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Vendors tout tools to take on virtual environments Optimizing performance and availability across virtual servers is bound to challenge enterprise IT managers broadening their deployments from staging to production environments. Vendors are looking to tap into IT executives' need to put in place tight controls and augment manual efforts with search, security, management and automation capabilities that can handle numerous virtual machines while also ensuring the health of their physical hosts. Read on for details about the latest virtualization tools, and check back often. We'll be adding to the slide show as more vendors unveil virtualization wares.