Table of Contents

Introduction

Enabling business flexibility: Agility breeds success

Enabling technologies

Rise of the machines

SOA and the adaptive data center

Virtualization drives advances in storage management

SOA's 6 burning questions

Lessons from the field

EBay's computing guru gives behind-the-scenes peek

Virtualization tames the storage beast for a veterinary school

Buffalo: The land of chicken wings, snowstorms - and grid computing?

United Airlines works storage smarter, not harder

Tips, trends and opinions

Opinion: The role of IT in driving agility

How to avoid bumps on the road to grid computing

Server virtualization goes mainstream

File-area networking's early adopters

Complex event processing: still on the launch pad

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