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  • Fasthosts offers virtual server range

    Hyper-V is a great fit for maximising on our investments into network infrastructure and connectivity.According to Holford the service will particularly useful for companies who are looking to work on dedicated projects and feel encumbered by…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Server • Hyperv • Hosting • Firms • Dedicated • Configure

  • HP grows cloud consulting services

    HP is assisting businesses and government agencies to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based infrastructures to improve technology and business flexibility. HP is assisting businesses and government agencies to accelerate the adoption of…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Infrastructures • Cloud • Benefits • Adoption • Adopt • Accelerate

  • BT wants all ISPs to open broadband networks

    BT wants all UK ISPs to make their infrastructures available to each other in a bid to increase broadband coverage in the country. BT wants all UK ISPs to make their infrastructures available to each other in a bid to increase broadband coverage in…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Isps • Isp • Country • Consumers

  • Virtualisation skills in demand in IT jobs market

    Everyone wants to be able to get what they need and get it quickly.Bartels, however, like his survey respondents, is only cautiously optimistic.Virtualisation obviously, is one of the big priorities [for 2010], but even more than most things…
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Cios • Picture • Forrester Research • Administration • Predicts • Economy

  • Computacenter becomes first VBlock partner in UK

    The services company has been appointed a reseller for the new VBlock technology aimed at enabling enterprises build cloud computing infrastructures.Vblock Infrastructure Packages combine virtualisation from VMware, networking from Cisco, and…
    22 December 2009
    Tags: Provider • Cloud • Package • Packages • Migrate • Workloads

  • BT And Cisco team up on global cloud service

    Neil Sutton, vice president, global portfolio, BT Global Services, said: "Businesses today typically have multiple, fragmented, disparate IT and telephony infrastructures that restrict effective communication.
    14 December 2009
    Tags: Hosted • Cloud • Unified • Bt • Telephony • Capital

Latest Features

  • Five worst virtualisation speed traps

    Finger-Pointing Instead of TroubleshootingIn many companies with IT silos, people who don't handle shared responsibility well will pass responsibility for anything running on a virtualized server to the "virtualization guy," says Bob Quillan…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Demands • Responsibility • Saving • Virtualization • Trouble • Demanding

  • Will Windows 7 spread desktop virtualisation?

    First, more vendors are offering Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), which give each end user a private "desktop. So now that the technology has been "blessed" by Microsoft, can the industry brace for a desktop virtualisation boom?
    15 December 2009
    Tags: End Users • Virtual Machines • Terminal • District • Cost Savings • Texas

  • Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

    To account for the use of the virtual pool, internal cloud infrastructures usually provide a method of metering and tracking resource use that feeds chargeback or direct billing for the resources consumed," he writes.In her research, Yankee Group…
    15 October 2009
    Tags: Robust • Virtual Machines • Accessing • Workload • Dynamically • Additionally

  • The life and death of a virtual machine

    Systems managers also use Novell ZENworks Orchestrator and Asset Management tools to keep tabs on the virtual machines.While planning their virtual-machine infrastructures, organisations need to look at management as a core component, experts…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: York • Virtual Machine • Layers • Suse Linux • Virtual Machines • Lifecycle

  • Windows 7 will drive virtual desktops, virtual iPhones

    Sales may take off, but the desktop PC may not have much to do with it.VMware, Citrix and a range of other companies are putting clients on smartphones, minimalist thin-client hardware and USB keys in an effort to find something about Virtual…
    30 September 2009
    Tags: Citrix • Logic • Catalyst • Desktop Pc • Desktop Virtualisation • Clientside

  • WiMax in 2010: Too little, too late?

    For example, DigitalBridge Communications, a rural WiMax operator based in Ashburn, Va.and Open Range Communications in Greenwood Village, Colo.are using funds from the $7.2 billion rural broadband stimulus program to build rural WiMax…
    21 September 2009
    Tags: Business Users • Market Share • Gsm • Telecommunications • Feet • Demanding

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How-Tos

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

    Public clouds are easily accessible, multitenant virtualized infrastructures that are managed via a self-service portal.What is a private cloud? Public clouds are shared infrastructures with pay-as-you-go economics," explains Forrester…
    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 cut costs through the supply chain

    At the same time, the company reduced its inventory levels, freeing up $60 million.UnderinvestingCompanies say that driving costs out of the supply chain is an important goal, but the big question is whether - especially during a recession - they…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Flow • Optimisation • Visibility • Signals • Inventory • Investments

  • Case Study: Servers go front and centre

    That's pretty important if you have thousands of servers.Smith sees consolidating server infrastructures as a precursor to full-blown utility computing. General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is…
    12 February 2008
    Tags: York • Virtual Machine • Commodity • Data Centres • Forrester Research • Migrating

  • How to choose the right virtualisation technology for your environment

    This leaves businesses seeking a physical configuration that will support the workload, typically requiring abandonment of vertically scaled infrastructures in favour of smaller, commoditised servers deployed in a horizontally scaled fashion…
    22 January 2008
    Tags: Cpus • Utilisation • Walk • Andrew • Workload • Analyse

  • Case Study: Putting your datacentre on an energy diet

    Time Warner Cable has started using Liebert's new NX modular UPS system, which scales in 20-kilowatt increments, to replace some of its older units.The question was how to go forward and rebuild your infrastructures when you have a limited amount…
    31 August 2007
    Tags: Supplies • Electricity • Datacentres • Ups • Institute • American

Reviews

  • Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System

    Thumper was a tank in every sense of the word and carved a niche for itself in a wide variety of infrastructures.Sun has taken that 48-drive behemoth and turned it into an appliance, the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System.
    18 March 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Icon • Logging • Wire • Protocols • Health

  • VMware ESX Server 3.5

    Although plenty of third-party tools do P2V and migration planning, having these tools built into VC2.5 is handy for many smaller infrastructures.This feature, which requires administrator-level credentials for Windows systems, will discover…
    11 February 2008
    Tags: Handy • Vm • Scalability • Wizard • Shops • Hosts

  • VMware Infrastructure 3.5

    Working with Distributed Resource Scheduler, this can be used to further reduce power and cooling costs in certain infrastructures.For instance, in a virtual desktop infrastructure scenario, if desktop VMs typically become dormant after business…
    18 December 2007
    Tags: Automated • Vm • Wizard • Shops • Stability • Balancing

  • Cisco 7200 core router

    High-end internetworking has never been simple, nor is it ever likely to be, but sometimes it seems that Cisco's being purposefully obtuse in order to separate the wheat from the chaff.Cisco's attempts at providing GUI tools for its hardware has…
    18 January 2007
    Tags: Chassis • Adapter • Leverage • Places • Routing • Isp

  • Cisco delivers 10Gig Ethernet to the closet

    And no wonder: Servers are generally using bonded gigabit links to the network, the cost of Gigabit Ethernet closet switches are dropping, and many corporate desktops are now shipping with Gigabit Ethernet NICs by default.The problem is that many…
    17 January 2006
    Tags: Qos • Gigabit • Chassis • Density • Tcp • Throughput

  • BMC manages network performance

    All modules are part of BMC's Business Service Management strategy, which targets applications and their associated network infrastructures.Together, the Performance Manager Portal and Performance Manager Console identify, diagnose and report…
    28 December 2005
    Tags: Business Intelligence • Events • Elements • Portal • Operator • Views

White Papers

  • Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: technical white paper

    The design philosophy of WebLogic Suite 11g makes the environment simple, open, and easy-to-use within heterogeneous middleware infrastructures while remaining the industrys most hardened infrastructure for mission-critical application deployments.
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Grid • Foundation • Middleware • Suite • Weblogic • Oracle

  • Security inside out

    This paper argues that managing security risks in todays environment requires an enterprise security framework, one that extends beyond traditional network perimeter measures to protect applications, middleware, and data infrastructures.
    30 November 2009
    Tags: Compliance • Board • Cio • Ensuring • Argues • Addressing

  • Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures

    Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures Nimsoft Realise the benefits whitepaper Many IT administrators have already learned the hard way that managing the performance and availability of services built…
    06 November 2009
    Tags: Centralised • Availability • Virtual Machines • Deployments • Configurations • Realise

  • Capacity management in virtual infrastructures

    This white paper offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures, and it offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments.
    06 November 2009
    Tags: Infrastructures • Monitoring • Array • Virtualization • Addressing • Benefits

  • Unleashing the power of iLO, IPMI and other service processors

    In this marketplace, the success and competitiveness of many enterprises are increasingly dependent on the performance of their IT infrastructures. An organisations IT infrastructure needs to be continually up and running, enabling continual…
    12 October 2009
    Tags: Infrastructures • Paper • Guide • Enable • Service Availability

  • Enabling the Virtual Data Centre

    Building the foundation for these next-generation data center infrastructures requires well-integrated server and storage virtualisation platforms. This white paper describes a virtualised infrastructure that applies storage and server…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Achieve • Data Center • Administrators • Server Virtualisation • Storage Virtualisation

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