Stories about: MGM Mirage

Even in a town where almost nothing is smaller than huge, the joint US$8 billion-plus CityCenter venture between MGM Mirage and Dubai World has to be considered grandiose.

As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualization in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server virtualization market. Unfortunately, Microsoft has followed in VMware's footsteps by creating its own, proprietary way of doing things, and VMware doesn't want to play along. The result: IT faces a choice between two virtualization options that are incompatible.

Bernie Schumacher remembers the days before cell phones, laptops and handhelds enabled regular contact with the office even while vacationing. In fact, he was on a cruise during the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant meltdown in 1979, completely unaware of the crisis until his ship docked.

Despite advances in tiered storage technology, many IT managers say they have no idea of the value of their companies' data and can't manage it in any automated way.

With just over a month to go before Microsoft Corp.'s controversial licensing plan goes into effect, Linux developer Ximian Inc. is offering alternatives and incentives to get network executives to switch to open-source software.