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Virtualisation?
Talkback I listened with amazement to the talk on Virtualisation as if it's a new technology. Mainframes from the likes of IBM, ICL, Honeywell etc were doing this back in the early 70's. I was giving presentations with almost the same diagrams to describe...
[January 12, 2007, 17:29]
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]
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 Means 'end Of Windows As We Know It'
News Analyst group Gartner believes that virtualisation will allow Microsoft to create a more flexible operating system platform in the future based around modularity. In a research note released this week, Vista Will Be the Last Major Windows Release...
[August 24, 2006, 16:35]
Virtualisation Takes Airline To New Heights
News Stephen Tame, chief information officer of Jetstar, believes that deploying virtualisation technologies and thin clients will aid this. We've been spending a lot of time and effort looking at how we are going to be deploying and managing our...
[September 26, 2006, 11:45]
Virtualisation Et Performances De Disques
White Papers Selon votre point de vue, la virtualisation a pour objectif de prendre en charge la divergence ou la convergence. Et compte tenu du regroupement effectué pour réduire les ressources de gestion et faire un usage plus efficace du matériel, la...
[January 25, 2007, 23:00]
Virtualisation Driving Grid Growth
News Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into grid computing has found that grid-related technologies, such as virtualisation, are acting as the thin end of the wedge in introducing enterprises to the benefits of grid.
[April 21, 2005, 16:20]
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]
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. But analysts are predicting the virtualisation app — Viridian — will be key.
[June 13, 2007, 9:39]
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. Virtualisation is important technology but not an end unto itself," Kelly said.
[February 29, 2008, 8:03]
Virtualisation Set For Disaster-recovery Growth
News Virtual Iron on Monday released a significant update to its virtualisation system, as it looks to focus on specific-use cases such as disaster recovery and high availability. Server virtualisation is used to divide up a single physical machine so...
[December 11, 2007, 9:29]
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 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]
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 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 Storage Options Explained
News When it comes to server consolidation or building a development environment, virtualisation is at the forefront of making these efforts successful. A sound enterprise-grade virtualisation strategy includes careful planning.
[July 26, 2006, 15:45]
Virtualisation Vendors Warn Of Security Challenges
News Two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments. Virtualisation can challenge an IT organisation's infrastructure, which suddenly becomes dynamic," said Crosby.
[April 15, 2008, 16:05]
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 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]
