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UK Company Launches Virtual Private Servers
News A small UK company based in the West Midlands has launched a way for single users and small companies to use inexpensive virtual private servers (VPSs) for conducting business or to run private websites.
[April 3, 2008, 16:59]
Healthcare Company Uses Virtual Machines To Pare Data Center Costs And Speed Deployment
White Papers The company can deploy a virtual server in five minutes, in comparison to the two weeks required to order a physical server and more than two hours to deploy it. The solution: create virtual machines using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How Virtual Storage Revolutionised My Life And Saved M&G Money - The Story Of One Company's Experience Of Virtual Technology
White Papers It was this kind of lateral thinking that led M&G to be one of the first companies in the UK to make use of virtual disk for storage. The purchase of StorageTek's industry leading SVA virtual disk demonstrates M&G's faith and enthusiasm for the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Leading Insurance Company Test Lab Turns To Virtual Machines To Improve Efficiency
White Papers To reduce server growth and improve hardware efficiency, Allstate launched a server consolidation initiative that included deploying virtual machines in the company's test and development environments using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Global Knowledge Delivers Successful Virtual Classroom E-Learning Program For Worldwide Telecommunications Systems Company
White Papers TSC selected Global Knowledge and its Virtual Classroom e-Learning (VCeL) training solution to address the educational issues in TSC's core business because of their position as a global education supplier.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Leading Media Company Reduces Virtual Machine Management, Expands Environment
White Papers In 2004, it replaced legacy hardware with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. While this resulted in many benefits, Digiturk was challenged with managing the virtual infrastructure. Monitoring and creating new virtual machines was time-consuming.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Lam Research: A "Variable Virtual Company" Focuses On The Core
White Papers The company also needed to focus on customer-facing issues - such as product development and engineering support. Lam Research Corporation provides semiconductor manufacturers with equipment they need to fabricate chips.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Promise Of The Virtual Oil Company
White Papers World demand for oil and gas is at an all-time high as emerging economies demand increasing amounts to fuel their growth. The Energy Information Administration predicts that world oil demand will grow from 80 million barrels per day (at 2003 levels...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Leading Australian Software Company Adopts VMware Virtual Infrastructure For Increased Flexibility, Cost Savings And Effective Disaster Recovery
White Papers The company has always been a keen early adopter of new technologies. When the company sought an effective disaster recovery (DR) solution for its extensive operations, it looked for cutting-edge technology that would meet its needs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Groove Virtual Office Case Study: Distribution Company Connects Reps With Home Office, Cuts Costs
White Papers This small distribution company delivers gaming supplies to customers all across Alaska. Mobile, disconnected sales reps use Groove to dynamically share information quickly and easily with management.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virtual Keyboard Allows Typing Anywhere
News The company's Virtual Keyboard is designed for anyone who's become frustrated with trying to put information into a handheld but doesn't want to carry a notebook computer around. Start-up Virtual Devices has developed a flashlight-size gadget that...
[May 15, 2002, 10:31]
Fast-Growing Hosting Service Provider Centralizes And Simplifies Server Management
White Papers However, with hundreds of customers and an array of server nodes, managing the company's growing virtual environment was a challenge. RackForce was the first hosting service provider to bring Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 technology to market.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Successful Virtualization Garners Cost Savings, But Also Harbors IT Risk
White Papers The company's new virtual networks span diverse departments, from finance to marketing to product development, and have resulted in substantial cost savings. Global Enterprise Manufacturing (GEM), a fast-growing international conglomerate, recently...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Financial Services Firm Improves Application Deployment With New Solution
White Papers In 2006, the company deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to increase hardware utilization and to configure servers with Intel processors. The company also deployed Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to improve management of virtual and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virtualisation Set For Disaster-recovery Growth
News Virtual Iron is based on the open-source Xen hypervisor, and the company is working to distinguish itself from the offerings of XenSource, which also sells commercialised, Xen-based offerings. In the latest update, Virtual Iron 4.2, the company's...
[December 11, 2007, 9:29]
Adobe Acquires Web Word-processor Buzzword
News Rick Treitman, chief executive of Virtual Ubiquity, said his company decided to use Adobe developer technologies because they were better than other available programming methods. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired...
[October 1, 2007, 8:58]
VMWare Goes Four-way
News The initial version of the company's software created virtual machines with the power of only a single-processor server. In 2003, VMware expanded to dual-processor servers, and this week, the company announced a version under development that will...
[November 1, 2004, 8:04]
EMC Launches Thin-provisioning Solution
News The company sees it as a way to "simplify and speed both virtual and physical provisioning". The company has dubbed the thin-provisioning solution "Virtual Provisioning". EMC Virtual Provisioning supports remote and local replication operations...
[January 15, 2008, 14:25]
Gamer Wins Back Virtual Swag
News An online gaming company in China was ordered to return a player's virtual goods that had been hacked and stolen. He complained to the company but was told that the virtual goods had no real world value.
[December 29, 2003, 10:50]
Scottish Cyberbabe Takes On The Spice Girls
News Ananova creator Digital Animations' Glaswegian virtual pop star TMmy will release her video and MP3 single at the end of May. Its real innovation is in the field of virtual character technology, as seen with their cyber newscaster Ananova and her...
[March 28, 2001, 14:55]
