Archive for December, 2009
Some words on Verari
http://www.verari.com Verari has initiated a process that will protect our customers investment and benefit our creditors as we restructure the business. The intention is to safeguard customers investment and provide an ongoing support capability. There are several options that are being considered to provide solutions to our customers. We expect to have the new plan [...]
Virtualization for high availability
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1861005 SANTA CLARA » 12/10/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced today that Rankin County, which ranks among the top 10 percent of fastest-growing U.S. counties, has deployed Citrix® XenServer™ to upgrade, consolidate and maintain the county’s server infrastructure. XenServer is an open and powerful server virtualization solution that helps reduce datacenter costs by transforming [...]
Desktop virtualization for education makes sense
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1860988 SANTA CLARA » 12/9/2009 » An annual higher education survey conducted by Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), found desktop virtualization gaining ground as an important technology solution for colleges and universities. Eighty-two percent of approximately 200 higher education IT professionals expressed a clear interest in adding desktop virtualization to their institution’s virtualization profile. The survey [...]
Demand for qualified virtualization teams continues
An article talking about the demand for trained and certified staff to help supply the demand for virtualization professionals, an interesting topic, do check it out. I wonder if the virtualization training offerings include any of the analysis, best practice or how to do it operationally? I’m off to read up more.
Reviewing Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S5
A review of the Fujitsu Pimergy RX200 S5 server, I confess that I haven’t used Fujitsu servers before, but it is always interesting to read about different vendors servers and see what others think, do check it out.
IT sector to recover in 2010
http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=20883 IT pros expect banking to be hot job sector in 2010 Around half of IT professionals think the banking sector will be the most fertile ground for job hunting next year, according to a survey from UK recruitment site IT Job Board. I can see that the market is already recovering in many respects, there are a [...]
Get out of IT and into the business world
I was having a chat with a start up, they have been working on a management interface to further enable management of virtual and physical servers independently of the server vendor. Anyway, they were asking if there was anything to think about in this space, how could they get investment and interest for their product. [...]
Dell continues the innovation
http://media-newswire.com/release_1107949.html Dell introduced new infrastructure management, storage and networking solutions and services designed to help customers simplify, standardize and automate their datacenters. Dell is delivering on its vision for the datacenter, which allows customers to create a flexible infrastructure that can be dynamically orchestrated. With 10GbE as the underlying fabric, along with integrated and heterogeneous [...]
MySpace moves towards Solid-State Drive technology
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/myspace-ssd MySpace and Fusion-io recently announced they are working together to reduce costs associated with datacenter operations. Using Fusion-io’s ioDrive solid-state disks MySpace replaced 150 of their standard load servers, and reduced the headcount of their heavy load servers from 80 to 30. Overall the companies report in a white-paper published recently a reduction of [...]
Virtualization in education works
Check out this article talking about how this school in the north of Houston, Texas has implemented a range of virtualization technologies to modernize their IT and in doing so, achieving significant savings in time, cost and energy. I can remember my school IT experience was always pretty poor, slow computers which not all the [...]
