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Windows Server 2008: preview, part 2 review
Reviews VMWare also leads the market here with ESX Server (now part of its VMware Infrastructure platform), with Xen increasingly popular in the open source space. First, it’s important to understand how WSV will differ from the current Virtual Server 2005...
[July 16, 2007, 11:33]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog There's also an underlying assumption in a datacentre operating system that there's always adequate hardware waiting to be converted into a virtual resource. Security's a big issue of course, and VMsafe consists of a set of APIs that allow third...
[June 1, 2009, 16:34]
Intel's virtually there with Montecito
News Focusing on virtualisation, the process where one chip can pretend to be multiple independent systems, strategic planner Nima Homayoun said: "It's all about how to configure infrastructure, how to grow things.
[September 10, 2004, 9:20]
Microsoft 'Cloud OS' takes shape
News Hall echoed the message that Microsoft plans to open up much of the technology that powers Windows Live, as well as the underlying infrastructure. In addition to making available its existing services, such as mail and instant messaging, Microsoft...
[July 12, 2007, 12:57]
C# gains support
News With Java, that insulation comes through software called a virtual machine and through libraries of prewritten software; C# comes with its own libraries and other components that make up the CLI. First, by virtue of its monopoly in desktop computer...
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News Trend Micro has updated its flagship Deep Security product to protect cloud-based servers, arguing that the shift to remotely hosted, virtualised infrastructure has created risks not addressed by existing security techniques.
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
VMware service links public and private clouds
News The infrastructure service, vCloud Express, will be offered via a number of cloud service providers that have signed up as partners, the company said in its announcement at the VMworld conference on Tuesday.vCloud Express is based on the company's...
[September 2, 2009, 13:53]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News Telcos working towards an Internet Protocol (IP)-based infrastructure for services will have to spend what money they have on the metro, he said. The MEF specifications couch network parameters in terms which telcos will understand, including...
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
Sun-Microsoft Java spat: Developers the biggest losers
News When Microsoft licensed Java in 1996 and subsequently developed its Visual J++ programming language and a Java Windows Virtual Machine, Java's success was not assured. Microsoft executives said the company also has no plans to include Java Virtual...
[January 25, 2001, 9:11]
Software licences are bogged down in tech sprawl
Articles You're starting to see policies changing to a per-virtual-machine basis or to different models to address the virtualised world. The question is: how can I remove physical content from mobile devices including laptops and keep it in a secure...
[October 28, 2009, 11:24]
Alcatel-Lucent brings mobile features to landlines
News The system is designed to work with and enhance existing infrastructure already in place, so companies such as AT&T, Vonage or T-Mobile, for example, can add value to their services without building a new system from scratch.
[March 31, 2009, 12:42]
Symantec announces Veritas NetBackup 6.5
News Symantec has announced what it claims to be the first product that allows IT professionals to centrally manage tape, disk and virtual machine storage. Veritas NetBackup 6.5 has a single console to manage tape and disk-based backup, data de...
[June 13, 2007, 10:33]
Mono Project aims to bring .Net apps to Linux
News The implications of Mono, however, are further reaching because the tools are based on the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and C# implementations that Microsoft submitted to the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) standards body.
[October 30, 2001, 10:23]
VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism
News The cost is around the management of the infrastructure," said Sjostedt. The money is all in management tools and services [rather than the hypervisor], while previously virtual operating system vendors claimed that the value lay in virtual...
[October 6, 2009, 17:10]
Microsoft makes Linux concessions
News Also, he said, the company will step up support for running Linux-based virtual machines in a service pack update to its Virtual Server product later this year. A Microsoft representative demonstrated Virtual Server running instances of Red Hat...
[April 21, 2005, 8:55]
Social software: a boon for business?
News The idea of a virtual life makes no sense to most people in Britain: they don't really want to get married, meet new people, or make money entirely on the Internet," said William Davies, the author of the report.
[May 30, 2003, 12:17]
Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats
News The memo, prepared by the critical infrastructure-threat analysis division of US-DHS, outlines the threat of information theft to "corporate and government leaders" when travelling, and also when returning home with potentially compromised equipment.
[September 15, 2008, 17:47]
Google and Microsoft vie for Earth domination
News Business uses could include fleet tracking or mapping the movements of transport infrastructure according to Google. Microsoft was also represented at the event by Vincent Tao, director of MSN Virtual Earth — the software giant's rival application...
[September 12, 2006, 16:00]
Beating back biggest risk - the 'inside job'
News With new software from Shym Technology Inc.and Network-1 Security Solutions Inc.companies that have focused on building a virtual fortress around their networks will now be able to ensure that people already inside don't go where they shouldn't...
[January 18, 1999, 10:06]
Multiprotocol label switching makes for mainstream
News But massive infrastructure changes don't happen overnight, especially among large incumbent players. Verizon -- the largest of the old-school Baby Bells -- said it will begin using a converged voice and data network with an IP/MPLS infrastructure...
[February 9, 2004, 14:30]
