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• NBN the best biz opp for Macquarie Telecom Hosting

  The hosting division of ASX-listed Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ) has singled out the National Broadband Network (NBN) as its biggest business opportunity over the next few years.

• Intel at a crossroads with Itanium

  Intel this week reaffirmed its commitment to developing the Itanium processor, but also said it wants to grab market share with Xeon server chips in high-performance computing, where Itanium also plays.

• Cisco's data center deluge

  Cisco this week rolled out a range of data center product enhancements and extensions, including new Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers; Nexus 2000 fabric extenders; MDS 9000 series SAN switches; and an appliance that incorporates its Nexus 1000 virtual switch.

• Microsoft previews Exchange 2010 SP1

  In a recent blog entry, Microsoft offered a glimpse of what will be in the first major update of Exchange Server 2010, due later this year.

• Server vendors focus on memory in Nehalem-EX servers

  Orthodox server designs are receiving a face-lift with Intel's Nehalem-EX processor, with vendors implementing new memory features to boost application performance.

• Intel's Nehalem-EX aims for high-performance computing

  Intel on Tuesday announced eight-core Nehalem-EX chips, which the company said provide performance jumps that could bring critical infrastructure computing to mainstream servers.

• HP, Dell and Acer on board with new AMD server processors

  AMD has announced new eight and 12-core x86 server processors that are set to challenge the "second wave" of server requirements from enterprises.

• Acer among first to sell AMD's newest Opteron server chip

  Acer will be among the first major computer vendors to sell systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' latest Opteron server chips, the 6100 series, the chip company said Monday

• Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

  Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.

• Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

  Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.

• Minimize server-consolidation mistakes

  Joe Latrell, IT manager and lead programmer for GetMyHomesValue.com, a real estate data services company in Lancaster, Pa., knows that it's all too easy for even a knowledgeable and experienced IT veteran to make mistakes while managing a complex server-consolidation project. "You have to think about everything," he says. "It can be a minefield."

• NAB shares insights on building cool data centres

  Ditch your regular servers for blades, consider tri-generation cooling and assess carbon costs over the long term. These are some of the recommendations that will be discussed by NAB’s data centre platform specialist, Glenn Allan, at CeBit’s upcoming <i> Future-Proofing Your Data Centre</i> conference in Sydney.

• Cisco CEO says public and private clouds are what networking is all about

  In this installment of IDG Enterprise's "CEO Interview Series," Cisco CEO John Chambers talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Scot Finnie and InfoWorld.com Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about where Cisco sees cloud computing going.

• Fujitsu aims new server at cloud compute providers

  Fujitsu is rolling out a new server designed specially for cloud computing providers.

• HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips

  Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.