linux. But Ramj doesn't seem fazed by his balancing act.
• The next big move in chip manufacturing
  The time for change has come, says Joe Draina, associate director of International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative, in this interview with the Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service.
• Every silver lining has a cloud
  What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor - is no news, bad news?

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• A pair of green-IT users
  Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials
• Servers go front and centre
  General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is thinking small.

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