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Detective receives international award for cybercrime efforts
Brian Hay, Detective Superintendent of the Queensland Police Service, has won the McAfee Cybercrime Fighter Award. [ + ]
SSD and 2.5" HDDs better for virtualisation
The 3.5 inch HDD I/O channel is fast becoming a bottleneck, particularly given its use in virtualisation projects,
[ + ]Ease VM admin with Hyper-V snapshots
Hyper-V's snapshot feature may not be that useful as a backup plan, but they can help administrators cope with the pains of virtual machines.
[ + ]How Cisco UCS affects virtual storage
Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) has ramifications for data stored on virtual servers. This tip explains what UCS changes and how to cope with it.
[ + ]Virtual backup explained
Roy Illsley, analyst at Butler Group explains the bigges problems that arise when backing up virtual machines, and what you can do about them.
[ + ]EMC takes on cloud vendors with Ionix
EMC's rebranded management line - now known as "Ionix" - is aimed directly at cloud vendors such as HP, CA and IBM.
[ + ]Pay heed to security when going virtual
Organisations are leaping head first into virtualisation, given the technology's purported benefits. But those that do it without considering security are taking wild risks.
[ + ]Does virtualisation really beat a fleet of mainframes?
Some very big name enterprises are taking their entire server farm into the realm of virtualisation. But some pundits maintain that mainframes still have their place.
[ + ]NICTA’s GiFi chip wins international innovation excellence award
NICTA has won an innovation award with its gigabit wireless chip. [ + ]
Sourcefire has plans for virtual security
The company behind the intrusion prevention tool, Snort, will soon launch a virtualisation security product.
[ + ]Making virtualisation play nice with application delivery
While virtualisation eases many common IT pains, it makes delivering applications over the network much harder. We explain how to cope.
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