Archive for October, 2008
NHS sees virtualization as an enabler
Business Review Online Dorset HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust (DHFT) is looking to server and storage consolidation and virtualisation to improve infrastructure costs, with a more energy efficient data centre that meets green IT imperatives whilst future-proofing application flexibility. The Trust has appointed healthcare IT specialist CSA Waverley to consolidate and virtualise its server and storage [...]
Fujitsu and their new SPARC T5440 server
SDA Asia Fujitsu Limited and Sun Microsystems jointly announced the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, the first server to deliver the scalability and reliability of traditional midrange systems with the performance and radical energy efficiency of the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, with up to 32 cores (256 threads) and 512 GB [...]
What’s in store for the Mac Mini?
Slashgear Reports of the Mac mini’s death have been wildly over-stated, according to the latest rumors coming out of macminicolo. While many believed Apple had quietly dropped development of the compact desktop PC, with shipments recently being curtailed, report author Brian Stucki suggests that in actual fact consistent and stable commercial sales of the mini [...]
Deciding about going to VMworld Europe
VMworld Europe From the datacenter to the desktop, virtualization is having an increasingly profound impact on information technology design and management. Now in its second year, VMworld Europe will continue to set the virtualization agenda, inspiring all IT professionals looking for actionable ideas, innovative products and best practices for virtualizing your enterprise. I got the [...]
Critical Microsoft patch today?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-oct.mspx Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 22, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletin to be issued: October 23, 2008 This is an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on October 23, 2008. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised October bulletin summary on October 23, [...]
Healthcare could benefit from virtualization
Health IT Insight Virtualization investment is on the rise across the healthcare marketplace. National and regional healthcare providers and payers are deploying both server and desktop virtualization solutions to manage their IT operations with more efficiency, security, mobility and transparency. For virtualization vendors, now is the time to get in front of the IT executives [...]
Introducing Hyper-V
Microsoft Title: Clinic 5935: Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 Course Type: Self-paced Course Available Offline: Yes Estimated Time of Completion: 2 Hours Language: English Description: This 2-hour online clinic provides IT Professionals experienced in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Hyper-V in an IT [...]
Cutting IT costs – the cost of doing business
Techtarget.com ORLANDO, Fla. — Cutting costs is “never an activity with long lead times,” Gartner Inc. guru Ellen Kitzis said at Symposium/ITxpo 2008 in Orlando. Kitzis, a research vice president at the Stamford, Conn.-based consultancy, teamed up with colleagues at a packed 8 a.m. panel to give CIOs a roadmap to trim costs. Check out [...]
Innovation and competition in virtualization must continue
Eweek VMware CEO Paul Maritz said that despite Microsoft entering the virtualization market with its Hyper-V product earlier this year, VMware has not seen much of an impact on its sales. Maritz made those observations after VMware announced its third-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street expectations. In the next few months, Maritz said VMware [...]
Sun aids Data Center Management challenges
Sun Sun Microsystems Announces Suite Of Professional Services For Three Phases Of Datacenter Management: Strategy, Design And Build Sun Consultants Align IT and Facilities Stakeholders To Develop Flexible and Cost-Efficient Datacenters SANTA CLARA, CALIF. October 22, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, [...]
