How best to approach server virtualization

All the week's news about data center technology, 08/23/05
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Network World's Data Center News Alert

How best to approach server virtualization, 08/22/05

IT execs and industry experts share advice on how best to
approach server virtualization.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5704>

On-demand services bring high-powered computing to the
mainstream, 08/22/05

On-demand services, a new data center promise, bring
high-powered computing to the mainstream.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5705>

Management must adapt to IP-based applications, 08/22/05

As companies adopt more IP-based applications, management
technologies must get smarter.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5706>

Automated management, SIM provide savings for restaurant,
08/22/05

Bill Randall, director of MIS infrastructure at restaurant chain
Red Robin, dishes up the scoop on automated management.
<http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2005/ndc5/082205-sim.html?nl>

Oracle/IBM battle beyond the database, 08/22/05

No longer satisfied with its role as the corporate database
leader, Oracle has been building out its middleware portfolio
through R&D and acquisitions and is increasingly going
head-to-head with IBM.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082205-oracle-ibm.html?nl>

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Cisco preparing management play
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5707>

2. VoIP security threats: Fact or fiction?
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews3843>

3. Questions surround smartphone security
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5708>

4. CLECs play a new tune
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5709>

5. Google goes berserk
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5710>

Today's most-forwarded story:

Cisco preparing management play
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5711>
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