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Business Value of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Live Migration
White Papers By converting under-utilized physical servers into virtual machines that run on a single physical server, organizations can reduce space, power and hardware costs in the data center. Today's IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage...
[January 6, 2010, 11:50]
Savitar
Downloads Savitar is a Mac OS X "MUD Client" application which allows you to play games and interact with people on internet MUDs, MOOs, Mucks, and MUVEs (Multi-user Virtual Environment) servers.
[December 25, 2009, 14:39]
Citrix aims to save Hyper-V from disasters
News Site Recovery allows Hyper-V virtual machines to fail over across physical servers and be recovered using live migration, according to Citrix. The freely downloadable update allows users to recover an unlimited number of virtual machines across two...
[December 17, 2009, 10:40]
PacketTrap Network Discovery
Downloads Nagios, MRTG, Cacti), SaaS (Salesforce.com), and virtual servers.pt360's dataflow capabilities automatically pass information between tools so network engineers can pinpoint problems faster and easier than using dissimilar point tools.
[December 15, 2009, 15:56]
Dell expands unified datacentre lineup
News Among the new products is Advanced Infrastructure Manager, which is meant to allow administrators to quickly allocate datacentre resources such as servers, storage and networking equipment, and to move workloads across physical and virtual...
[December 14, 2009, 14:26]
Growing Pains With Virtual Machine Backups
White Papers Backup combines the most I/O intensive application in the datacenter with the system least able to handle intensive I/O loads, namely virtual servers. Since then, Virtualization technology has exploded into the market place with increasingly more...
[December 3, 2009, 23:00]
Shiny, shiny, shiny
Blog If you’re impressed by shiny little boxes you’ll love Pano System, a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution from Pano Logic, which features a unique “zero client” device in the form of a glossy three inch metal cube.
[November 30, 2009, 14:47]
Five Things You Wish You Knew Before You Virtualized
White Papers As Virtual Machines (VMs) proliferate - storage growth, data protection, and application and data recovery are just a few detours that can impact the business' bottom line. Without an effective strategy that addresses the requirements of both...
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
We need to combat the sprawl!
Talkback Built-in Useful Work analysis reporting enables an organisation to differentiate which servers (physical and/or virtual) are doing useful work and when, so that decisions about decommissioning wasteful servers, controlling virtual server sprawl...
[November 25, 2009, 13:07]
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 review
Reviews Also, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) has also been updated to provide cross-server management tools for both R2 implementations, with identical functionality regardless of whether you're using the full hypervisor or the...
[November 25, 2009, 10:00]
Data Robotics launches Drobo Elite and Drobo S
Blog Smart Volumes are virtual (16TB) volumes to which BeyondRAID assigns — and reclaims — data blocks as required. Recent Data Robotics developments include certification for VMware virtual machines to operate on the Drobo Pro, the raising of $10...
[November 23, 2009, 12:29]
IceClean
Downloads Status System Info (Fixed Internal & External Disks, Kernel Infos & Processes Status, Power Management Settings) Show (/var, /bin, /etc, /private, Receipts & Virtual Memory Lists) Unix MAN Pages Call Terminal & Console System Cleanup Remove Root...
[November 19, 2009, 17:14]
Hoster Saves $971,000 in Data Center Costs With Integrated Virtualization Solution
White Papers Fpweb.net also deployed Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 with which IT staff can provision virtual servers 60 percent faster. It has since virtualized 115 servers, avoiding an increase in data center rental costs of $180,000 a...
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
Italian University Boosts Productivity, Expects to Save $219,000 in IT Costs in First Year
White Papers Now, the university saves time and strengthens security with Single Sign On (SSO) identity management, provisions new virtual servers in just 10 minutes, and expects to save U.S.in hardware-related costs.
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
Manufacturer Expands Virtualization Capacity by 20 Percent, Eases Remote Access
White Papers By using Hyper-V virtualization technology, Southern Spars has capacity to deploy 20 percent more virtual servers on the same number of physical hosts and will defer costly hardware upgrades. With the DirectAccess feature, mobile users can access...
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
College System to Cut Deployment Costs for Disaster Recovery Site by Nearly 80 Percent
White Papers By deploying virtual servers, KCTCS will increase availability and cut server deployment time from hours to minutes. Also, by using Hyper-V, KCTCS estimates that it will cut deployment costs for its virtual disaster recovery site by nearly 80 percent.
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
School District Virtualizes Aging Servers, Saves $200,000
White Papers The IT staff is using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to administer the district's centralized IT server infrastructure more efficiently. To date, it has reduced physical servers by 10 percent in remote locations and 30 percent...
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
AT&T's cloud platform set for Europe in 2010
News Users can also share files between virtual servers and connect to Synaptic Storage as a Service: an earlier component of AT&T's cloud strategy that was launched in May this year. AT&T will roll out its cloud-computing platform in Europe in early...
[November 16, 2009, 12:09]
Six factors to weigh up for virtualisation projects
Articles The research firm's definition of virtualisation includes infrastructure software, management tools and hosted virtual desktops, which should triple in value to $298.6m by the end of the year. Such technology is expensive but important, because...
[November 16, 2009, 11:03]
Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
White Papers Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are increasingly viewed as a simple and cost-effective alternative to purchasing, managing, and supporting dedicated server hardware and software resources for a broad range of applications and services.
[November 16, 2009, 9:00]
