Spotlight on hybrid cloud infrastructure Spotlight on hybrid cloud infrastructure

All-in cloud might be your ultimate goal, but hybrid is the reality for many enterprises, at least for the foreseeable future.

So how do you efficiently manage both your cloud and on-premise infrastructure? How do you build a unified hybrid cloud platform?

For those with more advanced needs, how do you optimise your hybrid environments? What are your next steps in building software-defined data centre?

iTnews will provide some answers to these questions in our Spotlight on Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, coinciding with VMware’s vFORUM 2016 in Sydney on 9-10 November.

This Spotlight is supported by StorageCraft.

Oracle continues spending spree with Virtual Iron buy

Oracle continues spending spree with Virtual Iron buy

Oracle has added to its virtualisation product line-up with the acquisition of Virtual Iron, which specialises in virtual systems management tools for use in data centres.
David Neal May 14 2009 6:10AM Software
CeBIT09: DEWHA to virtualise legacy systems

CeBIT09: DEWHA to virtualise legacy systems

The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts is entering the second phase of a virtualisation project that will see it turn attention towards existing IT systems.
Ry Crozier May 13 2009 2:36PM Software
Swan's ‘B+’ 2009/10 Federal Budget at a glance

Swan's ‘B+’ 2009/10 Federal Budget at a glance

Budget 2009-10 has revealed scant direct ICT stimulus measures apart from the NBN but a number of indirect opportunities around innovation, prompting the AIIA to rate it a ‘B+’.
Ry Crozier May 13 2009 12:01AM Financial Services
Citrix plans to embed hypervisor on your laptop

Citrix plans to embed hypervisor on your laptop

The future of virtualisation is in laptops with embedded hypervisors, predicts Citrix.
Liz Tay May 12 2009 12:01AM Software
Citrix-Amazon partnership to provide cloud computing ‘sandbox'

Citrix-Amazon partnership to provide cloud computing ‘sandbox'

Citrix is partnering with Amazon in an effort to entice corporations to trial -- and potentially migrate to -- cloud computing.
Liz Tay May 10 2009 4:00PM Software
Network monitoring problems hamper growth of virtualisation

Network monitoring problems hamper growth of virtualisation

Half of business applications will run on virtual machines by 2011, but firms lack tools to secure and manage virtual environments, according to a global survey.
Dave Bailey May 6 2009 2:16PM Software
IBM unveils CloudBurst SOA appliance

IBM unveils CloudBurst SOA appliance

IBM unveiled a raft of new and updated products at its Impact 2009 conference in Las Vegas, aimed at encouraging enterprise use of cloud-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology.
Madeline Bennett May 6 2009 6:38AM Hardware
Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Gazing into its crystal ball, analyst International Data Corporation predicts "pockets of opportunity" for the IT industry in an otherwise gloomy outlook this year.
Nate Cochrane May 5 2009 2:18PM Hardware
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
VMware takes virtualisation to the next level

VMware takes virtualisation to the next level

VMware has officially launched the next version of its virtualisation platform, adding storage and network virtualisation features designed to turn corporate data centres into a single giant resource the company dubs "the software mainframe".
Brett Winterford + VNU News Apr 21 2009 3:54PM Software
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
Cloud computing too costly for enterprise

Cloud computing too costly for enterprise

A study into cloud computing by McKinsey has found that cloud computing doesn’t make financial sense for large enterprises.
Iain Thomson Apr 16 2009 11:57AM Storage
More money for research is cloud's silver lining

More money for research is cloud's silver lining

A freshly decorated Australian researcher in the $78 billion a year cloud computing industry is using his $1000 award to lift the subject's profile locally.
Nate Cochrane Apr 16 2009 6:15AM Networking
Australian researcher finds silver lining in the cloud

Australian researcher finds silver lining in the cloud

Cloud computing is tipped to nudge $A200 billion a year by 2013, but who pays for it is the question that concerns a newly decorated Melbourne researcher.
Nate Cochrane Apr 15 2009 12:00PM Networking
VMware patches new critical security vulnerability

VMware patches new critical security vulnerability

VMware has issued patches for a critical security vulnerability in its ESX and ESXi virtualisation products.
Chuck Miller Apr 14 2009 11:23AM Security
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
Salesforce.com launches free Mobile Lite service

Salesforce.com launches free Mobile Lite service

Salesforce.com has unveiled a slimmed-down mobile application for its customer relationship management (CRM) suite at its annual Cloudforce event.
Ian Williams Apr 8 2009 6:02AM Software
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

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