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The five best and worst features of Google Chrome OS

The best open source OS ever? Hardly

Beware cloud computing's hidden costs

Find the true costs before moving to the cloud

Test and development in the cloud

Private clouds a good fit for test and development

Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

Only 2% of enterprises have built a true private cloud, says Forrester

NetApp, VMware light up new green data centres

Lean, virtual data centres reduce carbon and save billions

VMware CTO tasked with developing virtual desktop vision

Virtualisation vendor returns focus to desktop

Client-side virtualisation goes bare metal

Bare-metal hypervisors for client systems show great promise for the enterprise

Will free Citrix upgrades boost virtual desktops?

Citrix's improvements focus on end users

How Microsoft smothers desktop virtualisation

How to sabotage a technology before it gets off the ground

Is vSphere enough to allay cloud fears?

Security concerns don't quite go away

Cost could hit client virtualisation drive

Saves money... but not yet

Broker warns of VMware slowdown

Highlights areas of concern.

Understanding data virtualisation and optimisation

Pulling in data from multiple sources.

Is email a perfect cloud application?

From command line to local PC to Gmail

Cisco data centre guru on IPv6, virtualisation and strategy

John McCool on everything from market shifts to computing paradigms and service integration

Five lessons from a data centre's crisis of capacity

Hard lessons in disaster recover

The life and death of a virtual machine

Set a lifespan for virtual machines, just as you would for a physical server

Virtual desktops: five popular flavours, explained

The pros and cons of various desktop virtualisation systems

How to virtualise databases more efficiently

Making sure that code is handled properly

How clouds and fibre has remade the data centre

The data centre has become one big internal cloud

Bare metal hypervisors: Multiple virtual machines on one desktop

Desktops, laptops and smartphones run independent from the OS

The seven deadly myths about virtualisation

Why virtualising the enterprise is not a panacea

How client computing can benefit from virtualisation

It's not just for the data centre

Time to look at apps within virtualised systems

Taking an application-centric approach

XenServer 5.0 offers host of new features

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