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• Yahoo7 CTO Paul Russell on the media giant's stack overhaul

  ​In the highly competitive online news industry, readers are unforgiving of sluggish sites, poor user experience and dated features.

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella releases the bots in Sydney

  ​Despite becoming the CEO of the world’s third biggest company in 2014, there was still one ambition Microsoft chief Satya Nadella had left unrealised.

• True utility computing coming soon: Vic Winkler

  True utility computing – where virtual machines are moved between competing service providers without an organisation's knowledge – is coming soon, according to Vic Winkler, CTO at data security provider Covata.
  

• In Pictures: How to protect virtual machines (VMs)

  These four products represent different approaches to VM security

• University of Queensland to roll out shared server virtualisation

  The University of Queensland (UQ) will soon deploy centralised server virtualisation services for its faculties and institutes in a university-wide project aimed at cutting IT costs and streamlining application delivery to 40,000 students and 7000 staff.
  

• Is converged infrastructure the future of the datacentre?

  If the term 'converged infrastructure' (also called integrated systems or unified computing) sounds like a mix of grid, Cloud, utility, on-demand and shared computing services, you're right. However, this complexity doesn't seem to bother customers, especially small and midsize enterprises. But will this trend continue?

• Oracle set to merge Java virtual machines

  Oracle's plan to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM is still evolving, but a single JVM based on both technologies is expected in 18 months to two years, an Oracle official said during a Webcast this week.

• LANdesk widens view of company assets

  Nearly half of businesses have had kit stolen by employees, according to survey by LANdesk. Forty-four percent of employees admit to having taken kit or intellectual property when leaving a company - with mobile phones topping the list of the most half-inched items.

• Step 2: Virtual Server Consolidation

  OK, you've virtualized as much as you can. Now what? Consolidating physical servers through virtualization doesn't address underlying complexities because it doesn't reduce the total number of servers you're managing. Here are three tips for taking it to the next level.