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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 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 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's 10 commandments of destruction
Articles Virtualisation has been around for a long time, but it has only recently become an essential part of enterprise IT. With the addition of explicit virtualisation support in most recent processors, it has become cheap, reliable and powerful enough...
[June 5, 2009, 15:02]
Virtualisation 'bottleneck' removed for graphics-intensive workstations
Blog Since attending the Parallel’s Summit 2009 back in January I’ve been trying to listen out for virtualisation news more intently than ever. But now, I’m wondering if virtualisation is getting even more sophisticated as it spreads to every available...
[March 31, 2009, 12:04]
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 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 and the future of the server: Part 3
Video Research carried out by ZDNet.co.uk has revealed that although virtualisation is not a priority for many companies at the moment, it rates highly in plans for the next five years.
[June 2, 2008, 16:03]
Virtualisation and the future of the server: Part 1
Video Representatives from Red Hat, Novell and VMware discuss research from ZDNet.co.uk examining the impact of virtualisation and other developments on server infrastructure.
[June 2, 2008, 14:34]
Virtualisation et consolidation en grande structure
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[June 10, 2006, 1:00]
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: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria
White Papers In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest...
[January 19, 2009, 11:01]
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. Virtualisation is important technology but not an end unto itself," Kelly said.
[February 29, 2008, 8:03]
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]
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 seen as key for greener datacentres
News Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney. Brad Engstrom, a consulting engineer at Cisco, said virtualisation was not restricted to the...
[July 4, 2008, 8:50]
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 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 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 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]
