According to analyst firm Burton Group, Oracle's prices and support policies aren't suitable for users of virtualisation,

A product refresh means EMC's latest batch of Celerra models will include deduplication and VMware plugins.

Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Andrew Butterworth as the Managing Director of its Australian operations. [ + ]

Michael Boustridge will lead BT’s Asia Pacific operations. [ + ]

A Telstra veteran of 18 years, Maria Simpson has been appointed National Manager of the Telstra Foundation. [ + ]

Tricky network security issues demanded that Red Bee Media give each employee four separate desktop machines. But desktop virtualisation has changed all that.

Michael Lehmann is Cisco's new Partner Operations Director for Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

Telstra’s Chief Operations Officer, Greg Winn, has left the company to return to his home in the United States. [ + ]

At IDC's Virtualization Forum, users reported that support issues have slowed down their deployments.

Auckland University has automated the backup of its virtual environments, resulting in a DR window of 2 hours.

According to Melbourne IT, which recently undertook a cloud-computing beta, users need more education on cloud and virtual technologies.

This article explains what problems you may face when implementing application and desktop virtualisation - and how to avoid them.

Although Hyper-V may cost less on paper, VMware's ESXi can sometimes prove a cheaper alternative - depending on the specifics of your implementation.

Lisencing costs mean that although desktop virtualisation can improve security and ease management, it won't save you any money.

This article explains how to create a business continuity plan for Microsoft's Hyper-V.