Cloud operating system
22 April, 2009
Industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud has been unveiled.
HP launches BladeSystem Matrix to rival Cisco's Unified Computing
21 April, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
To combat Cisco's recently announced virtualisation platform, HP has revealed it's own blade server based system
Virtual security appliances emerge
20 April, 2009 by Colin Steele
Vendors are beginning to offer virtual security appliances and software packages.
Cisco's Unified Computing faces stiff opposition from virtualisation incumbents
20 April, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
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.
Cloud-based storage
16 April, 2009
Atmos, a cloud computing-based infrastructure offering, is now available.
Desktop virtualisation
16 April, 2009
VMware View 3 allows organisations to ‘decouple’ a desktop from specific physical devices.
Virtualisation optimisation
16 April, 2009
VirtualDirector is an optimisation solution for virtualised environments. It provides adaptive and dynamic allocation of resources based on business events.
Server optimisation
16 April, 2009
Sun Systems for MySQL is intended to help enterprise customers deploying MySQL-based web infrastructure on Sun servers.
SaaS portfolio
16 April, 2009
Applications Net is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application store, providing software and telephony services via a single portal for small and medium businesses.
Web app optimisation
16 April, 2009
NetScaler 9, a solution for improving the efficiency and TCO of web-based applications running in the data centre, is now available.
Top ten tools for managing virtual environments
25 March, 2009 by Rick Vanover
We walk you through the ten most promising tools for managing virtual environments.
Twittering with Salesforce CRM extends into real-time conversations
25 March, 2009
Salesforce CRM for Twitter enables companies to search, monitor and join relevant Twitter micro-conversations directly in the cloud.
Private clouds vs. virtual servers
25 March, 2009 by Christina Torode
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
23 March, 2009 by Andrew McCreath
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
18 March, 2009 by Simon Elisha
There are some myths surrounding storage virtualisation that are thrown around quite often. Simon Elisha from Hitachi sets the record straight.
