Virtualization

Users note virtualization foot-dragging among app vendors

ITworld staff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:56 -0400

How to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization

kbradshaw — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:32 -0400

How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level?

IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing

ITworld staff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:44:47 -0400

IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs.

Law firm speeds data access with virtualisation

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:38:57 -0400

Rouse, an intellectual property rights law firm, has virtualised its servers in a bid to improve processes and disaster recovery, as well as cut costs. The company used VMware Infrastructure 3.0 in its primary datacentre to cut from 65 servers to 10, in the few months after December. It moved from HP servers to Dell 1955 blades.

Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:26 -0400

Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University opened the Data Center Observatory – an answer to the ever-rising operational costs in IT. Administrative expenses were spiraling out of control because individual research groups within the university were running their own IT infrastructure, characterized by short periods of heavy use followed by many hours sitting idle and wasting energy.

The solution was to build an administered utility that provides computational and storage resources to the university community. Besides improving administrative efficiency, the DCO helped control power and cooling costs while letting researchers focus on what they do best rather than worry about maintaining their own mini data centers.

How Mt. Sinai's IT Team Made Virtualization Easier

ITworld staff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:58:57 -0400

Six years ago, when Prateek Dwivedi, VP and CIO at Mount Sinai Hospital, started virtualizing servers for the first time, there were so few tools available and so few people skilled in virtualization that the whole process was like feeling around in the dark. "Now it's practically easy," he says.

Hosting Firms Have New Answer to 'I Want My Own Server'

ITworld staff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:36:05 -0400

Virtualization is great and all, but sometimes a customer just wants their own server. For many companies, however, off-the-shelf servers are too big, too powerful and too hot-making the typical data-center fare too costly.

The Business Case for Server Virtualization

kalbanese — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:22:16 -0400

Find out how to be more nimble, cut costs, increase systems performance, and enable real-time virtualization.

Many companies say they will adopt cloud computing within two years

ITworld staff — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:10 -0400

One-third of 1,200 organizations surveyed said they plan to convert their application environments away from a traditional, client-server model to one based on virtualization and cloud computing over the next two years, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft and released today.

Layer 7 offers cloud governance virtual appliance

ITworld staff — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:30:14 -0400

With companies increasingly deploying virtualization technologies throughout the IT environment, Vancouver, B.C.-based Layer 7 Technologies Inc. announced this week a virtual appliance for policy enforcement in the cloud.