Archive for September, 2007
Does virtualization make things less complex?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=245 When I’ve had a chance to speak with executives of suppliers of virtual machine software, they often point out that one of the major benefits of deploying application environments inside of virtual machines is simplicity. That is, they suggest that using virtual machine software reduces complexity in the environment. While that might be true [...]
What’s a blade server then?
http://sixty94956.blogspot.com/2007/09/blade-servers-and-how-they-effect-your.html Welcome to Blade Server 101, where we will teach you the ins and outs of what a blade server is and how its use can lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for any business. First of all, what is a blade server? The best way to answer that question is to compare it [...]
UBS on DataSynapse for application virtualization
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/126590/ubs-virtualises-application-infrastructure.html Financial services firm, UBS has added flexibility and reduced the cost of running complex, computing intensive applications using application virtualisation. The company dynamically allocates processing resource across its global IT infrastructure to support its bespoke risk management applications. Andrew Morgan, UBS application architect and development manager said the company’s focus on complex financial services [...]
Sun continues to innovate in the x86 market
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/sun_x86_play/ The fresh Xeon-based servers from Sun mark the company’s most muscular play to date in the x86 realm. The four-socket 2U X4450, in particular, has Sun pushing the equivalent of a midrange SMP down into the heart of the so-called “commodity†market. This move plays well with Sun’s historic strengths in the SMP (symmetric [...]
Dell to go carbon neutral?
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2199788/dell-sets-carbon-neutral-plans Dell has announced plans to neutralise the carbon impact of its worldwide operations. “Never before in the history of business have we seen such a critical need to build a worldwide community dedicated to improving the environment,” said chairman Michael Dell at a policy forum organised by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. [...]
ABN deal getting closer?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e710e112-6c6f-11dc-a0cf-0000779fd2ac.html Royal Bank of Scotland has cleared one of the final remaining hurdles in its break-up bid for ABN Amro by raising more than €6bn (£4.2bn) through an issue of preference shares. But in spite of strong interest from investors, the pricing of the issue, believed to be the largest ever by a bank, underlines [...]
What do I want?
One of my friends who works for one of the banks was having a chat with me, he was telling me about work, what was going well with their virtualization project, what wasn’t, what the key issues technical and non-technical, it was very interesting. Over dinner he then asked me what I thought about these [...]
VirtualShield 4.0 announced
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070926005274&newsLang=en CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blue Lane Technologies today announced the October 5th general availability of VirtualShield 4.0, the first VM security solution to deliver real-time network flow visibility and security by protocol, operating system, application and VM cluster. The latest version of the award-winning VirtualShield features VirtualFlowâ„¢ Center console management, integration with the VMware VirtualCenter, template-based [...]
Can I grid my virtual server estate?
http://www.macresearch.org/computing_grid_in_a_box_with_an_8_core_mac_pro Of course an 8-core Mac Pro is nice for “mine is bigger than yours” taunts, however if you’re going to spend the money to buy a machine with 8-cores and 16 GB of RAM you better figure out how you are going to use all that horsepower. In a previous article I demonstrated how [...]
Time to switch off gaps39393?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/26/Ghost-servers-that-haunt-your-bottom-line_1.html The problem may not rival the movies Poltergeist or The Amityville Horror for sheer terror, but CIOs and datacenter managers are still well advised to deal decisively with so-called ghost servers. Like celluloid zombies, these forgotten pieces of equipment are dead when it comes to improving the bottom line, but they are very much [...]
