A full year of shows at CSTechcast.com, and here's another for the IT pro. This week the topic is VM sprawl and how to control it with guest David Lynch, VP of Marketing at Embotics. In the news, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India bring up the question of stability for IT companies in the region, spammers get their mojo back despite the shutdown of spam hoster McColo, a seemingly ignored Microsoft patch is seeing exploits in the wild, new Lenovo laptops can foil thieves with a text message, and IBM announces consulting services in for cloud computing. The Blu-ray consortium's seeming ignorance of it's real competition gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the upcoming service pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and find out how to extend your play time beyond 60 days with the evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Mumbai terrorist attacks don't deter technology companies (InfoWorld)
Spam spikes again weeks after McColo shutdown (InfoWorld)
Microsoft warns of new Windows attacks (InfoWorld)
Lenovo service disables laptops with text message (ComputerWorld)
IBM to offer cloud computing services for enterprises (ComputerWorld)
Why You Probably Won't Find Amazing Sony Deals for Christmas (Gizmodo)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=52

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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