Michael Lehmann is Cisco's new Partner Operations Director for Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

Telstra’s Chief Operations Officer, Greg Winn, has left the company to return to his home in the United States. [ + ]

At IDC's Virtualization Forum, users reported that support issues have slowed down their deployments.

Auckland University has automated the backup of its virtual environments, resulting in a DR window of 2 hours.

According to Melbourne IT, which recently undertook a cloud-computing beta, users need more education on cloud and virtual technologies.

This article explains what problems you may face when implementing application and desktop virtualisation - and how to avoid them.

Although Hyper-V may cost less on paper, VMware's ESXi can sometimes prove a cheaper alternative - depending on the specifics of your implementation.

Lisencing costs mean that although desktop virtualisation can improve security and ease management, it won't save you any money.

This article explains how to create a business continuity plan for Microsoft's Hyper-V.

This article explains why, when, and where you would want to use desktop virtualisation in your organisation.

Emerson has introduced a new universal measure for data centre efficiency — a way to measure how much power a data centre consumes, but more importantly, a way to calculate savings from energy optimisations at different stages in the data centre design process.

Networking giant Cisco will soon branch out into new areas, with the upcoming release of its range of servers designed specifically for virtualised environments.

Writer David Mortman examines the issues that will prove a hassle for security in 2009, including virtualisation, software as a service and web apps.

HP has updated its Insight Dynamics - VSE product with features that simplify virtual server management.

Windows Server and Hyper-V will soon benefit from Marathon's everRun fault-tolerance features, thanks to a recent move by Microsoft.