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As technological advances have led the global marketplace into an information-driven world, the need for IT professionals to manage and organize their data has become exponentially more important. In this issue, we have focused on IT containment issues to better utilize the resources already found in your data center. John Waters focuses on the virtualization trend and its increasing popularity as found in the newly created partnership between VMware and Intel. Meanwhile, Dave Sass features a beneficial Infrastructure Health Check Service to clearly analyze and quantify IT resources. In Industry Trends, learn how the Italian State Finance Ministry consolidated their environment to lower TCO and improve performance. Diane Hage gives an overall approach to managing the optimization of technology to meet the business needs and demands. In our Tech Tip, Britton McGinn highlights informative tactics to help IT managers minimize their administration time while consolidating their Intel servers. And, Mark Waldrep describes the changes to the IBM Austin Executive Briefing Center to further enhance individualized educational briefings.
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