What is Next in Virtualisation?

Green initiatives have moved from something to talk about to the point where project plans are being created. In most cases, plans are elaborate and will take months, if not years, to implement. If traditional NAS systems are not...

Many of my last blog posts have talked generically about virtualisation and how to make it really work for your organisation and how to achieve the best ROI. For some companies this is new ground as far as virtualisation goes,...

Return on investment (ROI) is all about getting your money’s worth and perhaps more importantly, helping justify future investments.  In my last post, I offered some tips on how to effectively implement your...

Microsoft has announced a number of Virtualisation-related products for the 8th of September and has concurrently given its accent to its first Virtualisation User group, hinting at more to come. At a launch event called...

Following the releases of Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V and VMWare there has been a lot of discussion as to who will win the virtualisation war. Both these offerings have taken virtualisation to a new level by offering systems...

Entreprise Open Source Darling, Red Hat, has unveiled more details about its forthcoming products and services in the Virtualisation segment and looks quite bullish about the future of Corporate Open Source. In a long interview...

Some customers who implement virtualisation solutions are not realising the ROI that they originally anticipated, and in many ways they are finding management of their virtualised environment more complex than they originally...

Everyone’s talking about virtualisation. It’s everywhere. It’s often seen as a quick win, silver bullet solution to fix IT problems, but there’s still a lot of talk about botched implementations, low...

Given the constant focus on virtualisation as a ‘green’ technology, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s manna from heaven for IT execs desperate to reduce power consumption and carbon emissions.While the...

With the launch of Microsoft’s Hyper-V the momentum towards virtualisation has just stepped up another gear. Through all the excitement, there are still a few stalwarts of tradition trying to put off would-be virtualisation...

Virtuozzo Parallels, that works on this basis, although reasonably successful, is never really mentioned in the same breath as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft. We think the industry has agreed that there are two levels of vendor...

A report published by International Data Corporation (IDC) singled out software licensing as one of the main reasons why virtualisation is not experiencing a much bigger growth in Europe. Half of the severs bought in the European...

Recent independent surveys conducted in both the United States and Europe by Storage Firm ONStor, Inc., indicate that the majority of businesses surveyed in both US and Europe believe that their existing storage solutions will...

Virtualisation - The Future of Your Desktop Applications Recently I was asked to examine a product called Software Virtualisation Solution (SVS) from Altiris together with an add-on product called DVS4SBC for use in the...

Microsoft is pulling all stops to get Virtualisation into its customers' platforms like there's no tomorrow. The company has announced that it is lifting a ban that prevented Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium from being...