Sun server/storage exec: Virtualization has customers confused Q&A with Sun's new head of storage and servers looks at Sun's attempt to reverse declining disk revenues, address energy efficiency and deliver storage and server advances. Data center managers see green, battle virtualization hangovers in '08 Virtualization and green computing continue to take hold among data center planners, but industry watchers argue the hype surrounding the technologies could leave many data center managers disappointed with the reality. Breaking the data replication bottleneck IT organizations agree on the need for backing up key business data. Backing up large volumes of data is not trivial as data replication takes a lot more than just a big pipe. Get your roadmap to a virtual infrastructure Has your organization gotten on the virtualization band wagon, or are you still wondering whether or not a virtual infrastructure is right for you? Review: PlateSpin and LeoStream deliver stable server migration tools Keeping all of these components in tact with causing as little server downtime as possible is a tall order that both PlateSpin and LeoStream take pretty successful stabs at it. Virtual Iron offers plausible VM hosting platform Virtual Iron’s Enterprise Edition V3 is a virtual machine hosting platform that couples its open source hosting foundation with tools to convert existing servers into VMs and subsequently manage them. FastScale strips VMware machines to the bare necessities We have high hopes for FastScale’s combination of products as it cuts away needless junk from virtual instances, making operating system and application instances lean and unencumbered by unused code. FastScale’s product can ... Dell reinventing itself, but support issues linger Dell's efforts to reinvent itself this year through a dramatic break from its direct-sales model, expanded services and new enterprise offerings have shown positive early results, but some users have lingering concerns about supply chain management ... Properly handling end-of-life IT assets With major OEMs arguing about who recycles the most electronics and with e-waste legislation on the rise across the world, green computing is a hot topic. However, many companies are still in the dark about how to properly get rid of old IT equipment ... Microsoft releases beta of Hyper-V virtualization technology Microsoft Thursday did something it rarely does. The company released a beta for a long-awaited technology -- in this case its Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology Hyper-V -- ahead of schedule. Forrester: 2008 to be a slow year for IT spending Forrester Research has revised projections for IT investment in 2008 down from previous research published in October, predicting the year ahead will be a slow one both in the U.S. and globally. |
No comments:
Post a Comment