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Quest goes private in $2 billion stock buyback

Enterprise software vendor Quest Software is becoming a private company, and is also seeking a buyer, the company announced Friday.
RightScale to offer OpenStack and SoftLayer cloud services

RightScale is adding OpenStack and SoftLayer to the list of cloud services that can be managed from its RightScale Cloud Management Platform.
Dell signs partnership with Netuitive for virtual analytics

Dell has filled the last big hole in its virtualisation stack through a partnership with Netuitive, which makes analytics software for managing virtual infrastructure, Netuitive and industry analysts have confirmed.
IBM, HP, Intel and Red Hat sign up to promote open source virtualisation

Several big IT vendors, including IBM, HP, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, are banding together to promote an open source virtualisation platform as an alternative to VMware.
BMC launches performance tuning for IBM DB2 database on mainframes

BMC's new tools for IBM's DB2 version 10 take advantage of the System z zIIP co-processor.
BMC and Cisco team up to deliver new cloud platform

BMC and Cisco have formed a new partnership to offer a new platform for service providers
Mainframe computing central to business, says BMC survey

Mainframes are alive and well within businesses, surviving the recession and helping businesses cut costs in spite of growing data volumes.
NetApp improves storage efficiency offering

NetApp has released a new version of its SANscreen management product
BMC buys tech automation company

BMC has bought Phuraace Software to beef up its cloud portfolio.
Green data centre generates solar power

A large data centre co-location provider in the US is starting an ambitious project to cover its roof in solar panels.

Latest Features

Does VMware have a real future?

Price is a big weakness when every player in the virtualisation market is offering a good-enough free option.
The best way to maximise server uptime

In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime.
Ice balls help data centre go green

Green isn't usually the first colour that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 degrees. But that's exactly where I/O Data Center has opened a 180,000-square-foot commercial data centre collocation facility that couples an energy-efficient design with the use of innovative green technologies. Those range from an unusual set-up for its air handlers to its server-rack design.
The life and death of a virtual machine

If IT managers aren?t careful, the failure to manage virtual machines throughout their life cycles could erase virtualisation?s benefits.
For management software, it's automate in 08

IT management software makers will make 2008 the year of automation technology.
Challenging the agent overload

Software agents, long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices, have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments.
Dashboards: The key to net management

Integrated management dashboards can save you money and are spurring technology partnerships, but they need planning and they're not to be embarked upon lightly.
Those incredible shrinking servers

When it coms to virtualisation, no matter what your strategy or goals, you still have a problem. How do you even know what's out there to consolidate?
Can VMware's open standards moves halt Microsoft?

Microsoft is coming -- this much virtualisation market leader VMware knows. But the company, led by Diane Greene, seems to know exactly how to stave off the software giant. But is it enough?
Managing virtual machines

As virtualisation leaves development labs and into production servers, some administrators are finding that the growth of virtual servers is getting ahead of the tools available to effectively manage them.

How-tos

How to keep your virtual machine estate under control

How to manage multivendor virtualisation

Case Study: HSBC goes virtual

Case Study: Managing the virtual realm

Case Study: Managing VOIP effectively

Network management frameworks

Users find dual roles for management tools

How to get to utility computing

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Featured White Papers

Unifying systems management in complex IT environments

Cloud computing platforms require transforming data centers to enable dynamic, scalable use of resources and the tools for flexible systems management. The Dell? Advanced Infrastructure Manager and BMC Atrium® Orchestrator tools are up to the task.
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The 'how-to' guide for creating a successful cloud

This compelling white paper outlines the 3 key steps to cloud planning and design: service design, operations definition, and business planning; ultimately arming your business with the tools to make decisions, set expectations and implement a successful cloud plan.
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Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

This paper discusses the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and reviews an incremental approach and examines the criteria for selecting consulting services.
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Data Center Automation, Q2 2008

HP Is The Unified Data Center Automation Front-Runner; BladeLogic And BMC
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The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation

Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.
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