virtualisation
RSS virtualisationIT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use
News He said that even if more energy efficient servers or energy management tools were available, datacentre and IT managers are far more interested in internal projects like consolidation, rationalisation and virtualisation. [25 Sep 2009]
Intel: How chip maker is tackling the changing datacentre
News But Maloney pointed out that each of these datacentre types have common requirements - performance, energy efficiency and virtualisation. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, chip business chief Sean Maloney... [23 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News The era in which virtualisation directly affects ordinary people, not just those responsible for corporate datacentres, is on its way. At VMworld, CTO Stephen Herrod and Srinivas Krishnamurti, director of emerging... [04 Sep 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Nick Heath talks to Johnson about budgets, datacentres and virtualisation Now, thanks to virtualisation, the company has boosted processor utilisation rates beyond the 20 per cent it was getting... [04 Sep 2009]
Cisco and EMC planning to partner up and go after large datacentres
News Cisco also owns a stake in virtualisation software company VMware, which operates as a unit of EMC. Networking giant Cisco Systems and storage area networking company EMC may be teaming up to form a new joint venture to... [04 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News Over a period of time we think that once there's enough virtualisation-enabled phones, this could solve the developer program," Krishnamurti says. VMware is in the early stages of embedding its technology in a range of... [03 Sep 2009]
Oracle celebrates 11g's second birthday with database overhaul
News Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is heavily focused on consolidating hardware and virtualisation, according to Mark Townsend, vice president of database product management at the software company. Oracle said on Tuesday... [02 Sep 2009]
Battery life: Windows 7 leaves Vista for dust
News The event was designed to outline the joint work that the two halves of Wintel have been doing to make Windows 7 perform better in areas such as virtualisation, power management, and performance. Upgrading a newer... [02 Sep 2009]
Bank of Shanghai Reforms Its Core Banking System With HP Superdome Servers, HP XP Storage, HP Virtualisation Solutions and T24 Core Banking Solution
White Paper Bank of Shanghai is one of the most dynamic and influential banks in China. According to The Banker's 2004 Top 1,000 world banks listing, Bank of Shanghai is also among the biggest in the world. It needed to overhaul the legacy IT... [01 Sep 2009]
Glenorchy City Council Makes "Ideas Happen" With HP Server-Storage Virtualisation Solution
White Paper GCC issued a Storage Proposal request to all major vendors, determined the capability offered by today's virtualisation solution and there was a six-month evaluation to determine optimum storage solution. [28 Aug 2009]
HP Helps Stramit Build Business Advantage
White Paper To gain extra flexibility, capacity and performance, and achieve a scalable solution that would permit quick and easy future expansion, Stramit decided to move from a five-year legacy physical infrastructure to a more cost-effective... [28 Aug 2009]
Eye Hospital Reduces Energy Costs by £10,000 a Year With Virtualised Servers
White Paper By deploying the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V virtualisation technology, new applications can be deployed in a matter of days. The IT department at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is... [28 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment Analyst house Gartner seems to have all of this covered with its definition of cloud computing: 'the convergence of three trends: service orientation, virtualisation and standardisation of computing through the internet'. [20 Aug 2009]
Last chance to get Windows 7 release candidate for free
News It's a good option for those who have a spare machine to try out the software or for Mac users looking to experiment with running Windows either in virtualisation software or via Boot Camp. While Microsoft's Windows 7... [19 Aug 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment To be fair, we have seen a lot of enthusiasm for virtualisation in recent years that suggests 'common sense' plays a part when looking to create energy efficiency. IT is becoming ever more closely linked with... [19 Aug 2009]
