virtualisation
French Hospital Simplifies Workload Management for IT Team With Virtualisation Software
White Paper The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Rennes is one of France's biggest and most prestigious teaching hospitals. To maintain its reputation for modern patient-centric services, the hospital needed to relocate its IT... [14 Aug 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News As desktop virtualisation becomes more widespread, the power of the device becomes less important and tablets might become more widespread in business, provided you can put up with the smudgy screen," he said. [13 Aug 2009]
Virtualisation: Get the contract right
Comment Virtualisation promises many business benefits - but only if you structure the agreement correctly. Virtualisation offers enhanced ways to use redundant processing power but because of the inherent... [12 Aug 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - How it will look on your desktop, part 2
Photo Windows 7's wi-fi management has greatly improved, with wi-fi virtualisation for turning your built-in wi-fi card into a virtual router for other devices and computers. With Windows 7 now released to manufacture,... [10 Aug 2009]
Windows 7's XP Mode: It's almost ready
News These relate to the virtualisation aspects of running XP in Windows 7. Microsoft has announced XP Mode, the Windows 7 add-on that will allow users with the proper hardware to run a virtual version of Windows XP within... [05 Aug 2009]
Ubuntu-using small businesses get a helping hand with helpdesk support
News The Professional version also aids the user in setting up desktop virtualisation, and offers its subscribers quicker access to support personnel, Canonical said. Canonical has launched support services for individual and... [04 Aug 2009]
Managed Hosting in Europe: A Review of the Managed Hosting Market and Suppliers in Europe
White Paper In the past this has usually been on the basis of hardware servers dedicated to individual customers, however the increasing use of virtualisation has allowed managed hosting providers to reduce costs by sharing... [01 Aug 2009]
UAE Authority Cuts IT Costs by an Estimated 60 Per Cent With Virtualisation Tool
White Paper In 2008, it virtualised several physical servers using the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with Hyper-V virtualisation technology. The Securities and Commodities Authority is a government agency that... [27 Jul 2009]
U.K. Building Society Cuts Power Consumption by 75 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers
White Paper By deploying the Windows Server 2008 operating system with its integrated Hyper-V virtualisation technology, Britannia Building Society has shown how virtualization - as well as providing a software testing environment -... [25 Jul 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News As IT outsourcing becomes a top priority for many cash-strapped organisations, giant suppliers are reaping the benefits, potentially forcing smaller providers to offer services such as cloud and virtualisation in order... [14 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News Common technology platforms to allow applications to be shared across departments, including virtual desktops, remote working technologies, server virtualisation, duplex printers and automated PC shutdown software, could... [29 Jun 2009]
Businesses lift the lid on virtualisation rollouts
News Businesses are increasingly working with various forms of virtualisation technology to cut costs, improve energy efficiency and simplify the management of their applications and IT services.... [24 Jun 2009]
NHLM Virtualisation
White Paper This Intel whitepaper examines how server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data centre productivity in fundamental ways. It shows how you can consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server,... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: Intel's experimental tech unveiled
Photo The design could route around failed cores and be partitioned into independent groups of cores, an idea that Intel believes will be useful for virtualisation and security reasons. Intel Labs researchers demonstrated some... [22 Jun 2009]
BT virtually moves to the cloud
News VDC involves the virtualisation of servers, storage, networks and security delivered to customers via an online portal as cloud-based services. BT is about to formally launch a virtualised infrastructure service called... [19 Jun 2009]