IBM Unveils Eco-friendly Project Green Data Centre

The import and export of defence and military related technologies is a sensitive issue that is subject to a variety of stringent regulations. Countries are so sensitive in this area due to the potential impact on national...

IBM and Sunderland City Council have come together to offer IT services to local authorities as well as businesses through a new cloud infrastructure developed by IBM and hosted at the data centre of the council. The new cloud...

IBM has introduced a series of new software products aimed at allowing organisations to speed up the deployment and help with the management of virtualisation. The Big Blue unveiled the four new...

IBM has declared its intentions to get its hands on even more government greenbacks with the launch of the Federal Community Cloud, a private cloud programme aimed at government organisations.The company is clearly betting...

We caught up with Charles Ferland, vice President of BLADE Network technologies to discuss about the company's plans, the strategic partnership it announced with IBM and the future of GbE networking technology worldwide. 1) Mr....

Intel today introduced the eight-core Xeon 7500 server chip, based on its Nehalem EX chip and built on a 45nm process. Intel said the chip represents the "biggest performance jump" its Xeon line has yet seen. The firm claims an...

Extending your IT resource into the cloud has become a lot more secure, as Steve Gold explains how businesses of all sizes can create a secure VPN between their physical IT storage and the cloud, allowing them access to...

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...

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 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...

Ask vendors for a definition, and you'll get one. But is the definition correct, or are vendors taking a narrow view of virtualisation that plays only to their strengths? And the majority of organisations see that they have...