virtualisation

Virtual data safety

Virtual data safety

Virtualisation is a technology whose time has come, and many of the primary problems in deploying a virtualised environment can be solved with proper planning, as Chuck Miller explains.
Chuck Miller Apr 30 2009 4:43PM Security
Trend Micro goes shopping for virtualisation security

Trend Micro goes shopping for virtualisation security

In one of its first major moves in acquiring virtual security technology firms, Trend Micro has bought Third Brigade, a virtualisation security and compliance software company based in Canada.
Chuck Miller Apr 30 2009 10:13AM Security
Last chance for $1m of free storage kit

Last chance for $1m of free storage kit

Australian organisations have until 5:00pm EST tomorrow (Friday) to apply for an offer of $1 million of free storage, software and services from NetApp.
Brett Winterford Apr 16 2009 3:29PM Storage
Microsoft virtual machine 'mythbusting' backfires

Microsoft virtual machine 'mythbusting' backfires

A Microsoft marketing video designed to "bust myths" around the lack of virtualisation functionality in its products has only served to remind users of how far it has to catch up.
Brett Winterford Apr 10 2009 5:00AM Software
Hostworks lands Jetstar win and former Sun MD

Hostworks lands Jetstar win and former Sun MD

Former Sun Microsystems Australia boss Jim Hassell has been named as interim CEO at Hostworks after the departure of founder Marty Gauvin.
Brett Winterford Apr 9 2009 2:25PM Storage
NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer

NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer

NetApp is offering a whopping 50 terabytes of enterprise data storage, worth about $1 million, to an Australian organisation willing to be iTnews' guinea pig in a benchmark test to prove the validity of NetApp's storage virtualisation guarantee.
Brett Winterford Apr 6 2009 3:48PM Hardware
Symantec showcases prototypes in Sydney

Symantec showcases prototypes in Sydney

Symantec executives in Sydney this week provided a rare glimpse into the company's latest prototypes, which include virtualisation-based endpoint security (VIBES) and DeepClean technology.
Negar Salek Apr 1 2009 10:41AM Security
Inside Virgin Blue’s IT transformation

Inside Virgin Blue’s IT transformation

Virgin Blue CIO David Harvey wants to embrace application offshoring and cloud services as he continues to drive the airline's lengthy IT transformation.
Ry Crozier Mar 26 2009 1:11PM Networking
Cisco taps VMware for data centre blade play

Cisco taps VMware for data centre blade play

Cisco and VMware have announced a partnership designed to dominate data centres using VMware's virtualisation tools and a new Cisco platform that brings together computing, network and storage hardware.
Brett Winterford + VNU News Mar 17 2009 11:09AM Hardware
Rumour mill builds on Oracle Virtual Iron buy

Rumour mill builds on Oracle Virtual Iron buy

Rumours throughout Silicon Valley that Oracle has issued a letter of intent to purchase Virtual Iron have refused to die down.
Miya Knights Mar 12 2009 6:15AM Software
CIOs say 'maybe later' on cloud computing

CIOs say 'maybe later' on cloud computing

Only 10 percent of 700 Asia-Pacific IT executives and CIOs surveyed by IDC are excited by cloud computing.
Brett Winterford Mar 11 2009 12:13PM Software
NetApp storage efficiency guarantee debunked

NetApp storage efficiency guarantee debunked

EMC has dismissed competitor NetApp’s ‘Storage Efficiency Guarantee’ as a shallow marketing stunt, governed by conditions that make it pointless for most organisations.
Brett Winterford Mar 10 2009 6:06AM Storage
Top 10 most recession-proof technologies

Top 10 most recession-proof technologies

Times may have been tough before, but few economic slumps have been on the level of the global recession currently gripping the planet.
Iain Thomson Mar 9 2009 9:03AM Software
VMware shows off phone virtualisation

VMware shows off phone virtualisation

VMware has demonstrated its forthcoming virtualisation technology for phones, showing Microsoft's Windows CE and Google's Android running side-by-side on one handset for the first time.
Daniel Robinson Feb 26 2009 6:13AM Software
Citrix helps Microsoft scale out Hyper-V

Citrix helps Microsoft scale out Hyper-V

Microsoft and Citrix have opened a new chapter in their partnership with the announcement of tools to help enterprises scale up and manage virtual machine deployments based on Microsoft's Hyper-V technology.
Daniel Robinson Feb 24 2009 5:28AM Software
Virtual security is no less real

Virtual security is no less real

There are dramatic cost benefits to virtualisation, but they’re easily negated by poor security practices that result in breaches and downtime, as NetIQ's Rick Logan explains.
Rick Logan Feb 23 2009 4:58PM Security
Brazil carries out world’s largest desktop virtualisation project

Brazil carries out world’s largest desktop virtualisation project

More than 350,000 virtualised desktops will be introduced to Brazilian schools in what is claimed to be the world’s largest-ever implementation of the technology.
Angelica Mari Feb 18 2009 6:56AM Software
Gartner predicts virtualisation to snowball

Gartner predicts virtualisation to snowball

Software virtualisation is likely to continue apace this year, as firms look to reduce costs and improve resource utilisation in their IT environments, according to new figures from Gartner.
Phil Muncaster Feb 15 2009 8:39AM Software
HP bundles XenDesktop with PC blades

HP bundles XenDesktop with PC blades

HP is bundling the latest release of Citrix's XenDesktop with forthcoming blade PC systems as part of its client virtualisation portfolio.
Daniel Robinson Feb 12 2009 6:28AM Hardware
Sun bundles drive virtualisation into SMB market

Sun bundles drive virtualisation into SMB market

Sun Microsystems has created two hardware and software bundles as part of an initiative to drive server virtualisation downstream into the SMB space.
Staff Writers Jan 19 2009 2:34PM Hardware

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