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Guidelines for virtualising storage infrastructure
These four tips explain how to virtualise your storage infrastructure in the best possible way.
[ + ]A whole new virtual world for US agency
A US government agency recently implemented a tiered storage project involving 75 servers, 14 TB of data and virtualisation.
[ + ]Virtual environments demand new approaches to security
Recent converts to VMware say they have had to change the way they approach security, in order to cope with their new virtual environments.
[ + ]In EMC's RapidIO, "everything is virtualised"
We explain EMC's RapidIO, a bus standard that the company says will be responsible for carrying data in its new storage arrays.
[ + ]New VMware API allows third parties into the hypervisor
The virtualisation giant's VMsafe API will allow third party security vendors to apply security policies within the hypervisor itself.
[ + ]HP launches BladeSystem Matrix to rival Cisco's Unified Computing
To combat Cisco's recently announced virtualisation platform, HP has revealed it's own blade server based system
[ + ]Cisco's Unified Computing faces stiff opposition from virtualisation incumbents
Cisco's new platform is claimed to ease typical virtualisation pressure points. But analysts and users alike wonder if the company can challenge existing vendors' offerings.
[ + ]Private clouds vs. virtual servers
Analyst Mark Bowker explains what a private cloud is, and what makes it different from the garden variety virtual server.
[ + ]The impact of virtualisation on storage and backup
Glasshouse Technologies' Andrew McCreath explains how server virtualisation changes how you must approach backup and storage design.
[ + ]Five assumptions about storage virtualisation - and why they're wrong
There are some myths surrounding storage virtualisation that are thrown around quite often. Simon Elisha from Hitachi sets the record straight.
[ + ]Cisco's UCS explained
Writer Shamus McGillicuddy explains just what all the fuss surrounding Cisco's new platform is about,
[ + ]Case study: supermarket chooses XenServer over VMware
According to the director of a large UK supermarket chain, XenServer was almost half the cost to deploy compared to the equivalent VMware system.
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