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Virtualization is taking enterprise companies by storm, and ill-prepared IT managers might find themselves struggling against a proliferation of virtual machines (VM), increased configuration complexity and other management issues that come with widely deploying virtual servers.

Open source is making its way into more and more enterprises with cheap, robust alternatives to solutions offered by proprietary software vendors. Read this article to learn about eight open-source companies worth watching in the areas of Web search, server virtualization, data integration, collaboration software and e-mail.

Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it will acquire Opsware is a good move for the company which, as yet, hasn't made significant inroads in the data center automation space, analysts said.

After a delayed closing of its US$4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive, Hewlett-Packard quickly got to work publicly restructuring the company to support its now doubled software division.

The research organizations at Hewlett-Packard and SAP will work together to resolve IT issues faced by their joint customers, notably around virtualization.

For the past couple of years, HP has been snapping up software companies, but its plans to acquire application management specialist Mercury Interactive should give the systems vendor the boost it needs to convince customers and the industry that it is serious about software, analysts say.

HP this week is set to share details on its plans for integrating Peregrine Systems' technology into its OpenView management software portfolio and to unveil its strategy for delivering a configuration management database that the company says will help customers collect data from myriad sources.

HP and systems management software vendor, Altiris, have strengthened their long-standing partnership with the release of two co-developed client management software bundles.

From the corporate boardroom to the enterprise data center, the 50 men and women on this list exercise power within the network industry to one degree or another. Some have the clout to sway the world's technology decisions, while others command attention within vertical industries, particular market segments or simply -- though not inconsequentially -- within their own organizational domains. We have ranked each of our 2004 power-brokers based on such stature, as well as on the person's visibility and the ways in which the person functions as a role model. To see how these 50 fit together, we've aligned them by category as well, from the titans to the standards-setters.

Hewlett-Packard is replacing its HP/UX utility data center (UDC) service with a business automation module for OpenView, which it says will let companies be more flexible. OpenView Automation Manager will dynamically allocate pooled IT resources as needs change.

Not expecting a rush of IT spending during the last three months of 2004, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said Thursday that IT buyers have become smarter and more discriminating in their IT purchasing than they were just five years ago, and that they now realize that technology spending can sometimes be a "bad thing."