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Workshop We know that the majority of organisations that we survey have adopted server virtualisation to support their server consolidation activities, and are reaping benefits.

However, there is more to server virtualisation than simply supporting the consolidation of workloads onto a reduced set of servers. Moving beyond mere consolidation brings the potential of even greater advances – resource pooling, workload migration and high availability to name just a few. Underpinning the move to virtualisation is the hypervisor. Choosing one should be simple, or so you would have thought.

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It looks like the new Dual Core Atom N550 will be in more systems than just the manufacturers Intel mentioned previously on Monday.

Gigabyte’s newly refreshed convertible netbook, the T1005M, sports the 1.5GHz with 512KB of L2 cache, 2GB of DDR3 Ram, a USB 3.0 port, and optional HSDPA. Bits that have not changed are the usual 320GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data.Learn Morehard drive, WiFi 80211b/g/n, Bluetooth, 2x USB 2.0, Windows 7 Home Premium and a 10.1-inch capacitive multi-touch display running at 1366 x 768 pixels resolution.

The Gigabyte T1005M is already available in Australia. W

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Today in Oulu, Finland, Intel and Nokia launched the Joint Innovation Center, where the two companies will join forces to develop mobile technology focusing on user experience.

The latest branch of Intel’s European Research Network Intel Labs Europe, the lab–to be housed in the Center for Internet Excellence (seen on the right)–will employ about 24, and focus on the development of user interfaces for mobile devices.

According to the two companies, these new interfaces will use the MeeGo platform, another Intel/Nokia collaboration that joins Moblin Linux with Nokia’s Maemo. One of the first projects the lab will focus on are 3D interfaces and how virtual worlds can be used on mobile devices. “Our ne

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Hot Chips “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them,” said mathematician Alfred Lord Whitehead, in his 1911 tome, An Introduction to Mathematics. And with its Autonomic Computing effort, IBM believes it’s advancing civilization.

On Monday, in Palo Alto, California, IBM gave attendees at this year’s Hot Chips conference a deep dive into three of the latest developments in its nearly decade-long effort to create computers that dynamically self-optimize. “As good engineers we always put guardband in just to cover our tails,” Power7 EnergyScale architect Michael Floyd told his Hot Chips audience — somewhat less elegantly than Lord Whitehead, whose quote introduces Automatic computing on Big Blue’s website. H

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