New virtualization technology offerings and marketing promotions help Microsoft and partner Citrix kick off a 100-city tour to convince customers that flexibility in virtualization is the winning strategy.

A new series of Cisco's x86 servers said to provide double-digit performance gains will be formally announced in the coming weeks.

Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.

Red Hat extends its cloud computing technology to IBM. But what does it take to actually win a cloud deployment bid?

The classic brand is reborn as a super-dense, all-in-one x86 server with an integrated SAN, while larger siblings will sport more than 1,000 cores for virtualized environments.

Dell wants to help admins spend less time keeping x86 servers running. A new crop of Westmere-processor-based, self-healing machines are designed to be deployed and ignored.

Among the big news this week in green data center management: Equinix was granted LEED certification for its 2009 retrofit of its Silicon Valley SV2 International Business Exchange facility, Neuwing Energy Ventures announced it successfully registered the first voluntary Energy Efficiency Certificates in the newly launched APX North American Renewables Registry, and more.

A report from Broadpoint makes the argument that both chip makers will do better than expected because x86 server sales are poised to take off. No doubt IBM, HP and Dell are hoping that's the case.

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.