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Virtualisation growing pains
Blog While some industry pundits are keen to talk about immaturity in the European virtualisation market, VMware CEO Diane Greene herself - in a Q&A session with the press - said that Europe is an established IT market with its own proven model for...
[February 26, 2008, 16:32]
Virtualisation means more time at the console
Blog My current favourite virtualisation system software is Sun's VirtualBox. But you will spend as much time -- maybe more, since you now also have to manage the virtualisation system software -- in front of that management console.
[September 3, 2009, 11:13]
Virtualisation gets a harder edge
News The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies such as VMware and, more recently, XenSource, first made their names with standalone virtualisation software that let customers run several operating systems simultaneously on a single...
[September 10, 2007, 16:54]
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]
Virtualisation drives Linux onto IBM mainframes
News In an interview with ZDNet UK, Rich Lechner, IBM's vice-president of virtualisation, said that "40 percent of [IBM's] mainframe customers are on Linux on zSeries. The interest in virtualisation among companies is one reason for the rapid take-up of...
[February 15, 2006, 15:45]
IBM: Virtualisation is the real deal
News Systems programming has a new, hip word — virtualisation. You could define virtualisation as the abstraction of physical resources to better integrate across your infrastructure and to get better use of those resources.
[February 15, 2006, 17:00]
Virtualisation firms get ready for a real battle
News Three companies selling virtualisation software will try to advance their respective fortunes on Monday with new software, a new partnership and a new promotion. A basic advantage of virtualisation is the ability to run multiple jobs gracefully on...
[February 6, 2006, 8:05]
Virtualisation key to next-gen data centres
News Virtualisation will play an important role in next-generation data centres, but that will also create new challenges that require better security planning, according to IDC. In a statement on Thursday, Willie Low, senior market analyst of IDC's...
[September 21, 2007, 9:26]
Virtualisation - a progress snapshot
Blog Why is virtualisation take-up so slow? He sets up a virtualisation technology adoption curve, which shows the degree to which organisations have virtualised their servers, and is a little non-plussed as to why relatively few have done so.
[September 21, 2009, 12:41]
Virtualisation set to boost mobile security
News Virtualisation will be a key technology to help companies beef up security on corporate mobile devices, says Gartner. But the bad news is such virtualisation tools for mobile devices will not be around until 2012 — so businesses need to start...
[September 21, 2007, 8:52]
Virtualisation: Why the contract is king
Comment Virtualisation promises many business benefits — but only if you structure the agreement correctly. Virtualisation offers enhanced ways to use redundant processing power, but because of the inherent ambiguity in the licensing structure, drafting...
[September 18, 2009, 17:14]
virtualisation - not so great
Talkback In virtualisation, you potentially have a client that gets served by many machines. And now we have this virtualisation coming, and it seems to me to be a disaster in the making. I look at this in terms of security updates, in fact any kind of...
[April 10, 2007, 11:27]
Virtualisation: The cure for all software installation ills?
News Most talk about virtualisation these days centres on using server hardware more efficiently. But it's VMware, which leads the virtualisation market, that's working hardest to make virtual-machine-based installation a reality - and to make its...
[March 31, 2006, 16:35]
Virtualisation is a priority, say CIOs
News Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for chief information officers looking to reduce costs and increase energy efficiency over the next 12 months. Three-quarters of ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user...
[May 4, 2007, 15:40]
EMC: Virtualisation is ready for big apps
News Typically, when IT departments decide to use virtualisation in the datacentre, the big question is which workloads to virtualise. The company, which owns virtualisation market leader VMware, spent a lot of time at EMC World 2009 driving home the...
[May 22, 2009, 16:20]
Virtualisation will power utility computing
News Virtualisation is a technology that makes computers more adaptable by breaking the tight link between software and the hardware on which it runs. And by extending virtualisation from the processor to encompass input-output as well, Big Blue will...
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
Virtualisation in the Data Centre
White Papers Virtualisation may drive up resource utilisation on individual servers, thus increasing the total return on those investments. Novell sees virtualisation as a tremendous opportunity for its data centre customers.
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Virtualisation gets ready for the mainstream
News Virtualisation is a hot topic in the IT industry, to be found in every new processor, every datacentre and on every roadmap. But if the average person on the street has even heard of virtualisation, the idea probably left little impression beyond...
[September 7, 2009, 17:13]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid: Virtualisation
White Papers The whole concept of grid computing is predicated on the idea of virtualisation - and yet one is at Quocirca keep finding that the term means completely different things to different people. Is one talking here about network virtualisation, or...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Virtualisation killed the appliance
Talkback As Stephen points out, virtualisation came along and blew the appliance market out of the water. A commodity server always gave better value for money than a dedicated appliance, and now with virtualisation we can have virtual appliances that give...
[April 21, 2009, 16:41]
