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July 2007 - Posts
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AppSpeed has secured a UK distribution contract with virtualisation vendor Virtual Iron Software.
The vendor has signed four new distribution partners across Europe. AppSpeed is the only UK partner.... Read More...
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Watch this video explaining it all. Cisco VFrame Data Center is a network-driven service orchestration solution that enables the coordinated provisioning and reuse of physical and virtualized computing, storage, and network resources from shared pools.
The industry’s first service orchestration ... Read More...
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Netuitive, Inc., the leader in self-learning performance management software, today announced that it has been named to the Tech 50 List by Tech Journal South. The company was hand-selected over hundreds of entries for its leadership in technology innovation, marketplace potential and execution succ... Read More...
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Virtualization with Xen is the first book to demonstrate to readers how to install, administer, and maintain a virtual infrastructure based on XenSources latest release, Xen 3.2. It discusses best practices for setting up a Xen environment correctly the first time, maximizing the utilization of serv... Read More...
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Symantec says the reason why it has not struck a deal with VMware to match the one it has inked with VMware's rival XenSource is merely technical - and nothing to do with the fact that VMware is owned by EMC.
Symantec very recently announced that it has licensed its Storage Foundation software to ... Read More...
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Genesis Multimedia Solutions provides a high-availability solution for virtual machines that can be connected to a virtual network using VMware's ESX Server technology.
Unlike general web hosting providers who provide para-virtualization environments, Genesis provides an environment for productio... Read More...
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According to a survey conducted by emedia, using its RapidResearch service, 50% of IT professionals are already virtualisation technology, or planning to do so within the next 18 months.
The survey also indicates that over half (52%) of respondents are saying virtualisation systems introduce some... Read More...
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The combination of the software-as-a-service model and Web-hosting providers could give users a safe, sometimes low-cost and low-risk way to jumpstart Webcasting initiatives.
The emergence of software-as-a-service is posing both new opportunities and challenges that Microsoft and numerous other s... Read More...
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First American Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif., is relying on data center virtualization technologies to provide quick disaster recovery in the event of an earthquake.
The 22,000-square-foot data center, nearly two years old, is built on 30 columns incorporated with vulcanized rubber layers that wo... Read More...
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Newer variants of the widespread Storm worm have introduced a new technique for evading security experts - detecting when they are running in a virtual environment and changing their behaviour if they are.
The innovation is an indication of how common virtualisation is becoming, and also shows ho... Read More...
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Announced this week, the System i 570 uses the 4.7GHz Power6, launched in May, with up to 16 cores, a processor that has come top in many industry benchmarks.
The midrange System i, originally launched as the Application System/400 in 1988, has outlived many other computer systems because it uses... Read More...
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AMD's Barcelona will enable datacentres to double capacity without upgrading power supplies or cooling systems, the company has said. It also includes hardware support to speed virtualisation, providing a boost to server consolidation.
Due to ship in August as the Quad-Core Opteron, Barcelona has... Read More...
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Well, it took about 2 hours before Wyse delivered a response to the news of HP buying Neoware. That was almost too fast i think but certainly a quick response was ideal. Nice to see them moving quick.
This week saw an announcement by HP that it would acquire Neoware in a deal which, subject to a ... Read More...
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VMware, Inc. today announced that Cisco Systems will acquire an equity stake in the company.
Cisco will purchase $150 million of VMware Class A common shares currently held by EMC Corporation, VMware's parent company, subject to customary regulatory and other closing conditions including Hart-Sco... Read More...
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Derek Anderson, lead developer for Enomalism, takes us on a guided tour of Enomalism EC2.... Read More...
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John Bara, VP Marketing at XenSource, discusses the XenSource and Symantec OEM agreement about delivering unified server and storage virtualization.
Deep integration with XenEnterprise enables customers to leverage trusted storage management technology from Symantec and confidently deploy unified... Read More...
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Brad Anderson, General Manager, leading product development and engineering for Microsoft's Management and Solutions Division, recently announced on his blog that Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 (Carmine) would be available H1 of 2008. In addition to managing Virtual Server R2,... Read More...
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Apple said it earned $818 million, or 92 cents a share, compared to $472 million, or 54 cents, a year earlier. The company's revenue rose almost 24% to $5.41 billion from last year's $4.37 billion. Part of that amazing growth can be attributed to its... Read More...
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EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.
The project is six months through its three-year time line which will see the entire fleet of Unix servers, spread across eight datacentres in th... Read More...
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When HP moved to buy Opsware earlier this week for $1.6 billion, some industry experts were blown away by the 38 percent premium HP offered for the datacenter automation software maker.
It just goes to show how big companies put greater value on certain markets than others. Now it may be time fo... Read More...
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