SoftwareMicrosoft System Center gets cross-platform support

Microsoft has released beta technologies that enable its System Center software to manage servers running operating systems other than Windows.

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SoftwareSiggraph: Pixar animation software to get boost on Windows supercomputers

At Siggraph 2008, Pixar Animation Studios said an upgrade of its RenderMan animation software will run on Microsoft's HPC Server 2008 operating system and 64-bit Windows Vista.

SoftwareIs Google your next data center?

Lower costs, snap upgrades and other benefits of cloud computing are leading IT organizations to increasingly outsource traditional IT infrastructure activities like storage and server management to managed services providers. How will this alter the makeup of the IT department of the future? Computerworld looks ahead.