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VMware Tweaks Load Balancing In vSphere 4 – Information Week The Distributed Resource Scheduler in vSphere 4 monitors virtual machine usage across a server cluster to see whether the virtual machine is loaded on the server that best meets its…

Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system – CNET The move also gives new fuel to the Netbook movement for low-cost, network-enabled computers. Those machines today run Windows or Linux. Google Chrome OS provides a new option that hearkens back to…

Scotland lures ‘green’ computer centres – Financial Times Close to the small town of Lockerbie, the development would use local wind farms, a biomass plant and heat transferfrom the data centre to provide renewable energy for more than 700 homes….

Cloud interoperability remains wispy, but progress being made – Network World The group will let individual vendors demonstrate interoperability between two clouds and document methodologies to ensure that interoperability, according to Staten. The group thus tackles interoperability on a case-by-case…

Targeting Azure Storage – Virtual Studio Magazine Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the Azure Services Platform simplify uploading blobs to scalable, replicated storage in virtual server clusters at Microsoft data centers. Azure blobs offer a…

Optimizing for Virtualization, Part 2 – AnandTech By consolidating previously separate storage systems into a single array, servicing multiple VM’s, we notice a change in access patterns. Because of queueing systems on all levels (guest, ESX and the array itself),…