by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Deduplication, identity theft, and virtualization, oh my!

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Apr 6, 20071 min

Column roundup: Lots of good stuff out there this week: Mario Apicella takes on data management and suggests that deduplication technology could help with the looming problem of having too little space for storing all that data; Oliver Rist is impressed by Windows Meeting Space and its collaboration potential (check out the slideshow to see how you can set up Meeting Space for yourself); and Roger Grimes is ince

Column roundup: Lots of good stuff out there this week: Mario Apicella takes on data management and suggests that deduplication technology could help with the looming problem of having too little space for storing all that data; Oliver Rist is impressed by Windows Meeting Space and its collaboration potential (check out the slideshow to see how you can set up Meeting Space for yourself); and Roger Grimes is incensed by the way credit card and identity theft is handled by the vendors — with seemingly little concern, for the most part.

Tim Howes on managing virtualization: David Marshall over at the Virtualization Report blog sat down with Opsware CTO Tim Howes to discuss the challenges of managing virtual machines — and why automation is the best route to follow.

Friday funny: Ye Olde Tech Support… some things haven’t changed much…