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MicroAge Becomes a Virtual Iron Premier Partner

MicroAge has recently completed a series of certifications to become a Virtual Iron Premier Partner. Virtual Iron provides true server virtualization including intelligent virtual machine mobility, high availability, rapid recovery and performance load balancing. MicroAge

It's Getting Hot in Here (the Data Center)

Mounting storage needs have led to soaring energy consumption, just as an energy crisis is looming. Can IT become more efficient before all the juice is gone? Limited power resources are threatening to check that growth, leaving IT managers and CIOs pondering the best way to scale up without blacking out. Baseline

Race to Zero

Race to Zero aims to stump antivirus scanners A new contest to be held at this year's DefCon in Las Vegas in August hopes to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead, a move that one leading antivirus researcher says is "not a good idea." News.com

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An Integrated Multifunction Printer That Services Your Vertical Needs

With our customers in mind, Lexmark created vertical MFPs for the education, healthcare and legal industries. Each vertical MFP is based on a X646e monochrome laser MFP combined with a customized e-Task touchscreen interface with unique industry workflow solutions. Lexmark

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25 Ways to Cut IT Costs

Gartner says IT ‘industrialization’ is an opportunity to reduce IT costs and curtail wasteful spending. According to the analysts, wasteful IT spending is on the decline, but IT will still overspend by at least at 10 percent through 2010. Baseline

Numbers: Employees Find Ways to Skirt Enterprise Security

Enterprise users are "actively and intentionally" evading IT security controls and ignoring acceptable use policies, according to Palo Alto Networks' first annual "Application Usage and Risk Report." The report highlights applications (not generally supported by enterprise IT) that employees are actively using, as well as the major risks associated with their use. CSOonline

The 10 Most Important Technologies You Never Think About

You may not spend much time considering Unicode, XML, and digital signal processing, but you couldn't get through your day without them. Here, then, is a peek inside the magician's hat at ten technologies that are keys to our digital age. CIO

Sidetracked

Who Turned 30 This Month

See the junk email that started the worldwide spam revolution. What did it say? Yahoo! Tech