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EMC's Tucci: Next big things in IT
News He sees that private datacentre virtualising all of its servers' workloads, and then being able to move some of those workloads to the cloud. When he talks about the virtual datacentre, he is talking about the on-premises datacentre.
[May 22, 2009, 12:21]
Why cloud turbulence will leave users unruffled
Comment That automation of processes inherent in a cloud-computing model is designed to simplify datacentre management and free administrators from tedious and mundane tasks and give them more time to innovate.
[September 17, 2009, 15:48]
SAP and IBM offer joint cloud migration
News What we have been working on is being able to move an application from one server to another, either in the datacentre or from one datacentre to another, and making that process happen so that, while it moves, the application carries on working...
[March 5, 2009, 11:05]
Microsoft touts virtualisation lineup
News Elliot said virtualisation will be "key in future datacentre build-outs", as hardware spending flattens through to 2010 but administration costs quadruple and power and cooling costs go up by eight times.
[July 10, 2008, 9:05]
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews A blade PC solution such as ClearCube's moves the PC hardware into racks in the datacentre, leaving a connection unit on the user's desktop for keyboard, video and mouse, plus selected (managed) peripherals.
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
Sun's blades will virtualise Solaris
News N1, like IBM's "autonomic computing" and HP's "utility datacentre", is intended to let IT managers apply the level of computing, storage and network resources required for each application, without having to manually reconfigure resources.
[December 11, 2002, 9:57]
Google lifts the lid on its once-secret server
News Jimmy Clidaras revealed that the core of the company's datacentres are composed of standard 1AAA shipping containers packed with 1,160 servers each, with many containers in each datacentre. Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but...
[April 3, 2009, 16:08]
Cisco move set to shift computing burden off devices
News Eventually, we see the datacentre carrying all the way to the home. The company's long-term vision of a 'virtualised' datacentre could eventually revolutionise how consumers access new services via the net.
[March 17, 2009, 11:42]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News In particular, servers hosted in datacentres with multiple tenants can be exposed to risks from within the datacentre, the company said. Trend Micro has updated its flagship Deep Security product to protect cloud-based servers, arguing that the...
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
CIOs increasingly seen as 'green ambassadors'
News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption — by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say...
[May 2, 2008, 9:31]
Gartner: IT bosses must prepare for cloud computing
News In the datacentre, you may need to defend your performance against the competitors out there. Communicate inside the business your contribution to cost management and service-level agreements, particularly when the cloud option emerges and the...
[May 9, 2008, 10:08]
VMware View 3 gets virtual printing
News The virtual desktop images are hosted in the datacentre, meaning IT personnel can use the package's management platform to provision and manage up to thousands of instances of the virtual desktops. Offline Desktop, which VMware said is an...
[December 4, 2008, 13:34]
iCloud virtual desktop public-beta launched
News The same application can run simultaneously on different users' iCloud desktops, allowing a document to be edited by multiple users at once, with modifications passed along to the different users by a transaction co-ordinator in the datacentre...
[April 9, 2009, 16:23]
Virtualisation 'next frontier' for hackers
News The key problem with the growth in adoption of server virtualisation, Ng explained, is the lack of control — or 'VM sprawl' — in the datacentre. While actual hypervisor breaches are still rare, there is still the potential threat of the hypervisor...
[October 21, 2008, 8:51]
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
News The certifications cover skills such as storage networking, datacentre networking infrastructure, datacentre application services and virtualisation. Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) C-series rack-mount servers, announced on Wednesday, add a...
[June 5, 2009, 15:17]
Fault-tolerant systems get cheaper
News As the cost of such failures gets higher, fault-tolerant hardware is becoming a serious option outside the financial sector and the datacentre. The system is intended to support critical Windows application servers, and designed to be comparable in...
[March 4, 2003, 8:49]
VMware completes storage code testing
News Now, your software can move around the datacentre, and your data can move around your datacentre," he said. The ability to manage multiple servers and storage devices in such a fashion is seen as a stepping stone on the path to utility computing...
[December 9, 2003, 13:30]
Cisco, EMC to unveil cloud joint venture
News The products are aimed at the growing market for cloud computing, a loose term that refers to the use of technologies such as virtualisation to make the provisioning and maintenance of datacentre resources more flexible.
[November 2, 2009, 14:44]
Dell and Brocade forge closer alliance
News The two vendors are committed to partner on developing technologies to help improve datacentre efficiencies, including a "dynamic infrastructure and optimisation solution" and a set of tools to better manage application delivery and deployment...
[September 3, 2009, 16:40]
Linux clusters head to the datacentre
News Dell and Oracle strengthened their ties in New York on Wednesday when the companies announced at a press conference they were going to work even closer together in an attempt to push Linux into the enterprise datacentre.
[April 3, 2003, 9:48]
