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Dell PowerEdge servers upgrade to AMD 16-core Opteron chips

Dell has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the recently-launched AMD 16-core Opteron processors.
Dell plans four CPU socket blade server designed for virtualised data centres

Dell on Monday announced a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualized environments.
Dell to launch PowerEdge microservers

Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditional servers, which use faster, but more power-hungry chips.
Dell introduces 96 core server

Dell on Monday introduced a server that can accommodate up to 96 CPU cores, a big boost in the computational power provided by its hardware.
Novell and Red Hat defeat Linux patent lawsuit

Two open source software companies successfully thwart a patent infringement case.
Novell to offer software appliance toolkit

The Novell Suse Appliance Toolkit enables enterprises and ISVs to package apps with an OS and database for a single VM image
Microsoft and Red Hat agree mutual support

Microsoft and Red Hat have agreed to support each other's virtualisation products in a move that indicates how import cross-platform support is expected to be within virtualised environments.
Apricot drops 'complex' Linux from netbook line

Earlier this month, Apricot Computers re-emerged from 11 years in the wildness, after announcing that it would enter the netbook market by selling its own offering, the Apricot Picobook Pro netbook.
IBM promises open source supercomputing code

IBM has marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source by introducing new software, upgrades to existing platforms, as well as an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing.
Microsoft ready to show virtualisation code

Microsoft has finished most of the major work on Hyper-V. The company has confirmed that it expects the virtualisation technology to be available for Windows Server 2008 on schedule in August.

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The life and death of a virtual machine

If IT managers aren?t careful, the failure to manage virtual machines throughout their life cycles could erase virtualisation?s benefits.
DIM sing - Dell, Intel and Microsoft sing a PC flash memory tune

Dell, Intel and Microsoft try to tie up flash memory use in PCs and notebooks with a new working group.
IBM's Handy on managing Linux

How does Big Blue support a vast product portfolio for Linux and open-source initiatives? IBM's Scott Handy explains.
SNW - Not disks and SANs

Here are the announcements that didn't concern disk drives and SANs.
Microsoft's Linux strategist Martin Taylor

One year into the job as Microsoft's Linux strategist, Martin Taylor spills the beans about his view of the open source world.

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