Virtualisation: Opinions
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Cloud computing. More than blue sky thinking 28/11/2008 10:23:00
If the drip, drip, drip effect of cloud computing works for some of the most popular IT services of today, you can be sure it will seep into mainstream IT soon.Looming on the horizon are the nimbus, cirrus, stratus and cumulus that threaten to deliver us cloud computing imminently. Promising an end to most of the challenges and frustrations of IT systems as we know them, the concept of cloud computing is thundering through the business community to become one of the most talked about and revered subjects of the day. - +
AMD bails out IT 17/11/2008 10:46:00
AMD's faster, cooler, less expensive Shanghai 45nm server CPU maximizes 2P rack server value when IT needs it mostThere's a good deal that's special about AMD's new Shanghai server CPU. It's fabulous science, fun for those of us who get dewy-eyed over the prospect of a 25 percent faster world switch time and immersion lithography. It makes the x86 battle interesting again because it carries AMD into territory that it must fight hard to win--the two-socket (2P) server space--and where innovation is sorely needed. AMD beat Intel's next-generation server architecture to market while closing performance, price, and power efficiency gaps between Core 2 and Shanghai. Just as it did in the old days, AMD now claims that its best outruns Intel's best despite having a lower clock speed. - +
Storing your data in their cloud 07/11/2008 09:34:00
Online file storage can help many small businessesAlthough it may seem like your computing life is all e-mail and browsing, computer users still create files, documents, spreadsheets, boring presentations and all manner of other stored information. Which brings me to the question: Where do you store your data? And are you ready to store your data online in a service hosted by a third party provider? - +
Reinventing storage virtualization 02/10/2008 10:26:00
What needs to be changed to make storage virtualization as ubiquitous as server virtualization?The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the least disruption to these systems. However, after nearly a decade, this approach has not taken off while server virtualization has become widely accepted. What needs to be changed to make storage virtualization as ubiquitous as server virtualization? - +
Testing environment management challenges with virtualisation 26/09/2008 11:16:00
Virtualisation brings challenges and great opportunities for improving the delivery and management of environments for software development and testing.Many IT projects have encountered environment related issues and defects that impact the test and development teams and are the cause of significant delays to projects. It has been estimated that up to 40 percent of effort during the software development life-cycle is wasted due to these types of issues. - +
Red Hat Outlook: Clouds and Virtualization Everywhere 11/09/2008 10:56:00
Technology from Qumranetm, which it recently acquired, is key to helping it take a stand against Microsoft.At a conference for UK press this week, Red Hat added some detail to its plans for virtualization, cloud computing and application messaging. - +
The challenge of securing virtualization operations 08/09/2008 09:00:00
Virtualization security has become a mainstream topicI have been very interested in virtualization security since early 2004 and it now seems like it has become a mainstream topic. Most of the focus however is on securing the technology of virtualization (the hypervisor) and providing virtualized security (usually as virtual appliances). My focus nowadays is more on the operational impact of virtualized infrastructure and by extension the impact on security operations. After all, security controls (technology) are essential but without operational controls (people) they are not sufficient. So what is the operational impact of virtualization? - +
Real time drives database virtualization 25/08/2008 09:36:00
The database as we know it is disappearing into a virtualization fabric of its own.Databases are evolving faster than ever, becoming more fluid to keep pace with an online world that's becoming virtualized at every level. - +
VMotion and FCoE: A match made in admin heaven 14/08/2008 10:54:00
FCoE's affect on server virtualizationIn a recent review, I consolidated FC and Ethernet networks using FCoE (fibre channel over Ethernet) and Cisco's new Nexus 5000 switch. As the review showed, the combination merged the two transport protocols easily, allowing FC frames to channel through a 10G connection without giving up features or performance. - +
Preview: VMware Fusion 2 Beta 2 01/08/2008 09:59:52
Virtualization on the Mac has never had it so good.Virtualization on the Mac has never had it so good. There are several options available for running almost any x86-based operating system as a VM under Mac OS X, including Parallels, VMware Fusion, and VirtualBox. If you like the fact that Macs are less prone to problems, viruses, and spyware, but you simply have to run a few Windows applications, it's a great time to be alive. - +
Collaboration brings value to VAN clouds 30/07/2008 11:51:01
Value-added networks languished in the late 1990s, but new technologies have revitalized them, attracting businessesMaybe Gartner Vice President of Research Benoit Lheureux can't say, "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked," but he did sound a bit like the poet Allen Ginsberg when -- speaking about VAN (value-added network) service providers -- he said, "I saw these guys sink into the morass of the IT hell hole, and they were bleeding revenue."
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Comparing Multi-Core Server Virtualisation
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Comparing Two & Four Socket Platforms for Server Virtualisation
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Implementing Virtualisation in a Global Business-Computing Environment
Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun deploying a virtualised business-computing production environment at several data centers, a rollout that will continue through 2008. The initiative has already confirmed anticipated virtualisation benefits such as faster, more automated deployment. Intel are initially consolidating older servers running applications that are not mission-critical; with opportunities to achieve 16:1 consolidation ratios using two-socket virtualisation hosts based on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors.
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