storage virtualisation
Social networking driving server sales
News Earlier this month Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced the company would be merging its server and storage teams into a converged system team, with the aim of putting a stronger focus on virtualisation. [04 Oct 2007]
Sun's Schwartz bets on storage
News The move, he wrote, would take advantage of Sun's existing "talent and assets" in its push into the ever-expanding storage market - a market set to be increasingly indistinguishable from the server world thanks to virtualisation. [03 Oct 2007]
VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation
News Ultimately, virtualisation will bring about a vision that server makers years ago presented - a dynamically adjusting, self-managing data center, Rosenblum said. Technology called virtualisation is transforming servers, higher-end systems that run... [14 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment Next, XenSource teams up with Symantec over storage virtualisation, F5 acquires Acopia Networks, and XenSource brings out XenEnterprise 4.0. Also, XenSource has signed an OEM agreement to embed the Veritas Storage Foundation storage management... [05 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: VMWare's IPO
Comment It was with a furrowed brow that I read some of the many hundreds of headlines over the last day or so about the floatation of virtualisation specialists VMWare. I was working on a video panel yesterday and the subject of virtualisation came up... [15 Aug 2007]
Ballmer drops services hints
News It requires Microsoft to have a new computational model, a new storage model, a new virtualisation model and more, Ballmer said. Microsoft has its head in the internet cloud. The software maker has been talking for some time about its plans to have... [11 Jul 2007]
Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings
Case Study The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running, and is half way through its five-year strategy, which combines server and storage virtualisation. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling... [05 Jul 2007]
Virtual server SAN connectivity: Why blade server virtualistaion and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity are rapidly becoming adopted
White Paper Server virtualisation is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server provisioning. The early generations of blades offered little synergy with virtualisation, but the convergence of blades and virtualisation is accelerating due to various factors... [06 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet We're talking about virtualisation in terms of the creation of a virtual version of something - such as server or storage device. Storage virtualisation is slightly different in that it pools data from multiple devices into what appears to be a... [04 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study The broadcaster has been working with virtualisation specialists Equalogic and VMWare to boost capacity, improve use of space and make its servers and data storage more flexible. Channel Five is revamping its IT infrastructure by embracing... [22 May 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network). [15 May 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News Microsoft said on Thursday it is pulling features out of the initial version of its 'Viridian' hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology. He added: "For a (version) 1.0 virtualisation offering to be missing critical features... [11 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study The virtualisation environment uses a combination of two EqualLogic PS300E storage arrays and virtualised servers using the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to store, amongst other things, the virtual laptops. [11 Apr 2007]
Virtualisation in the Data Centre
White Paper Virtualisation may drive up resource utilisation on individual servers, thus increasing the total return on those investments. Novell sees virtualisation as a tremendous opportunity for its data centre customers. [04 Apr 2007]
How Formula One takes tech to the extremes
News NCE recommended and installed a data virtualisation system, turning what France describes as "islands" of information into "continents". He added: "We were actually running into a spot of bother with our data storage and [data storage company] NCE... [14 Mar 2007]
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