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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Zahl Limbuwala, chair of the British Computer Society datacentre specialist group says some of the coolness towards virtualisation is down to the economic downturn making any new IT projects harder to execute. [20 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Project Sydney, which will allow users to connect up their own datacentre environment with services that are running with Windows Azure, is expected to launch next year. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure... [18 Nov 2009]
Customer Case Study:Â A L Filters
White Paper Switching to virtualization with a consolidated and simplified datacentre environment can help pull IT back to the heart of the business - powering growth, not hindering it. Companies undergoing rapid expansion can all... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. The second floor of the datacentre is home to a more traditional server room consisting of racks of servers with cool air coming up from a raised floor. [04 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News The alternative is to simply extend your hardware refresh cycle to five years, or whenever it is ascertained the business needs of your users aren't being met.and in the datacentre Research group Forrester claims that 55... [29 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News Work on building the tech infrastructure will begin in the New Year - starting with the datacentre and software to power the website where people will be able to volunteer to help at the Games, set to go live in July 2010. [27 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Reshaping the datacentre Rather than building a datacentre designed to cope with a business' growth in 20 years, enterprises would be better off adopting a pod-based approach - design the site to support... [22 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News IDC said if the overall datacentre power bills are reduced to a per-server basis, this means €623 was spent to operate an average server 24 hours per day in Europe in 2008, compared to €585 in 2007 and €562 in 2006. [19 Oct 2009]
Installation and deployment methods for Windows Server 2008
White Paper When installing a new system like Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn), many datacentre managers want to know what technologies and best practices are available to make the process foolproof. So what are the deployment methods... [15 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Who would have thought five years ago that cell phones would have 2MB data network connections for use by special mobile applications or that datacentre capacity would be available "on demand" over the internet and paid... [12 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Computer giant IBM opened the doors to a datacentre showcasing the latest in green technology last month. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic... [02 Oct 2009]
Transport Organisation Achieves 99 Per Cent Availability With Refreshed Datacentre From Dell
White Paper Nexus wanted to deliver higher application availability to improve business continuity. In addition, it wanted to simplify system management, freeing up staff for more strategic work. Nexus worked with Dell consultants to design and... [02 Oct 2009]
Leading Medical Publisher Cuts Costs by 25% With Virtualized Datacentres
White Paper Leading medical publisher Thieme wanted to optimise its datacentre to cope with continued business growth. But the company wanted to introduce an e-business platform to appeal to a greater number of customers. [02 Oct 2009]
Dell Case Study: Time to Deliver
White Paper The new datacentre and recovery site consisted of virtualized Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell/ EMC storage, backed with ProSupport Enterprise Wide Contract. Neopress, a division of the French Postal Service, had just one... [02 Oct 2009]
Padmasree Warrior
AS Profile Cisco's Unified Computing strategy is highly disruptive to existing datacentre players like IBM and HP, while its Connected Urban Development initiative takes a technology-enabled approach to the requirements of a... [29 Sep 2009]
