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Microsoft cuts back on virtualisation features
News And the EMC subsidiary's Virtual Infrastructure 3 software — available for more than a year — enables much of the higher-level incarnation of virtualisation that treats multiple servers as a pool of computing power.
[May 11, 2007, 9:36]
Get Fit For Summer !
Blog Building a virtual infrastructure whittles this down to 4 physical servers plus storage, a great saving in tin and associated power/heating costs as well as all those vendor warranties needed. This was prompted by seeing a customer this week who...
[December 19, 2008, 13:20]
Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser
News The project is based on the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure, allowing it to turn C or C++ code into ActionScript instead of platform assembly code, Petersen said. At the more recent presentation, Petersen focused on the...
[July 10, 2008, 12:25]
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News The EC2 service provides customers with virtual access to Amazon's computing infrastructure, using virtual machines that can be created using the Xen virtualisation platform. Online book seller and cloud-computing provider Amazon.com has blamed the...
[June 11, 2009, 16:31]
Security is your biggest IT Priority
News The IT infrastructure must evolve before the virtual office concept can become a reality, and UK companies are clearly responding to the demands of their workforce: almost 70 percent of respondents intend to implement remote access, 54 percent Wi...
[November 3, 2005, 11:50]
BEA bundles Web application tools
News The bundle combines WebLogic Server with Workshop, a set of Java developer tools; JRockit, a Java Virtual Machine application to allow interoperability with non-Java applications; WebLogic Portal, a set of tools for creating portal sites that...
[August 23, 2004, 8:50]
IBM calls PCs back from beyond the grave
Leader With its Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure, IBM is mixing up VMWare, Citrix and its own BladeServer to create a virtual Valhalla in a rack that can contain the binary images of up to 200 poltergeist PCs.
[October 19, 2005, 15:05]
BBC throws down broadband gauntlet
Talkback The problems are a) Few ISPs have any experience of Mulitcasting or even mention it on their web sites.b) Although it is a "mandatory" part of IP it is not AFAIK implemented (fully) in most domestic ADSL equipment - it should be available in Cisco...
[November 11, 2004, 10:57]
Gartner: Printer ink costs more than perfume
News He said that businesses needed to make their infrastructure more flexible, and that virtual, consolidated technology could allow them to make changes at lower costs. You need a flexible infrastructure.
[October 12, 2004, 13:15]
Intel investment boosts VMware IPO
News Intel Capital already has invested in other virtualisation companies, including SWsoft and Virtual Iron. Virtualisation lets a single computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously in different partitions called virtual machines.
[July 10, 2007, 8:21]
VMware Fusion beta for Macs goes public
News VMware said that virtual machines created with VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware Infrastructure will run seamlessly in Fusion with no need to recreate libraries. The Fusion beta has support for Intel's Virtualisation Technology (Apple...
[December 27, 2006, 11:35]
BIBLE: Success in Silicon Valley - hard work or hard cash?
News The First Tuesday phenomenon is also creating the virtual infrastructure of support services that exists in Silicon Valley, bringing entrepeuners into contact with Internet friendly lawyers, advertising agencies and public relations firms.
[November 11, 1999, 8:32]
IBM utility model taps into Net
News Although some clients prefer to have some of their computing infrastructure on IBM machines that are dedicated to them alone, the lower cost of the shared, totally "virtual" method is a big seller, Riegel said.
[September 30, 2003, 11:35]
VoIP in demand at M&S
News To implement the contract, C&W will use a product called Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network with Quality of Service. This will run over C&W's own network infrastructure, which it claims offers much greater reliability and security than...
[May 19, 2005, 10:45]
Seven Steps to Heaven & Five to the Cloud
Blog From these lists I found a quite pleasantly digestible piece of content from Lori MacVittie at Application Delivery Networking (ADN) company F5 Networks entitled ‘5 Steps to Building a Cloud Computing Infrastructure’.
[April 28, 2009, 8:24]
VirtualCenter for VMware Server review
Reviews VMware also offers a different version of VirtualCenter 2.0 for its Virtual Infrastructure range of high-end server virtualisation tools. Companies would need to spend considerably more money on SAN infrastructure and high-end products from VMware...
[June 29, 2007, 16:00]
Redmond seeks wireless upgrade
News The new network will allow multiple virtual networks using the same infrastructure. The wireless deployment comes at the same time Microsoft is shifting much of its telephone infrastructure from traditional systems to those that rout calls over the...
[December 10, 2004, 11:55]
HP reveals its latest blade
News The company on Monday said it's begun shipping its HP Blade PC bc1000, a primary component of its Consolidated Client Infrastructure package, which allows companies to centralise the administration of their desktop computers.
[April 27, 2004, 9:40]
Sun steps into the cloud-computing fray
News Sun also said it was encouraging developers to deploy their own Sun Open Cloud applications as virtual machine images (VMIs) of Sun software. By using this method, companies could avoid having to configure and install their own infrastructure...
[March 18, 2009, 14:38]
HP unveils midrange storage
News HP unveiled its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000 and added new software support for its Array family of storage systems. The new products will allow midrange customers to build a storage infrastructure that can be adapted as business...
[April 15, 2003, 15:22]
