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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering bespoke network virtualisation solutions and social media consultants on street corners holding up cardboard signs stating: "Will tweet for money. Answer: A shared love of... [06 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Server virtualisation, storage consolidation, upgrades to cooling systems and purchasing energy-efficient servers are all top priorities. These could include reconfiguring datacentre equipment to improve airflow and... [29 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Virtualisation for availability No stranger to Gartner's strategic lists, virtualisation - however, this time the analyst identifies live migration as a key technology for CIOs to have their eye on. As... [22 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Likewise, virtualisation and storage optimisation can lead to more efficient use of hardware. It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes to electricity-hungry IT infrastructure. And in the midst of a... [22 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News He said in a statement: "While we expect server capex to shrink yearly by eight per cent through 2013, following consolidation and the adoption of virtualisation, datacentre expenses are projected to remain around the... [19 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business processes, cloud-based platforms, web 2.0-enabled business process management, the wider use... [12 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News Langsdale's team has been testing Windows 7 using virtualisation technology from Citrix, which they found works well, and the team plans to use it for the wider roll out work. Airport operator BAA is hoping the roll out... [09 Oct 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News Clive Longbottom, analyst with Quocirca, predicts virtualisation will feature more prominently with Windows 8. He said: "With Citrix, VMware and Microsoft all looking at how to give the ultimate experience to the user,... [08 Oct 2009]
Jim Whitehurst
AS Profile Open source software continues to be hugely influential and Red Hat has continued to innovate over the past 12 months, launching the latest version of its Enterprise Linux 5.3 which includes an Open Java Development Kit along with... [29 Sep 2009]
IT 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]
