Few parts of the world house data centres that require air conditioning, and operators need to "push the envelope a little harder" to stop using it. This is the view fo Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain at ...
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Data centres can help change the world for the better, by allowing organisations across all sectors access to cheap intelligence and data modelling. That's according to Neela Jacques, senior cloud strategist for VMware speaking as part of ...
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Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy and allow it to better support ...
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When Cancer Research UK picked VMware to virtualise its infrastructure, the organisation's head of infrastructure, Mick Briggs, believed that "there wasn't really much other choice". Further reading Customer perspective: Jaguar Land Rover ...
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EMC today announced advances in its VNX line of midrange storage, which will now be built for flash first, and new capabilities for its VXPEX Proven Architecture portfolio. The storage giant also revealed that its software-defined storage ...
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VMware says enterprises migrating to Microsoft Windows 7 can save a bundle by using?virtual-desktop infrastructure technology?rather than standalone PCs. VMware group marketing manager Ridwan Hug, speaking at last week's VMworld ...
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The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. While VMware's new NSX network hypervisor has sent ...
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The introduction of Rackspace's hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor. As enterprises move IT infrastructure out of their own data centers, ...
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If?Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC. In the VMware sponsored whitepaper,?Vision 2020: ...
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Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia's growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments. Nvidia's Grid boards consist of multiple graphics ...
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With an update to its Foglight for Virtualisation software package, Dell can now help organizations rid their systems of resource-sucking zombie virtual machines.? "It's so easy to create VMs. We have customers creating thousands and ...
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Apple’s innovation problems were highlighted today when Forbes published its 2013 list of the world’s most innovative companies and ranked Apple at No. 79. Apple’s plummet has been dramatic. In 2011, the first year ...
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The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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Global studio firm Pinewood Studios Group, whose facilities have been used to create blockbusters such as Skyfall, has selected virtualisation management solution provider Veeam's back-up software to save time and ensure that their data is ...
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Seeking a foothold in more enterprises running Microsoft software, Novell has introduced an application to streamline the process of connecting employees to workspace printers, even if they are using non-Microsoft computers and mobile ...
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