IDG News Service - IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a staggered affair that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a ...
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IT often virtualises new applications and workloads by default.Virtualisation is now the norm,deploying a physical server the exception.Yet,a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing ...
VMware has got eyes for storage.For a couple of years now the server virtualisation giant has incorporated useful features into its hypervisor to help manage shared storage. But now VMware wants more,and it is setting out a vision to ...
2012 has been a great year for the global security industry. This is especially true for many PSIM vendors who have seen their busiest year to date. We catch up with Keith Bloodworth, CEO of CNL Software, one of the world’s leading ...
Tags: PSIM, Market Predictions, 2013
SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. Certified modules include ERP (enterprise resource ...
According to an expert estimate made by the Russian Special Steel and Alloys Consumers and Suppliers Association,in the January to September period of this year Russia's stainless steel product output decreased by 11.6%compared to the same ...
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University deploys Violin flash storage array Anglia Ruskin University has implemented a Violin 3000 Series flash storage array to support a project to virtualise nearly 1,000 desktops for 32,000 students. The virtual desktop ...
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Viruses targeting virtual machines (VM) are growing in numbers and will soon be the dominant force in the world of cyber crime. Speaking at this week’s SNW Europe conference in Frankfurt, Joe Llewelyn, head of global sales training ...
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Advanced analysis of the Morcut Mac OS X malware that targets computers running Apple’s Mac operating system (OS) or Microsoft’s Windows OS has revealed that it also targets virtual machines and Windows mobiles. The malware, ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Windows Azure customers will be able to use Linux-based operating systems, open source tools and languages for the first time now that Microsoft Azure officially supports those offerings. The move to support Linux and open source ...
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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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Computerworld - Clustered storage vendor Scale Computing today upgraded its scale-out storage cluster to include compute resources dedicated to applications and a hypervisor component that allows storage and memory to be easily managed and ...
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Computerworld - Symantec Tuesday announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
Tags: Fred Abounader, performance systems, flash storage array