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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 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 'next frontier' for hackers
News Virtualisation, with its rapid pace of adoption, is becoming a focus for attackers, but not all businesses are aware of, or act on the risks adequately, according to market observers. Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, told ZDNet Asia...
[October 21, 2008, 8:51]
Virtualisation to drive use of staff-owned PCs at work
News The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying hardware could give more companies the option to allow employees to choose and run their own devices at work, according to analysts.
[June 27, 2008, 14:40]
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]
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 - 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 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 - 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]
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: 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 set to save businesses millions
News Virtualisation could save companies millions of pounds and be the dominant data-centre technology within the next two to three years, according to analysts. Virtualisation can reduce energy consumption and cut operating costs for companies adopting...
[September 26, 2007, 8:24]
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 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 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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
