Small blades fail virtualisation project
18 June, 2009 by Angus Kidman
While undertaking a consolidation project, financial services company Veda Advantage found that blade servers could not provide the security levels that policy demanded.
New Dell SAN ships virtualisation-ready
17 June, 2009 by Simon Sharwood
Dell's new PS4000 SAN will support apps virtualised under vSphere, Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
Mainframes still relevant to data centre
15 June, 2009 by Joe Clabby
The mainframe still has a place in the data centre - particularly when you supplement it with virtualisation technologies.
Next-gen enterprise network platform
11 June, 2009
Nortel has introduced the Virtual Services Platform (VSP) 9000, the next-generation enterprise system for mission-critical core networks and data centres. The platform aids companies to realise the benefits of emerging virtualisation technologies that require reliability and flexibility.
Four rules for thin provisioning
11 June, 2009 by Alan Radding
This list of best practices explains how to get the most out of thin provisioning.
Cloud-based security services
11 June, 2009
Zscaler provides risk mitigation and policy enforcement for businesses through its in-the-cloud utility service. Users do not need to purchase, deploy or manage multiple point products.
Cloud monitor and enterprise analytics
11 June, 2009
RightNow has added cloud monitor and enterprise analytics to its on demand CRM system, RightNow May ’09. The Cloud Monitor tracks external conversations about products, services and brands, as they occur on the social web. It tracks both Twitter and YouTube; and support for other social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn is planned for the future. RightNow Enterprise Analytics provides deep analysis on the internal data collected through direct customer interactions.
Blade servers and virtualisation
10 June, 2009 by Todd Erickson
The latest storage blades to appear could prove to be a boon for fans of virtualisation.
Data centre virtualisation not all roses
05 June, 2009 by Michael Morisy
Although virtualising your data centre has undeniable plusses, it does add management difficulties, among other things.
Start cloud-preparation by looking at the network
04 June, 2009 by Shamus McGillicuddy
The first step in the adoption of cloud-computing should be an analysis and reconfiguration of your LAN and WAN.
Operating system to build cloud
02 June, 2009
VMware has introduced VMware vSphere 4, an operating system for building the internal cloud. The architectural enhancements enable business-critical, transaction-heavy applications, such as SAP and Exchange, together with their SQL and Oracle databases, to be run on a 100% virtualised internal cloud powered by VMware vSphere 4.
Tiered storage system
02 June, 2009
The EMC Virtual Matrix architecture integrates industry-standard components with EMC Symmetrix capabilities to deliver a system that is claimed to provide scalability to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage and tens of millions of IOPS (input/output per second), supporting hundreds of thousands of VMware and other virtual machines in a single federated storage infrastructure.
Virtual desktop deployment easier in Windows Server 2008 R2
29 May, 2009 by Greg Shields
The latest revision of Microsoft's Terminal Services has made it easier to manage virtual desktops.
VMware's vNetwork Distributed Switch explained
27 May, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
Learn all about VMware's vNetwork Distributed Switch and what it can do for your network in this article.
Oracle won't support its products on virtualisation platforms
27 May, 2009 by Barb Darrow and Alex Barrett
If you were holding out for Oracle to offer support for your favourite virtualisation platform, you're about to be disappointed.
