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  • Tighten up virtual server security says Gartner

    The company said that while the underlying physical structure hadn't changed, there was an additional risk through the use of hypervisor software . According to Gartner, enterprises are failing to acknowledge that additional risk and should look to…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Virtualised • Projects • Processes • Physical • Hypervisor • Gartner

  • Parallels to support Google Chrome OS on Mac

    Parallels also claims Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac is up to 300 per cent faster for virtual machine operations than the previous version 4.0.Last month, Parallels introduced Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, extending Parallels server…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Operating Systems • Metal • Macs • Edition • Cent • Automation

  • EMC: Flash could spell end for Fibre Channel

    We love that because hard problems are where we can make money and [virtualization] is causing problems.EMC owns VMware, maker of the most popular x86 hypervisor. Fibre Channel storage could be a thing of the past in just a few years as enterprises…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Tier • Ssd • Fibre Channel • Executives • Disk Drives • Automated

  • Parallels enhances virtualisation for Apple servers

    Parallels has boosted its Apple virtualisation offering Parallels has enhanced its bare metal offerings by launching its bare metal hypervisor for Apple XServe.The company launched its bare metal hypervisor for other operating systems last autumn…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Parallels • Metal • Mac Os • Hypervisor • Apple Xserve

  • CloudSwitch moves virtual apps to Amazon cloud

    A basic version is free, while an enterprise version including support and management of up to 20 virtual machines in the cloud starts at $25,000 a year.Although CloudSwitch initially works only with Amazon EC2, Rubin says she plans to expand…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Vice President • Trial • Migration • Encrypted

  • EMC, Intel, VMware jointly support cloud security

    The proof of concept will be used by service providers to help customers build private clouds within their firewalls, or cloud-like services that are hosted by a third-party data centre provider but dedicated to a single customer.We believe…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Proof • Policies • Concept • Cloud Computing • Automated • Activities

Latest Features

  • How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

    There are two obvious use cases, but as the technology matures there will certainly be more The first use case places many small VMs on top of a large virtual machine, which is essentially a large SMP created using a hypervisor to aggregate…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Virtual Machine • Performing • Lowcost • Infoworld • Hypervisor

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    The company also announced a program two years ago to open its hypervisor to security vendors with a set of APIs making it easier to protect virtual machines, but VMware has not moved fast enough on this front in the eyes of some observers.Some…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Cloud, virtualisation: Wasting IT resources

    It makes the process less cumbersome.Even companies that have the time and staff to do heavy engineering work tuning their own systems end up wasting money and hardware in places they don't always examine - like the input/output (I/O) of their…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Gigabit Ethernet • Cloud Computing • Bus • Amazon • Adopting

  • Managing networks is still about problem solving

    Host.net a few months ago added a new set of managed security services for hosted VMware-based servers under a partnership with security firm StillSecure.The round the clock managed services — actually provided by StillSecure through its own…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Records • Perspective • Hosting • Firewalls • Faced • Automated

  • IEEE to standardise virtual data centre switching

    Adoption of the specs would make management easier for server and network administrators by requiring fewer elements to manage, and fewer instances of element characteristics, such as switch address tables, security and service attribute policies…
    18 January 2010
    Tags: Switching • Hypervisor • Vm • Battle • Access Control • Joining

  • Five worst virtualisation speed traps

    Overcrowding Your ApplicationsThe hypervisor, OS and hardware may all be the same between two VMs running on the same machine (or identical machines): but the applications running on them change the dynamics so completely that you have to continue…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Demands • Responsibility • Saving • Virtualization • Trouble • Demanding

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How-Tos

  • How to shrink your backup window

    You also need to be very careful about dealing with the configuration of the backup host, because it could potentially have low-level visibility into a large number of different SAN volumes that are actively being used by other servers - which can…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Window • Volumes • Virtual Machine • Hypervisor • Backups • Archiving

  • Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

    You can already perform many management operations that do essentially the same thing at either the hypervisor or the array level -- where are the best practices to decide where to do them? If you ask IT shops and organisations if they are using…
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Addressed • Production • Strategies • Complexity • Missioncritical

  • What is cloud computing, and can it be trusted?

    Only failures due to known GoGrid problems in the hardware and hypervisor layers delivering individual servers constitute failures and so are not covered by this SLA. This FAQ will answer some of the key questions enterprises are asking about cloud…
    16 November 2009
    Tags: Software Vendors • Infrastructures • Flexibility • Amazon • Latency • Cloud Computing

  • How to manage multivendor virtualisation

    But I'm seeing adoption of Hyper-V and Xen in many enterprises," Mann says.Citing the mid-2008 survey, he says more than 30% of respondents planned on bringing Hyper-V into their IT infrastructures and upwards of 40% planned on adopting one Xen…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Infrastructures • Hypervisor • Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Server Virtualisation

  • How to deploy Windows 7

    Gartner estimates that in 2014 about 15 percent of the professional market will run Windows this way.Perhaps more futuristic is the notion of running Windows 7 directly on a hypervisor, which could let you run Windows 7 on computers not designed…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Assessment • Virtual Machine • Microsoft Windows • Hypervisor • Editions • Incremental

  • How to reuse your old virtual hosts

    Step 4: Consider your hypervisor licensing needs The last thing to think about is what additional hypervisor licensing you may need to acquire for your warm site. While ESX 2.5 was a solid virtualisation platform, ESX 3.0 seemed to push server…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Failover • Hypervisor • Volumes • Vm • Hosts • Snapshot

Reviews

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    Clearly an administrator needs a software package capable of managing a sprawling environment full of virtual machines; Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2, delivered in August 2009, is the software giant's latest…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • MokaFive LivePC review

    There's no server hypervisor or connection brokering gateway to live with. It's all in the download.MokaFive can be installed onto a Windows 2003 Server machine and can be used in a VDI platform (such as VMware ESX), although it's not…
    13 January 2010
    Tags: Offline • Mode • Lives • Images • Image • Hypervisor

  • Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600

    The company calls the approach "application aware storage," which means that rather than specifying a volume that is RAID5 with a 64KB stripe and scheduled snapshots, you specify an application type, Oracle Database or SQL Server or VMware ESX…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Volume • Image • Availability • Provisioning • Vmware • Usability

  • SANs tuned for virtualisation

    Doing this through the storage system rather than via add-on software on the hypervisor can save you quite a bit of money. And so is a SAN packed with features that ease the management of storage for virtual machines.
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Vm • Virtual Machines • Inexpensive • Consolidate • Snapshot

  • Ubuntu Server review

    From there, it can be burned to media or installed by various virtual machine hypervisor installer applications. Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some…
    09 June 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Oem • Root • Transactions • Methods • Argue

  • Microsoft Hyper-V RC1

    Combine this with a technically sound, well-performing hypervisor (Hyper-V), and you have the makings of a viable challenger. The result? While there's still some distance to go, VMware should start getting worried.
    27 June 2008
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Guest • Shops • Hosts • Degree • Next Generation

White Papers

  • How desktop virtualisation is a greener future

    How desktop virtualisation is a greener future Parallels More energy efficient than hypervisor approaches whitepaper One of the benefits of virtualisation is that it offers a greener technology. But this paper from Parallels argues that its desktop…
    12 October 2008
    Tags: Hypervisor • Energy • Argues • Parallels • Greener • Desktop Virtualisation

  • Securing Virtualized Infrastructure: From Static Security to Virtual Shields

    Virtualization software vendors offer some interesting management tools that augment the hypervisor software. Data centers have undergone tremendous transformation in the past five years. Virtualization has changed the architecture for servers…
    20 March 2007
    Tags: Demands • Maintenance • Migration • Availability • Virtual Machines • Virtualization

  • Securing Virtualized Infrastructure

    Virtualization software vendors offer some interesting management tools that augment the hypervisor software. Data centers have undergone tremendous transformation in the past five years. Virtualization has changed the architecture for servers…
    19 March 2007
    Tags: Demands • Software Vendors • Maintenance • Migration • Availability • Virtual Machines

  • A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

    This and other recent hardware advances such as multicore processors are further fueling the adoption of virtualization.While a full virtual service-oriented infrastructure is composed of a wide array of technologies that provide resource…
    01 March 2007
    Tags: Microsoft Windows • Hypervisor • Adoption • Datacentres • Vmware • Hypervisors

  • Running Oracle E-Business suite on IBM system i5 servers

    The System i5 Hypervisor allows support of three operating environments concurrently in logical partitions (LPARs) of a single System i5. Oracle E-Business Suite is a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of business applications for the enterprise…
    26 February 2007
    Tags: Environments • Requirements • Foundation • Business Suite • Aix

  • IBM and Novell: The SLES 10 Success Story

    Xen is a lightweight open source hypervisor. Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 delivers new functionality, improved scalability and increased performance. To enhance IBM solutions on System x, System p, System z, and BladeCenter…
    22 February 2007
    Tags: Consolidated • Environments • Guest • Intel Amd • Virtualization Technology

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