Application Virtualisation In The Spotlight

IBM has unveiled its Power7 Express range of servers targeted at small and medium sized businesses, which will allow them to significantly cut costs.According to the IT giant, the four servers are being offered at an affordable...

Desktop virtualisation firm VMware and cloud-based technology vendor Salesforce.com have come together in a joint venture named VMforce, which will offer cloud-based Java applications for enterprise users - in direct competition...

IBM has just spruced up its range of high performance multi-core server solutions with the launch of new resource-efficient eight-core “Power7” processors, tailored to deliver high computing performance for a wide...

If there is one component that has revolutionised business continuity, it has to be virtualization technologies.  In this article, Steve Gold looks at how virtualization can be engineered to go hand in hand with increased IT...

One major benefit of virtualisation lies in the consolidation of hardware - or does it? Steve Gold looks at the real economics of virtualisation and explains why the devil is in the detail... Whilst virtualisation clearly means...

As with the term cloud computing, server virtualisation can mean different things to different people but the important issue to realise is that there are a number of solutions in the marketplace, many of which take slightly...

A lot has been written in the last few years about how virtualisation makes data centres `greener,' but how much is hype and how much is tangible benefit that IT managers can prove - as far as it is reasonable to do so - to their...

Maximising the return on investment (ROI) derived from the virtualisation of your IT resources is not an easy task, simply because of the number of variables that are involved. However, as any mathematician will confirm, breaking...

Server virtualisation is held up by most vendors as a paragon of virtue when it comes to cutting costs and simplifying an organisation's IT resources. But whilst the first virtue is relatively easy to prove on a return on...

Virtualisation is almost certainly on the agenda for your IT resource, but what are the main problems that IT professionals come up against when implementing a virtual environment? It's clear that, with budgets remaining tight...

In a poor attempt to wreck Microsoft's Windows 7 launch, IBM and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu Linux, have joined forces to unleash an integrated cloud and Linux desktop package tailored for Netbooks and other low-end...

Virtualisation is not a new technology and has existed since the 1960s when IBM pioneered the first ‘full virtualisation’ CP/CMS operating system, providing virtual System/360 computer instances. However, arguably it...

This 5 page special report explains how to: 1. Enable your business to move to a cloud-based model of computing wherever and whenever you required it.2. Run any workload, from sub-second calculations to server applications to...

In a move that can be dubbed as a dead aim towards Microsoft, IBM on Thursday has announced a Linux-based virtual PC that is entirely Microsoft-free.  Teaming up with Canonical, IBM has announced an Ubuntu Linux-based...

In a bid to snare significant share in virtualisation market, IBM announced it snapped up Transitive Corp., a Los Gatos, California-based company, which specialises in cross-platform virtualisation technology. IBM said that the...