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Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation

whitepaper This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications.

Tags: nas, file, virtualisation, optimisation

[16 May 2008]

SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology

whitepaper This Sun whitepapers looks at how many companies are turning to consolidation and virtualisation to improve resource utilisation and enhance business agility. Today IT managers face the task of administering a complex storage and computing...

Tags: server consolidation, resource, continue, consolidation

[16 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment Open source is everywhere - in routers, in switches, in storage arrays, as the base of all commercial virtualisation software. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers again: this time, the issue of open source.

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

A Guide to Virtualising Your Information Infrastructure

whitepaper Today, Virtualisation is at the top of every IT shop's "must-have" lists as CIOs and data center managers look to tackle challenges such as system growth, complex servers and storage, power availability, increases in cost and other related issues...

Tags: storage management, tco, service levels, lists

[25 Apr 2008]

Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?

News Providers use virtualisation extensively and grid computing software. Microsoft and Google are also rumored to be developing pay-per-drink computing services, such as hosted server processing and storage.

Tags: datacentre, cloud, providers, hosting

[11 Mar 2008]

Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted

News Companies are also looking to invest heavily in virtualisation, storage area networks and VoIP. Tech spending in the UK is likely to increase at a quicker rate than inflation over the next twelve months - despite an uncertain economic climate.

Tags: spending, vista, recession, virtualisation

[10 Mar 2008]

Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?

News Using this the calculator recommends the best way to achieve savings ranging from consolidating equipment such as buying more efficient servers, lighting and cooling systems to process optimisation such as energy efficient services, minimising...

Tags: green, accenture, data centre, savings

[30 Jan 2008]

Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy

News And last year, Citrix paid $500m for XenSource, a virtualisation software provider. Schwartz also outlined a number of areas of technical integration designed to optimise MySQL's flagship database - as well as MySQL's Falcon storage engine - on Sun...

[16 Jan 2008]

Disaster Recovery Is Expensive

whitepaper The bank implemented a virtualisation software solution to enable it to manage multiple storage volumes across its SAN. A commercial bank was required to implement offsite replication of its data in order to comply with FSA and SEC regulations.

Tags: disaster recovery, disaster recovery, array, bank

[25 Nov 2007]

Improve your response time and data availability with EqualLogic

whitepaper Channel Five has combined EqualLogic's virtual storage with server virtualisation from VMware to improve server deployment, data availability and business continuity throughout the company's IT infrastructure.

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualisation, storage server, continuity

[21 Nov 2007]

Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource

News This includes supporting virtualisation technology and creating an IT architecture to support the DTC's software apps and help the company improve supply chain efficiency. DTC is aiming to move to the new virtualised infrastructure by August 2008...

Tags: virtualisation, unisys, outsourcing, contract

[20 Nov 2007]

Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor

News Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while hypervisors refer specifically to a thin layer that runs on a server and allows multiple OSes to run on the same hardware, handling functions such as memory...

Tags: hypervisor, virtualisation, microsoft, cnet news

[13 Nov 2007]

Dell goes shopping for storage solution

News Leading the iSCSI revolution will help Dell accelerate IT simplification and virtualisation. Dell has announced plans to acquire EqualLogic in a $1.4bn cash deal, as the computer maker seeks to broaden its reach by bolstering its data storage...

Tags: dell, data, storage, cnet news

[06 Nov 2007]

How to Survive as an MSSP

whitepaper Virtualisation technologies, coupled with improvements in processor performance, and reductions in memory and storage costs, reduce "Per customer costs" at an exponential level that favours the larger providers.

Tags: isps, providers, processor, countries

[24 Oct 2007]

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.

Tags: social networking, sun, server, data centre

[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.

Tags: virtualisation, storage, sun

[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...

Tags: vmware, server, virtualisation

[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...

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[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...

Tags: virtualisation, vmware

[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...

Tags: cloud, services, ballmer, microsoft

[11 Jul 2007]

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