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server virtualisation growth
Talkback A growing number of businesses are adopting server virtualisation to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Adoption of virtual server environments is somewhat inhibited by the limited flexibility with respect to storage access.
[June 7, 2007, 15:00]
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. Virtualisation is widely seen as one of the most important...
[February 29, 2008, 15:54]
Virtualisation causes IDC to cut server forecast
News EMC subsidiary VMware leads the market for x86 server virtualisation, which lets a single physical machine house multiple operating systems in compartments called virtual machines. IDC on Tuesday lopped 4.5 million units off its forecast for the...
[March 21, 2007, 7:26]
Virtualisation is key to Windows Server uptake
News Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, analysts have predicted. According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 will initially include a beta version of its...
[June 13, 2007, 9:39]
Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation
White Papers The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server consolidation.
[May 14, 2008, 1:01]
Dell server to back virtualisation trend
News Any new x86 server can run virtualisation software, but Dell plans to release a model that's geared specifically to those drawn to the newly mainstream computing trend. You're going to see us in the second part of this year going back to the...
[March 26, 2007, 9:50]
Does virtualisation stop at the server?
Blog Think ‘virtualisation’ and what comes to mind? I don’t mean Diane Greene’s exit and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, I mean what type of virtualisation and where? So there I was chatting to Patrick Irwin from Citrix last week and I must admit that my mind was...
[July 15, 2008, 12:29]
Proven Virtualisation Scalability With The Sun Fire X4600 Server
White Papers Consolidation requires virtualisation, and specifically high-performance, scalable virtualisation platforms that can host multiple guest operating systems and applications on the same server. This white paper looks at how organisation can...
[June 2, 2008, 11:10]
TOP TEN CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHOOSING A SERVER VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY
White Papers Every enterprise can benefit from improving the utilisation of IT resources. Improved utilisation not only helps reduce costs but can also simplify IT infrastructure, leading to reduced operations costs.
[January 19, 2007, 15:10]
THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
White Papers Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and...
[May 14, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft: Virtualisation is over-hyped
News Server virtualisation is over-hyped and less used than reported, according to Microsoft executives speaking at the launch of Windows Server 2008. Server virtualisation has been a sore spot for Microsoft.
[February 29, 2008, 8:03]
Virtual server SAN connectivity: Why blade server virtualistaion and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity are rapidly becoming adopted
White Papers Server virtualisation is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server provisioning. The early generations of blades offered little synergy with virtualisation, but the convergence of blades and virtualisation is accelerating due to various factors...
[June 6, 2007, 1:00]
Corporate Express reaps rewards of virtualisation
News Server virtualisation has saved business-supply giant Corporate Express AU$1.8m (£867,000) and allowed it to ditch more than 90 percent of its existing server hardware. A long-term plan to relocate into new corporate headquarters also meant that IT...
[May 8, 2008, 13:23]
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualisation
Blog It is now possible to deploy supported virtualisation environments that combine Red Hat Linux with Microsoft Windows Server, the two companies have announced. Windows Server virtualisation chief Mike Neil said in the statement that the support...
[October 7, 2009, 17:40]
Microsoft on Hyper-V: 'We're virtually there'
News Microsoft has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage for its Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008, meaning that it now resides in the middle ground between beta-stage development and final release.
[March 19, 2008, 14:36]
Microsoft touts virtualisation lineup
News Microsoft has announced a collection of virtualisation products that the company said demonstrates its interest in capturing the server virtualisation market. During his keynote on Wednesday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in...
[July 10, 2008, 9:05]
Virtualisation speed test being developed
News An industry group has begun working on a way to find out whether VMware, Xen or Microsoft Virtual Server is the fastest virtualisation software. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) has launched a subgroup to come up with a benchmark to...
[November 13, 2006, 9:53]
Virtual unrealities exposed
News Over the past 18 months, the buzz around server virtualisation has gradually evolved to a point where customer demand almost matches the hype from vendors. Moreover, virtualisation will be built into Longhorn Server within months of the operating...
[July 17, 2006, 15:00]
Real stories of virtualisation
News Although virtualisation technology has been around in the mainframe and Unix worlds for years, its more recent move into the X86 commodity server space has caused a bit of a stir. While the average PC server uses only about 10 per cent of its CPU...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss? review
Reviews In the field of server virtualisation, the current focus of attention is the impending release of Hyper-V, Microsoft's long awaited hypervisor technology (due to ship six months after the launch of Windows Server 2008).
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
