A whole new virtual world for US agency
05 May, 2009 by Herb Ferguson
A US government agency recently implemented a tiered storage project involving 75 servers, 14 TB of data and virtualisation.
Virtual environments demand new approaches to security
28 April, 2009 by Angus Kidman
Recent converts to VMware say they have had to change the way they approach security, in order to cope with their new virtual environments.
In EMC's RapidIO, "everything is virtualised"
23 April, 2009 by Richard Chirgwin
We explain EMC's RapidIO, a bus standard that the company says will be responsible for carrying data in its new storage arrays.
Cloud operating system
22 April, 2009
Industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud has been unveiled.
New VMware API allows third parties into the hypervisor
22 April, 2009 by Neil Roiter
The virtualisation giant's VMsafe API will allow third party security vendors to apply security policies within the hypervisor itself.
HP launches BladeSystem Matrix to rival Cisco's Unified Computing
21 April, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
To combat Cisco's recently announced virtualisation platform, HP has revealed it's own blade server based system
Virtual security appliances emerge
20 April, 2009 by Colin Steele
Vendors are beginning to offer virtual security appliances and software packages.
Cisco's Unified Computing faces stiff opposition from virtualisation incumbents
20 April, 2009 by Bridget Botelho
Cisco's new platform is claimed to ease typical virtualisation pressure points. But analysts and users alike wonder if the company can challenge existing vendors' offerings.
SaaS portfolio
16 April, 2009
Applications Net is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application store, providing software and telephony services via a single portal for small and medium businesses.
Web app optimisation
16 April, 2009
NetScaler 9, a solution for improving the efficiency and TCO of web-based applications running in the data centre, is now available.
Desktop virtualisation
16 April, 2009
VMware View 3 allows organisations to ‘decouple’ a desktop from specific physical devices.
Server optimisation
16 April, 2009
Sun Systems for MySQL is intended to help enterprise customers deploying MySQL-based web infrastructure on Sun servers.
Cloud-based storage
16 April, 2009
Atmos, a cloud computing-based infrastructure offering, is now available.
Virtualisation optimisation
16 April, 2009
VirtualDirector is an optimisation solution for virtualised environments. It provides adaptive and dynamic allocation of resources based on business events.
Private clouds vs. virtual servers
25 March, 2009 by Christina Torode
Analyst Mark Bowker explains what a private cloud is, and what makes it different from the garden variety virtual server.
