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Integrating Virtual Machines Into the Cisco Data Center Architecture

whitepaper Presently, the enterprise data center hardware and software platforms are being consolidated and standardized to provide improved resource utilization and management. As a result, the data center, servers, and network devices must be considered as...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Backing Up VMware

whitepaper If virtual machines are important in the environment, this webcast is useful which demonstrates how to overcome one of the key challenges of managing virtual machines: backing them up. The webcast will cover - data protection for VMware; how...

Tags: back-up

[11 May 2008]

Advanced Virtualization Benefits of Windows Server 2008 Editions for the Enterprise

whitepaper Server virtualization, which enables multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to run concurrently on the same physical server, has become a broadly accepted method to meet these requirements. By converting underutilized physical servers into virtual...

Tags: windows server 2008

[11 May 2008]

Remote Install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM X3 Servers

whitepaper Secondly, there are known challenges in getting Red Hat Linux installed on these machines in a remote or "Lights out" environment, so the intent is to provide pointers to make this process go more smoothly.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Design and Implementation With Cisco Catalyst 6500 Service Modules: Overview

whitepaper Although load balancing and firewalling can be deployed individually, these two technologies are often deployed together, especially in multi-tier server farms with multiple tiers of a given application running on separate machines.

Tags: load balancing

[11 May 2008]

Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity

whitepaper Using a Microsoft virtualization solution, IT staffers deployed these applications as virtual machines in a host clustering environment, increasing reliability through automated failover. Based in Zagreb, Raiffeisenbank Austria (RBA) strives to...

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualization, automated, host

[11 May 2008]

Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology

whitepaper The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to build a powerful database environment to support 24/7 operations and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server solution, which distributes workload across...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

BMC Software IT Systems Management Express: Meeting Challenges in the Midsize Enterprise

whitepaper It also examines the benefits associated with using a BMC Software solution to simplify managing support for thousands of users and their machines. Midsize organizations face even greater challenges in managing end-user support than large enterprises.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges

whitepaper It shows how a multi-tier datacenter workload that required tens (to hundreds) of platforms in the past can potentially map on to one (or a few) single-socket tera-scale CMP platforms running Virtual Machines (VMs) and thereby creating Datacenter...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide

whitepaper In their most basic implementation, HA clusters consist of two server machines (referred to as "nodes") that "share" common storage. This paper describes how to design and deploy High Availability (HA) clusters to provide uninterrupted access to...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network of volunteer data gatherers.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News Machines used by the army, navy and RAF will be given password-protected encryption using BeCrypt Disk Protect Baseline solution. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software.

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment This all seems part of a wider pattern, where the publicity machines of the likes of the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) pump out comments that suggest the civilised world is about to end unless ever more draconian legislation is passed...

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed

News The software maker said it is releasing XP Service Pack 3 for web downloads, and resuming automatic updates to Vista Service Pack 1, after developing a filter that will prevent machines running Dynamics RMS from getting either update.

Tags: windows, microsoft, xp, vista

[07 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as-yet-unlinked-to fast-flux sites, or injecting malicious iFrame tags into legitimate websites, which would download malware onto users' machines, warned Symantec.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers

whitepaper The Containers feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System enables each server to handle the workload of up to 10 older machines. PlanetOut Inc.is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And...

Tags: sun solaris

[06 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up In practice, they are more like XP machines that come with an already paid-for upgrade to Vista when and if the customer chooses to do so. The way it works is thus: by taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper As evidenced by the proliferation of phishing attacks and keystroke loggers, everyone knows that human beings are not well-equipped to make trust decisions about when to use their passwords or other personal credentials.

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that cyber crime could be almost as big as the value of the global illegal drug trade - no one...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. The new line-up of business chips will include AMD Athlon and AMD Phenom processors for desktop machines.

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

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