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Could server management headaches lead to higher adoption of managed hosted services?

VKernel offers free alternative to VMware capacity planning product; Cisco-EMC team-up makes cloud accessible
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Could server management headaches lead to higher adoption of managed hosted services?

Rackspace commissioned survey shows that many companies struggle to manage their in-house servers and could consider managed hosting, cloud computing and e-mail hosting alternatives in the coming years. Read full story

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