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Metadata Holds Key To Future Of Storage
News From a data management perspective, the benefits of application-derived storage virtualisation are closely aligned with the benefits of the other storage technologies offered by companies like EMC. Vendors will tell you that, depending on what the...
[October 21, 2003, 14:55]
The Development Double-helix Answer To Vista Upgrade Headaches
Blog Certain breeds of Vista upgrade or migration testing solutions (and in particular those that can accommodate testing of non-MSI applications) appear to favour the option to build new virtualisation modules that will fingerprint application DNA and...
[January 14, 2008, 11:34]
Softricity Speeds App Virtualisation
News On Monday, Softricity launched SoftGrid 4.0, a major upgrade to its software virtualisation system that allows companies to deploy applications virtually to users in a flexible way. Softricity claims that the upgraded software now makes...
[April 24, 2006, 11:50]
VMWare Aims Higher With New Bundle
News The company last month updated its plans for new virtualisation software and expanded its lineup through the acquisition of Softricity, a Boston-based company that specialises in application virtualisation.
[June 5, 2006, 9:20]
Red Hat Expands Enterprise Offering
News Java application server software and virtualisation tools will be available from Red Hat by midyear. The company plans to initially focus on server virtualisation, which allows companies to quickly add new servers and applications, and systems...
[September 23, 2003, 16:40]
Red Hat And Sybase Launch Virtual Appliance
News These are often based on virtualisation technology. With clustering and integrated virtualisation in the Red Hat Advanced Platform unlocking incredible cost savings for enterprise infrastructures, the pairing of Sybase ASE as an appliance solution...
[May 11, 2007, 12:44]
Citrix Readies Virtualisation Upgrade
News Later this month, Citrix will launch an upgrade for its virtualisation software that will allow it to more efficiently deal with different types of users within an organisation. The critical part of virtualisation is the management involved in...
[October 12, 2006, 12:20]
VMware Cries Foul Over Microsoft Virtualisation
News The battle to control the virtualisation market has heated up with the launch of a white paper from VMware, which accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive practices. In language reminiscent of Microsoft's anti-trust battles in the US and its ongoing...
[February 27, 2007, 16:01]
Real Stories Of Virtualisation
News We were looking at streamlining workflows and moving from running one application per server to running multiple ones, and so virtualisation came into focus. Although virtualisation technology has been around in the mainframe and Unix worlds for...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Virtualisation Is About Politics Not Technology?
Blog There is a ridiculous term - hypervisor - which is basically virtualisation management software - this kind of language that can make it hard for IT mangers to get the board on side for these kind of projects.
[February 22, 2007, 10:23]
An Open Approach To Virtualisation Management
Comment With all the news surrounding the virtualisation capabilities provided by Microsoft Windows Server 2008, it seems like a good time to take a look at the capabilities offered by competing environments.
[March 12, 2008, 12:35]
Sun's Blades Will Virtualise Solaris
News Sun Microsystem's blade servers, due for launch by March 2003, will be bundled with the first release of Sun N1, the company's virtualisation system. In 2003, N1 will deliver virtualisation at a very basic level, said Andrews, simply pooling...
[December 11, 2002, 9:57]
IBM Launches 16-core Processor Server
News IBM is also planning a new version of System i's i5/OS operating system, with support for web services and virtualisation, due to be delivered in 2008 from the company's new Power Systems division. Features planned for i5/OS version 6 will include...
[July 26, 2007, 16:42]
Microsoft Opens Doors To Virtualisation Format
News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it is making its virtualisation file format available for free and without a licence. The virtualisation technology will be available under the terms of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise (OSP), which it...
[October 18, 2006, 8:45]
Adding Flavour To The Java Brew
Blog Beyond that, we imagine with ‘cloud computing’ set to take over from ‘virtualisation’ as the ‘hot’ new technology, there’s bound to be a lot of vendor discussion about who has the most cloud competent strategy - and of course, curiosity regarding...
[May 7, 2008, 1:20]
Hitachi Makes Move Away From Tape
News The new library uses ProtecTIER VT technology from Massachusetts-based Diligent Technologies, one of the rising stars of virtualisation technology. Reducing the amount of physical storage required is a key factor behind the use of virtualisation...
[July 10, 2006, 12:30]
IBM Rolls Out Storage Tank
News Storage virtualisation Besides introducing the SAN File System, IBM is announcing other virtualisation product changes. With SAN File System, companies can automatically expand the storage capacity allocated to a particular application, IBM said...
[October 13, 2003, 12:50]
Virtualisation Not Key Driver For Server 2008 Adoption
News Although nearly half of companies are planning to install Windows Server 2008 within a year, virtualisation is not a key driver for adoption, a survey of ZDNet.co.uk readers has revealed. The company also confirmed that its Hyper-V hypervisor...
[February 29, 2008, 15:54]
Itanium Trips Up Unwary Designers
News Virtual systems rely on being able to hide some information from programs that don't know they're running on a virtual processor, and on making other information available to the software that's managing the virtualisation.
[April 7, 2005, 11:00]
VMware Shares Secrets In Security Drive
News Virtualisation vendor VMware has quietly begun sharing some of its software secrets with the IT security industry under an unannounced plan to create better ways of securing virtual machines. The start-up claims that by VMware's own admission, two...
[September 17, 2007, 8:46]
