Top Story - Gartner: Server Virtualization Now at 18 percent of Server Workload

18 percent of server workloads this year run on virtualized servers; that share will grow to 28 percent next year and reach almost half by 2012.

Top Story - Server Markets: Falling But Stable

According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Forecast, customer spending in the worldwide server market is expected to decline 29.6 percent to $10.6 billion (about Rs. 14800 crore) in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09).

Whitepaper - Comparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization

Intel IT shows better performance and lower costs running virtual servers on quad-core architecture. View the results of Intel IT testing of select multi-core processors and their potential role in Intel's data center server virtualization strategy.

Whitepaper - Forrester: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008

Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team answered 220 inquiries on data centers, servers, and virtual appliances in 2008, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization. If you are considering or are in the process of implementing this study could make all the difference by showing you which questions you too should be asking.

Case Study - Server Consolidation Results in Cost Savings for Indian Rayon

CIO 100 Winner: This ingenious CIO of Indian Rayon, the second largest producer of viscose filament yarn (VFY) in India pulled off a neat yet tricky cost cutting measure, even going against the advice of industry experts.

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Top Story - Biztalk Server 2009 Ready for the Public

Microsoft said the 2009 version of BizTalk server is now available to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be publicly available on Friday. The upgraded server features integration with three of the latest releases that are key to the Microsoft platform: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

Whitepaper - Server Virtualization for Small and Medium-sized Businesses

This solution brief demonstrates how integrating StoreVault technologies in a virtual infrastructure can solve the unique challenges in¬herent with ESX deployments in the areas of storage utilization and management, data protection, and backups. This brief explains how simplifying your hardware and server applications with virtualization software provides key improvements to your IT environment. It also provides a simple overview of how to achieve these benefits of virtualization with a StoreVault.

Whitepaper - Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V On Dell Servers

Get the facts on Hyper-V virtualization, discuss the architecture and technologies, and receive guidance on best practices for deployment of Dell PowerEdge servers loaded with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Top Story - Gartner: Unix Server Sales Continue Downward Spiral

Server shipments increased in the fourth quarter of 2009, but revenue fell as x86 servers continued to bite into the declining market for Unix servers with RISC and Itanium chips, Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday.

Article - How to Protect Your Virtual Server

As virtual machines proliferate, IT has to watch where they park their backups so that they don't bog down network performance or send licensing costs skyrocketing. They also have to be clear on what to consider when choosing a back-up technology and the options that are available in virtual server back-up.