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Microsoft: Windows Azure will outcompete Amazon Web Services on features, total cost – InfoWorld Despite unveiling prices for its upcoming Windows Azure cloud platform that appear merely on par with incumbent rivals such as Amazon, Microsoft Corp. says Azure will…

Citrix offering free Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V – InfoWorld Citrix Systems is using the stage at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to highlight its latest free virtualization offering: Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Express Edition. The free virtualization…

Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?- CNN Wissner-Gross estimates every second someone spends browsing a simple web site generates roughly 20 milligrams of C02. Whether downloading a song, sending an email or streaming a video, almost…

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…