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  • HP, IBM and Dell launch servers with Intel Xeon 5600 chips

    Users will be able to throw more workloads to maintain higher server utilisation rates.That should help consolidate servers, especially in data centres, where virtualisation drives high server utilisation rates, McCarron said.The reduction of…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Utilisation • Rates • Power Consumption • Data Centres • Blade

  • IBM shows new server architecture at CeBIT

    Companies have managed to consolidate x86 servers in virtualised environments, but the hardware utilisation rates have suffered as processor and memory components are locked together. IBM announced new System x and BladeCenter servers, which are…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Reducing • Locked • Energy • Data Centres • Boost

  • Intel to launch Jasper Forest storage chips

    The chip is expected to consolidate storage management workloads, such as data deduplication, data snap shots, virtualisation and any basic storage management requirements.Arun Taneja, founder of storage market research firm Taneja Group, said…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Raid • Functions • Failure • Embedded • Controller

  • Obama budget cuts data centres, hits tech sector

    President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal, released Monday, flattens federal IT spending and orders federal departments to consolidate and centralise IT operations. President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal, released Monday, flattens…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Platforms • House • Agencies • Cio • Administration • Pressure

  • Symantec buys Gideon Technologies, Trustwave buys BitArmor

    Symantec buys Gideon Technologies, Trustwave buys BitArmor Ellen Messmer Security vendors consolidate news Symantec announced it has acquired Gideon Technologies. Separately, Trustwave announced it bought BitArmor.
    13 January 2010
    Tags: Assessment • Acquired • Encryption • Expertise • Symantec • Gideon

  • Facebook tool to publish posts on Twitter

    The critics contended that the changes would push more user data onto the Internet and, in some cases, make it harder for Facebook users to protect their privacy.The new Facebook settings consolidate some privacy options and group them in a single…
    16 December 2009
    Tags: Social Networking • Cases • Privacy • Twitter • Facebook Users

Latest Features

  • Four tips to avoid server failure in virtualisation projects

    Already, the team has been able to consolidate 250 servers - 50% of the server farm - onto 12 physical hosts. As virtualisation stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Workload • Ratio • Demands • Deeper • Consolidation

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    Sourcing specialistSoftware-as-a-service, cloud computing, managed services, outsourcing and offshoring offer companies alternatives to hiring internal staff, and savvy IT managers will educated themselves on the various sourcing options to help…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Seek • Network World • Cycle • Contracts • Assurance

  • Cisco's John McCool shares data centre vision

    So they may be ones that had multiple data centres in different divisions or different functions and look at this as a way to emulate those multiple data centres, but consolidate them virtually.There have been more of those, also, than we suspected.
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Adapter • Footprint • Architectures • Centers • Context • Marketplace

  • Guide to SAN and NAS virtualisation

    Clustered storage systems are ideally suited for high performance applications and to consolidate multiple file servers into a single, high-availability system. As a standard feature in all but the most modest mid-tier storage systems, storage…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Requests • Split • Provisioning • Storage Systems • Agents • Hosts

  • Wireless sensors drive green data centres

    Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centres and install virtualisation software are taking a big bite out of the number of power hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data.
    26 October 2009
    Tags: Data Center • Metrics • Places • Boost • Manufacturer • Consolidate

  • NetApp, VMware light up new green data centres

    Prior to building the new facility, NetApp's engineering data centres were scattered randomly around various office buildings, and the company is in the process of shutting down many of those little IT operations.For engineering, our goal is to…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Savings • Dollars • Efficiency • Air • Data Centres • Facility

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  • Five reasons to embrace Intel Xeon 5600 processors

    That means that you can consolidate fifteen servers down to one physical machine - reducing the hardware costs and minimising the need for maintenance and administration.3. Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Optimised • Heat • Evolution • Energy • Array

  • How to manage multivendor virtualisation

    Brooks wouldn't specify which vendors' hypervisors Dell is using.We had so many different processes to manage in our physical environments, we really want to consolidate that down to build up same velocity in how we manage, deliver and monitor in…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Infrastructures • Hypervisor • Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Server Virtualisation

  • How to set up virtualisation for small businesses

    But even without these fancy features, they can make a big difference in the small business's IT budget.Simply by moving your servers into virtual machines, you make them easy to copy, move, and consolidate on shared hardware.
    13 March 2009
    Tags: Small Businesses • Active Directory • Small Business • Microsoft Exchange • Exchange Server • Virtual Machines

  • How to virtualise SQL Server

    This has been understandable in the past but VMware environments are now more robust and should be able to handle SQL Server.It's worth taking the plunge; there are some very good reasons to move some of your SQL servers onto a virtual…
    09 March 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Utilisation • Mapping • Scsi • Sql Server • Raw

  • Readers' favourite free network tools

    But it uses those, and other protocols, to discover and consolidate information on network devices. From sniffing to mapping and monitoring, these ten utilities perform surprisingly sophisticated tasks.
    02 June 2008
    Tags: Evaluate • Utilities • Remote Access • Producing • Statistics • Network Management

  • Case Study: UTM's weakness: a single point of failure

    That seemingly simple task, however, was becoming a problem, "We were compiling logs from a number of different (security) appliances and had to consolidate. Checkfree was able to consolidate 20 IDS devices, 20 switches and 26 firewalls onto seven…
    25 March 2008
    Tags: Collect • Cio • South • Handles • Debate • Sounds

Reviews

  • Acronis True Image Home 2010

    The online backup is file based, not image based, and is intended to back up your data, not whole partitions, which would generally require far too much space.Other new features of interest to the techier users among us are the ability to…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Image • Location • Backups • Attached • Incremental • Partition

  • SANs tuned for virtualisation

    Whether you're using virtualisation to make large applications more manageable or to consolidate many small applications, a server with lots of RAM, lots of processor cores, and lots of I/O is a good thing.
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Vm • Virtual Machines • Inexpensive • Consolidate • Snapshot

  • Canon EOS 500D camera

    With My Menu, you can choose the half dozen menu items that you use the most, and consolidate them in one place, making them quick and easy to access.The Canon EOS 500D, also known as the Canon EOS Rebel T1i, is a 15.1Mp SLR camera.Canon EOS 500D…
    02 July 2009
    Tags: Menus • Iso • Frames • Exposure • Eye • Lcd

  • Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Wd20eads review

    Such a high ceiling on capacity means that we no longer need to make choices about where we're storing my data; instead, we can better organise and consolidate my data across multiple subjects. The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS hard…
    03 February 2009
    Tags: Power Consumption • Archive • Tricks • Hard Disk • Business Advisor

  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3

    By moving systems off dedicated, under-utilised servers, and using virtual machines to consolidate them on fewer boxes, you can reduce power, cooling, and space requirements, and you can save a bundle in hardware costs.
    21 December 2006
    Tags: Clicking • Conversion • High Availability • Destination • Balancing • Suffer

  • VMware GSX Server 3

    Developers wanting to test their applications and medium-sized companies looking to consolidate server hardware. GSX Server version 3 enables multiple OSes - not just Windows - in multiple partitions to be run concurrently on x86 hosts.
    20 April 2004
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Enhanced • Scsi • Scalable • Guest • Hosts

White Papers

  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT event correlation and analysis

    This whitepaper covers mature and emerging products that help IT organisations to: consolidate, analyze, and respond to component-level IT infrastructure events; improve their event-to-incident/problem resolution process; and achieve better…
    04 February 2010
    Tags: Management Tools • Invest • Event Management • Events • Analysis

  • Protecting data in the context of enterprise infrastructure consolidation and data growth

    Today, enterprises are caught between the continued growth in the amount of data they create, store, and depend on and the need to consolidate IT resources to reduce costs and create a more "green" IT environment.
    23 November 2009
    Tags: Footprint • Consolidation • Growth • Balance • Consolidate • Context

  • Enabling the Virtual Data Centre

    Virtualisation has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. This white paper describes a virtualised infrastructure that applies…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Achieve • Data Center • Administrators • Server Virtualisation • Storage Virtualisation

  • Its a wonderful, WANderful world with WAN optimisation

    This is surprising as in the current economic climate businesses looking to reduce costs can do so by deploying WAN optimisation technology to consolidate their IT infrastructure and streamline business processes.By partnering technology with…
    10 July 2009
    Tags: Flow • Bandwidth • Cent • Wan Optimisation

  • 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation and Virtualisation

    The reasons to consolidate and virtualise IT infrastructure are wide-ranging. While mostIT managers focus on just the cost of the physical IT infrastructure, there are manyadditional benefits that can be derived from IT consolidation.
    11 May 2009
    Tags: Physical • Implementing • Consolidation • Ensuring • Consolidate • Ranging

  • Business case for adopting HP integrity server blades in the data centre

    Hosting a range of applications from core infrastructure to multi-tiered enterprise applications, Blade architecture allows businesses to not only consolidate their applications through virtualisation but also enhance IT business agility that…
    30 March 2009
    Tags: Enhance • Blades • Blade • Data Centres • Data Centre

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