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[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] PC Blade Daily: PC Blades Save Power, Pigs, and Carbon “Fortunately, the technologies that many businesses are already using to increase process speeds, encourage efficiency, and reduce server sprawl are the same technologies that lower power consumption as well.” SearchServerVirtualization: VMware exec dishes on product direction “”˜Between CPU, memory and I/O virtualization, in three years’ time, we should be able to eliminate the performance overhead, so that virtual equals native.’” (via virtualization.info) Data Center Central: A 10-Gig Boost to the Ethernet “There’s also the fact, as mentioned in a blog a few days ago, that virtualization and multicore technology are creating a bottleneck in the I/O portion of the network ”” an issue which 10 GbE can address nicely.” InfoWorld Virtualization Report: Linux Kernel Gains a new VMware Option “The 2.6.21 kernel update will allow paravirtualized operating systems such as Linux to modify itself for faster...

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