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Nasa hacker petition presented to Numb...
Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is... More
Apple patents point to haptics, finger...
Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved,... More
NoSQL and the monster mutation
Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle... More
More in this Special Report
Stratus ftServer 6200 review
The ftServer 6200 VMware bundle makes an excellent platform for hosting virtual machines. As VMware servers cannot be clustered, this is about the only option for organisations requiring extreme high availability from their ESX Server environments... more
HP
The company has trimmed the number of apps it runs from 2,500 to around 1,800, but faces another round of consolidation after the EDS acquisition more
The mainframe
Increased interest in virtualisation and the demand for 'greener' computing could see a revival of interest in mainframe computing, according to some industry insiders more
Virtualisation and the future of the server: Part 1
Representatives from Red Hat, Novell and VMware discuss ZDNet.co.uk research examining the impact of virtualisation and other developments on server infrastructure more
Virtualisation and the future of the server: Part 2
Red Hat, Novell and VMware representatives discuss ZDNet.co.uk research, based on reader responses, that reveals systems management is not as easy as it should be more
Virtualisation and the future of the server: Part 3
Research carried out by ZDNet.co.uk has revealed that although virtualisation is not a priority for many companies at the moment, it rates highly in plans for the next five years more
Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor
The company claims it will continue to support the Xen virtualisation project, despite working on an alternative method that is integrated with the Linux kernel more
vCharter Pro
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data. more
Microsoft Futures Special Report
Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust
News In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad
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Discussions
Featured Talkback
So - if people can see the benefits from using virtualisation tools and approaches for consolidation (yes - I think that really is all we are talking about here!), does anyone think we are ready to finally wake up to the fact that we do not actually need to have a physical desktop at every desk? ... or, heaven forbid, that we can access our logical desktops remotely from practically anywhere?
By: Brian Murray
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