Virtualisation to exhibit more vendor lock-in, higher prices
27 July, 2009 by Michael Warrilow and John Brand, Hydrasight
VMware may soon completely monopolise the virtualisation market, analysts warn, which would have ramifications for prices and vendor lock-in.
Virtualisation to benefit from FCoE
24 July, 2009 by Dave Raffo
IBM will soon sell Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) equipment from Brocade and Cisco. Analysts say storage virtualisation deployments have the most to gain from such a move.
What comes after server virtualisation?
22 July, 2009 by John Burke
Server virtualisation has helped data centre managers improve efficiency across the board. But there's more you can do to improve data flows through across the network.
Six-core CPUs could have benefits for virtualisation
22 July, 2009 by Mark Fontecchio
New Opteron chips could have vast ramifications for virtualisation. But they'll require some reworking of your applications.
VMware backup for Quantum products
21 July, 2009 by Dave Raffo
Quantum has introduced virtual backup appliances for its disk libraries and LTO-4 tape appliances.
VMware will virtualise Google OS
21 July, 2009 by Alex Barrett
VMware will soon allow the virtualisation of Google's Chrome operating system. Is VMware starting some Linux-based mischief?
SSD and 2.5" HDDs better for virtualisation
20 July, 2009 by Chris Mellor
The 3.5 inch HDD I/O channel is fast becoming a bottleneck, particularly given its use in virtualisation projects,
SNIA's Scroggie on virtualisation
20 July, 2009 by Craig Scroggie
Virtualisation has strong ties to cloud-computing, ones that could influence how you use the technology.
Two alternatives to server virtualisation
17 July, 2009 by John Burke
Learn about two virtualisation techniques that you can use instead of server virtualisaiton.
Ease VM admin with Hyper-V snapshots
16 July, 2009 by Robert McShinsky
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
14 July, 2009 by Marc Staimer
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
13 July, 2009 by Anthony Adshead
Roy Illsley, analyst at Butler Group explains the bigges problems that arise when backing up virtual machines, and what you can do about them.
Pay heed to security when going virtual
09 July, 2009 by Ron Condon
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.
EMC takes on cloud vendors with Ionix
09 July, 2009 by Simon Sharwood
EMC's rebranded management line - now known as "Ionix" - is aimed directly at cloud vendors such as HP, CA and IBM.
Tracking down your virtual machines
09 July, 2009 by David Mortman
Before you can secure your virtual environments, you must be able track down your machines.