Microsoft targets virtualization with Windows 8/Windows Server combo

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	Microsoft targets virtualization with Windows 8/Windows Server combo Much of the attention being paid to this week's Windows 8 launch focuses on the new Metro-style interface and the fact that Microsoft is extending its desktop OS to tablets and smartphones. But for enterprises, the real story is the way Microsoft has integrated Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an unmatched system for running virtualized environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now In this Issue Gartner: Cisco CEO John Chambers talks HP, tech complexity and patent trolls Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses Windows 8's natural user interface (NUI) Cisco study finds clouds moving in Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware 10 awesome new additions in Office 2013 Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 The Windows 8 FAQ RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Gartner: Cisco CEO John Chambers talks HP, tech complexity and patent trolls ORLANDO -- Cisco CEO John Chambers sat down with Gartner analysts for a wide-ranging and interesting interview at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo today. The upbeat CEO chatted about everything from the company's greatest challenges in his 17 years at the helm to how he views the completion and many other topics. MORE GARTNER NEWS: Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 Here's a look at... Read More Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses Windows 8's natural user interface (NUI) Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses Windows 8's natural user interface (NUI) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lent his celebrity status to endorse the company's latest operating system Windows 8, which goes on sale Friday. From: networkworld Views: 12 0 ratings Time: 01:15 More in Science & Technology Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Cisco study finds clouds moving in Global cloud traffic will grow sixfold between 2011 and 2016 while global data center traffic will quadruple in that time. That's just one of the findings in Cisco's second annual Global Cloud Index, an estimate of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic growth and trends. Read More Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware Microsoft has made a point of advertising the performance enhancements and optimizations being made to Windows 8. Although Windows 7 was well received and typically offered better performance and stability than its much-maligned predecessor, Windows Vista, Microsoft had some loftier goals in mind for the jump to Windows 8. Read More 10 awesome new additions in Office 2013 Read More Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like cloud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year. Read More The Windows 8 FAQ Windows 8 launches Friday, and even if you haven't been paying attention it's still not too late to catch up on the essentials of what's new and significant about the operating system. Read More
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