A shift has taken place with companies running public, private and hybrid cloud. So said Jorg Liebe, chief information officer of Lufthansa Systems, during a session at VMworld Europe 2012. Headquartered in Kelsterbach, near ...
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Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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VMworld Europe 2012 has kicked off in Barcelona,with 11,000 attendees expected to descend on the Fira Gran Via over the next four days. VMware's annual European event was opened with keynotes from VMware senior executives giving an ...
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers' mobile devices – including Apple iPhones – securely. This will help enterprises regain control of IT amid growing ...
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Companies, including large multinationals that virtualise Oracle databases using VMware products, are finding it challenging to remain compliant with Oracle's complex licensing policies. Such lack of compliance is costing them millions in ...
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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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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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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Citrix Systems has released the latest version of its virtualisation platform XenServer.Version 6.1 features cloud integration capabilities and a storage feature called Storage XenMotion that will bring agility as it allows IT executives to ...
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Hitachi Data Systems(HDS)today introduced a new version of its Hitachi Unified Storage(HUS)array that allows file,block and object-based data to be stored through a single management interface. The HUS VM(virtual machine)array is aimed at ...
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Goldman Sachs is launching a new datacentre strategy to achieve higher cost savings and improved IT energy efficiency.The investment bank will replace its existing real estate-based datacentre infrastructure with modular datacentre ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...