Since it's not always easy for sales people to help customers imagine what an environment built around virtualization technologies would look like, VMware built one in an 18-wheeler and is sending it across North America.

A handful of vulnerabilities in Apache Web server get fixed, including one flaw that impacts only Windows systems.

Among the big news this week in green data center management: APC will demonstrate how to provide energy while addressing energy efficiency legislation; Altruent Systems announced it has completed a new energy efficient data center for one of its key clients; and Voonami is unveiling what it claims is the greenest in Utah.

New design guides and services are being aimed at service providers looking for faster and less-expensive ways to help enterprise customers build and manage both private and public cloud computing environments.

New CEO of Canonical shares some plans for the road ahead, including how it plans to grow Ubuntu's Linux server and consumer businesses, and the future of Ubuntu's branding.

Among this week's developments in green data center management: myriad federal and state tax credits are now available for Green IT projects related to data centers; the EPA is finalizing its Energy Star program for data centers; and Numara Software has a way to help you better green your data center.

After a year of spiraling toward the ground, server sales may be pulling out of the dive, with x86 servers leading the pack. Revenue continued to fall, yet it's still progress.

The cloud computing startup's AppLogic software helps companies build and deploy applications to public and private clouds.

In a presentation to financial analysts, Microsoft's head of server and tools, Bob Muglia, admits the Azure computing cloud initiative is still years from making a profit.

Increasingly, enterprises are making data center management choices that lead to an environmentally friendly company. Here are some recent green IT developments.

The business software makers are teaming up to give enterprise customers more flexibility to manage their virtual infrastructures on multiple operating systems.

IBM, once a lead backer of the Xen open source hypervisor, reveals that it's fully in the KVM camp now.

The new enterprise platform shows off enhanced virtualization, wireless and chip support.

Tukwila is formally dubbed Itanium 9300, and HP, Intel's partner in building the RISC processor, is first out of the gate with a series of systems. More will follow.

Who in the world would want to take on IBM, HP and Dell all at once? Cisco, the networking company, with its entry into the blades server business. So how is the company doing as we approach the end of year one?

The benchmarking standards group has added per-watt rating to how it measures server transactions.

With its acquisition of Sun having closed, Oracle is deciding what stays and what goes.

Ellison outlines Oracle's open source direction now that the Sun acquisition has closed.

What is Red Hat doing to further expand its JBoss middleware and developer tools?

With its troubles and foundries behind it, AMD seeks growth in areas Intel has been mining for years.