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VMworld, the world's largest virtualization event, offered a variety of technical events, birds-of-a-feather sessions, press conferences, and perhaps the biggest IT party ever. VMworld's fifth year is one to remember.

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The famous Unix admin utility known as Top has many imitators. We take a look at some of the top Top tools.