A new approach of treating network security as a software application has produced better flexibility in deployment.

While undertaking a consolidation project, financial services company Veda Advantage found that blade servers could not provide the security levels that policy demanded.

Dell's new PS4000 SAN will support apps virtualised under vSphere, Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

The mainframe still has a place in the data centre - particularly when you supplement it with virtualisation technologies.

This list of best practices explains how to get the most out of thin provisioning.

The latest storage blades to appear could prove to be a boon for fans of virtualisation.

Although virtualising your data centre has undeniable plusses, it does add management difficulties, among other things.

The first step in the adoption of cloud-computing should be an analysis and reconfiguration of your LAN and WAN.

AARnet tips in a further $20,000 for the 2009 prize for papers on innovative use of broadband communications to support a sustainable environment. [ + ]

The latest revision of Microsoft's Terminal Services has made it easier to manage virtual desktops.

Learn all about VMware's vNetwork Distributed Switch and what it can do for your network in this article.

If you were holding out for Oracle to offer support for your favourite virtualisation platform, you're about to be disappointed.

There are several options for backing up virtual servers on a Linux-based OS. We explain their use in this article.

Writer Tom Nolle explains how virtualising your router can offer new management and configuration options.

Jeff Boles, analyst at Taneja Group, explains how storage blades fit into today's data centres in this interview.