VMware today announced its intention to buy Nicira for $1.05bn. VMware already dominates the server virtualisation market, but with this latest buy is looking towards a stronger play in networking, thanks to Nicira’s focus on ...
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As data volumes grow, virtualising the infrastructure helps a business streamline its processes, reduce its hardware footprint and manage costs. But without an apt data backup and recovery strategy, a virtual environment can’t be ...
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And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
Brocade today announced support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 server operating system across all product lines, including the company’s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and Ethernet fabric solutions. ...
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CommVault has announced Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, a software product for automating snapshot management and application-aware recovery. The introduction comes as the company attempts to support recovery of critical ...
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German office supplies manufacturer Sigel GmbH used storage virtualisation to improve the performance of its VMware-based virtual servers and its Oracle database systems. Sigel also cut costs with its storage hypervisor technology. ...
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Windows as a service Citrix helps SMEs cope with proliferation and remote support Citrix's position in an evolving and competitive market Virtual Microsoft Widows: A hostage to fortune? Budgets remain tight at enterprise end of market ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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At VMworld in Barcelona yesterday, VMware executives fleshed out the company's software-defined datacentre vision of storage virtualised from the server hypervisor. This will provide pools of data capacity in native virtual disk format ...
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) used his keynote presentation at VMworld Europe in Barcelona to unveil how the virtualisation company would build software-defined datacentres using IT management and automation tools. "We need to make ...
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A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres, with more than half looking to deploy 100Gb ethernet by 2016 to improve input/output ...
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Organisations are struggling to cope with increasing datacentre complexity according to a global survey of 2,453 IT professionals from Symantec. The vast majority(79%)of organisations globally said their datacentres were getting more ...
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Change in approach to the network Ethernet fabrics Software-defined networking Combining Ethernet fabrics and SDN to cut complexity In an age of innovation in the technology industry,we are blessed with new infrastructure on what feels ...
Tags: Network Complexity, Ethernet Fabrics, SDN, Brocade, networking