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Storage Virtualisation
News This negates the main benefits of storage virtualisation, simplified management -- in the ideal case, one management console covering all storage across the enterprise. Confidence in storage virtualisation will only come with a history of...
[April 3, 2003, 20:25]
IBM Enlarges Storage-software Sandpit
News IBM said that later this month it will release a new version of its SAN Volume Controller, which is software for pooling data storage devices together in a process known as "virtualisation. EMC hasn't released storage virtualisation technology yet...
[April 26, 2004, 14:45]
Social Networking Driving Server Sales
News Earlier this month Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz announced the company would be merging its server and storage teams into a converged system team, with the aim of putting a stronger focus on virtualisation.
[October 5, 2007, 8:35]
Citrix Releases Cloud Suite, New XenServer 5
News Citrix on Monday also introduced XenServer version 5, which adds storage virtualisation and integration with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008. First-generation virtualisation requires you to rip out your storage software infrastructure and implement...
[September 15, 2008, 14:59]
Corporate Express Reaps Rewards Of Virtualisation
News We dipped our toe early on into VMware and found that could help us out, but our storage infrastructure didn't suit our virtualisation requirements," Jones said at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney.
[May 8, 2008, 13:23]
Real Stories Of Virtualisation
News Standard Life implemented virtualisation technology in 2004 as part of a wider Intel server-consolidation project to cut running costs and simplify management and administration. Although virtualisation technology has been around in the mainframe...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Single PC To Adopt Multiple OS
News Virtualisation, an old concept, is experiencing a new surge of attention from companies such as IBM, HP, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems that are working on ways to link multiple servers and storage systems into pools of computing power under the...
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
Virtual Storage -- Is It There Yet?
News If you do want to consider storage virtualisation, now is a very good time to wait and see. Host-based systems have virtualisation software running on each storage host. Host-based systems are also free from bottlenecks, but as each storage server...
[May 29, 2002, 14:22]
EMC: Beware The Storage Virtualisation Quick Fix
News One of the really hot areas of development in the storage world is virtualisation. Today with a product like Invista, storage virtualisation is really quite robust. For example, one of the basic architectural considerations of doing storage network...
[April 10, 2006, 14:40]
VMware Completes Storage Code Testing
News Michael Mullany, VMware's vice president of marketing, said the company's server virtualisation products complement offerings from other companies that aim to create a single pool of storage resources.
[December 9, 2003, 13:30]
IBM Turns Virtual Storage Into A Reality
News IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualisation products in July, the latest step in the industry's push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Kahn suggested IBM's virtualisation products are far from the final word in storage...
[June 3, 2003, 11:56]
IBM Rolls Out Storage Tank
News Storage virtualisation Besides introducing the SAN File System, IBM is announcing other virtualisation product changes. IBM also has released SAN Integration Server, a package that includes the SAN Volume Controller, switches and storage disks.
[October 13, 2003, 12:50]
Microsoft To Offer Unbundled Hypervisor
News Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while the term "hypervisor" refers specifically to a thin layer that runs on a server and allows multiple operating systems to run on the same hardware, handling...
[November 13, 2007, 8:42]
IBM Expands 'on-demand' Computing
News It will also display a "virtualisation" technology that pools storage systems, so more of their total capacity can be used, and software that automatically changes the tasks assigned to low-end servers.
[May 1, 2003, 7:47]
Virtualisation Will Power Utility Computing
News And by extending virtualisation from the processor to encompass input-output as well, Big Blue will enable Power5 partitions to share connections to the network and storage systems instead of requiring a separate physical adapter for each partition.
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
IBM Launches 16-core Processor Server
News Features planned for i5/OS version 6 will include the option to encrypt data on disk and tape, and a virtualisation function that lets one i5/OS partition host storage for other i5/OS partitions, reducing the number of partitions that users need...
[July 26, 2007, 16:42]
Virtualisation: The Race Is On To Corner The Market
Articles Storage giant EMC bought VMware for $625m (£348) in 2004 and three years later floated 10 percent of the virtualisation company in a partial IPO, picking up $1bn. They were fast and cheap enough to deploy for almost every application but that made...
[September 18, 2008, 16:11]
Sun To Ship Microsoft OS On Servers
News The two companies also committed to expanding their technical collaboration on virtualisation. In particular, the two companies said they will ensure that Solaris works well as a "guest" with Microsoft's virtualisation technology and Windows works...
[September 13, 2007, 17:37]
IBM Services Arm Readies For On-demand Computing
News Wladawsky-Berger said the on-demand technologies will focus on helping companies to integrate processes, to automate IT operations and to better use their resources by combining the capacity of multiple servers or storage devices, a process known...
[April 14, 2003, 9:04]
HP Chooses Thin-client Key For Virtualisation
News HP on Tuesday launched a wide-range of virtualisation products, including new hardware, such as a blade server, and software. The company said it sees virtualisation as a wide-open territory, and pointed to its global research conducted in August...
[September 2, 2008, 17:25]
