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April 3, 2006

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In This Edition

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1. News: LinuxWorld: Virtualization Bake-In Off and Running

2. Podcast: OnSecurity: eEye's Unofficial IE Patch

3. News: Microsoft Targets SMBs with Storage Deals

4. Q&A: VMware's Greene: OS-Based Virtualization Reduces Freedom

of Choice

5. Opinion: eWEEK Labs' Apple Birthday Bash

6. Sixth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Finalists

7. News: Big Storage Hits the Road

8. News: Microsoft to Make Virtual Server Free

9. News: Company Touts Low-Cost Facial Recognition

10. eSeminar: Streamling with SOAs

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News and Views

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1. News: LinuxWorld: Virtualization Bake-In Off and Running

Red Hat, Novell and a host of other Linux players are lining

up to add virtualization technology into the OS kernel, but

the reaction is mixed. Is open-source virtualization a threat

to VMware?

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2. Podcast: OnSecurity: eEye's Unofficial IE Patch

Ryan Naraine talks with eEye's chief hacking officer about

the company's decision to release an "unofficial" patch for

the latest zero-day exploit of Internet Explorer.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404496-0-0-0-1

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3. News: Microsoft Targets SMBs with Storage Deals

Microsoft is pushing Windows Storage Server 2003 Release 2

and related products through a range of OEM partnerships.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404499-0-0-0-1

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4. Q&A: VMware's Greene: OS-Based Virtualization Reduces Freedom

of Choice

Open source is important for virtualization expansion, but

the technology must be separate from the operating system,

says VMware's president.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404502-0-0-0-1

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5. Opinion: eWEEK Labs' Apple Birthday Bash

As the iPod-waving company turns 30, it still doesn't get

the enterprise.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404505-0-0-0-1

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6. Sixth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Finalists

The finalists in this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards program

show that innovation is alive and very well.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404508-0-0-0-1

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7. News: Big Storage Hits the Road

Large-scale storage vendors are launching new products targeting

remote office backup, data center flexibility and the need

for multipath storage management.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404511-0-0-0-1

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8. News: Microsoft to Make Virtual Server Free

MS plans to make its Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition

available as a free download, providing virtualization as

part of the operating system.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404514-0-0-0-1

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9. News: Company Touts Low-Cost Facial Recognition

Sensible Vision is pitching low-cost facial recognition tech

for enterprises looking to utilize two-factor security

authentication.

http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-3435-2-79-299975-404517-0-0-0-1

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10. eSeminar: Streamling with SOAs

Ziff Davis Media eSeminars invites you to join us on April 4

at 2 p.m. ET and find out how service-oriented architectures

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