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Corporate Express reaps rewards of virtualisation

Case Study The business-supply giant has saved £867,000 and ditched over 90 percent of its server hardware thanks to server virtualisation [08 May 2008]

Hypervisors tip of virtualisation iceberg

News Hypervisors are just the skirmish before the virtualisation war proper, according to vendors and analysts, with virtualisation management set to pull in the money in years to come [02 May 2008]

Citrix: Simple hypervisor key to virtual security Video icon

Citrix: Simple hypervisor key to virtual security

Video Chris Mayers, chief security architect for Citrix Systems, claims companies should look for as little functionality in their virtualisation software as possible to improve security [24 Apr 2008]


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Security expert voices virtualisation concerns

Video Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer for security specialist F-Secure, claims virtualisation technology will have its own specific security threats [23 Apr 2008]


Microsoft on Hyper-V: 'We're virtually there'

News The company has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage for its hypervisor-based virtualisation software [19 Mar 2008]

VMware targets Windows admins with toolkit beta

News The Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 Beta is aimed at boosting adoption of VMware virtualisation products within the Microsoft space [18 Mar 2008]

HP Insight Dynamics virtualises physical servers

News The company has introduced software that allows IT managers to manage physical and virtual assets as though they are the same [18 Mar 2008]

Microsoft to develop virtualisation management tools

News Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Microsoft chief operations officer Kevin Turner said the software giant will develop cross-platform virtualisation management tools [04 Mar 2008]

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Microsoft's Hyper-V boosts interest in virtualisation

News The recent launch of Windows Server 2008 has sparked greater interest in virtualisation technology among businesses, according to the National Computing Centre [03 Mar 2008]

Microsoft: Virtualisation is over-hyped

News The company says current server virtualisation software is removing a utilisation problem and creating a management one, but Hyper-V can handle both [29 Feb 2008]

Microsoft's virtual spin

Microsoft's virtual spin

Leader The software giant loves virtualisation so much it's slapped the term on everything, for virtually no reason [28 Feb 2008]


Microsoft officially launches Windows Server 2008

News At an event in London on Wednesday, Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, and announced that SQL Server 2008 will be available later this year [28 Feb 2008]

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007

Review Microsoft has delivered a remarkably effective first attempt at centralised virtual machine management. It can only get better when it supports Hyper-V and other platforms. [28 Feb 2008]


Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss?

Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss?

Tech Guide Microsoft's Hyper-V is the missing piece from the launch of Windows Server 2008. We examine its background, and predict how the hypervisor market is likely to develop. [27 Feb 2008]


What to expect from VMworld Europe 2008

What to expect from VMworld Europe 2008

Analysis VMware's industry conference will be a chance for the company to show customers and partners whether it has the vision to match its exceptional growth to date [25 Feb 2008]


Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils

News The company has discussed its product roadmap following the acquisition of virtualisation vendor XenSource [11 Feb 2008]

Virtual competition makes for real opportunities

Virtual competition makes for real opportunities

Leader Virtualisation gives IT managers power and flexibility, in more ways than one [22 Jan 2008]


Speculation rife as Macworld looms

News Prior to the start of next week's Macworld event, rumours have been circulating around sub-notebooks and virtualisation [11 Jan 2008]

Finding the Parallels path

Finding the Parallels path

Q&A SWsoft president and chief executive Serguei Beloussov discusses what the future holds for his company, its Parallels product, and the virtualisation market as a whole [13 Dec 2007]


Using virtualisation to improve utilisation

Using virtualisation to improve utilisation

Vendorboard IBM's Rob Stagg discusses how virtualisation technology can help manage wasted resources and reduce complexity [28 Nov 2007]

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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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Virtualisation is a priority, say CIOs