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Pure Storage debuts next-gen flash array with high-availability option

Pure Storage today announced the second generation of its all-flash array, which can now be configured for high availability.
Virtualise the rest of the data centre, VMware recommends at Interop

VMware have recommended organisations follow up server virutalisation and virtualise the rest of the data centre and - including the network.
Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G Ethernet to core switches

Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.
Government's CRC scheme boosts data centre energy management

Almost three-quarters of data centres now have energy management policies in place ? a massive leap since before the launch of the government?s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme in 2010.
Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support

Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack.
HDS releases converged computing platform for SAP

Hitachi Data Systems plans to release its latest flavour of Converged Platform data centre offerings aimed at analysing massive amounts of data in SAP environments.
Symantec updates flagship storage, high availability suites

In order to provide greater private cloud capabilities, Symantec announced new product versions of Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1 and eight other products.
Microsoft to offer live VM migration with Windows Server 8

With the next release of Windows Server operating system, Microsoft has conquered one of the thorniest problems in virtualisation: moving an operational virtual machine across a wide area network.
Server virtualisation sees storage demand soar

In 2001, VMware delivered its first virtualisation products for x86 servers, setting off what has become one of today's biggest tech trends. But the benefits of virtualisation, particularly its ability to allow users to rapidly provision new workloads, are pushing demand for storage to new highs.
Oracle VM 3.0 update boosts performance and policy management

Oracle has updated its server virtualisation software with greater policy control and more connectors for storage systems.

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Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
Next-generation server virtualisation

Virtualisation has swept the enterprise and its success has driven new innovation in hardware, software and security practices, as IT organisations demand greater performance, manageability and security from their virtualised infrastructure.
Is mobile virtualisation ready for the business prime-time?

New ideas in IT go through a long distillation process. Someone invents the idea, vendors talk about new product concepts, analysts weigh in on the value. Eventually, a new category of hardware or software materialises, but rarely in a fully formed state. With mobile virtualisation, the pedigree is sound: Most organisations use some form of server virtualisation in their data centres.
Storage virtualisation

Server virtualisation places significant new demands on traditional storage, says Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. ?The standard storage architecture was originally designed for monolithic mainframes?not the abstraction and pooling of resources.?
Designing and building the infrastructure for the next generation IT

Enterprises and their customers increasingly expect business services to be available and responsive at any time, requiring the underlying technology infrastructure to be ?always on- always available?. The themes currently driving technology trends for 2012 share this common goal of highly available and pervasive computing.
The next frontier in virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.
Ten top strategies for starting a server virtualisation project

The benefits of server virtualisation are so significant at this point that implementing it is a no-brainer.
Seven reasons to consider virtualisation

Both server virtualisation and desktop virtualisation use a software core called a hypervisor to run multiple operating systems on the same physical server hardware. Each OS is kept separate, with resources dedicated as needed.
Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
SAN/LAN convergence can pay dividends today

Today's workers want faster computing speeds and more storage, management wants it all under budget, and IT professionals are scrambling to save money and improve productivity. The tools of choice to achieve these goals are typically virtualisation, cloud computing and data centre consolidation, but IT may be overlooking a simple but effective fix: storage area network (SAN) and local area network (LAN) convergence.

How-tos

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How to build a solid server virtualisation foundation

How to set up a virtual server

How to minimise server consolidation mistakes

How to make your network green and energy efficient

How not to build a cloud

How to virtualise and consolidate servers

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Unified storage: one platform for block, file and object

Despite the weak world economy, the market for storage subsystems is not showing any indications of slowing down. It shrunk a little in 2009 but fully recovered in 2010 and 2011. The major impact on storage market was the wide adoption of server virtualisation, which accelerated storage networking deployment decisions by many small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and the increased growth of unstructured data in organisation.
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Virtualisation: benefits, challenges and solutions

The majority of organisations have already implemented server virtualisation and most intend to implement additional server virtualisation during the next year. The primary factors driving the movement to deploy server virtualisation are cost savings and the ability to dynamically provision and move VMs among physical servers. There are however, a number of significant challenges associated with server virtualisation.
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Desktop virtualisation insights for IT strategic planning

While most industry buzz about virtualisation has centered on servers, IT organisations have also kept their sights on the potential benefits of desktop virtualisation. With server virtualisation now a mainstream IT practice, download this white paper to find out about the key drivers and benefits of desktop virtualisation and also ways of how you can measure the return on investment (ROI).
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The future of enterprise computing

Server virtualisation together with the cloud are creating a future for enterprise computing in which access to information via a variety of devices from any location at any time will be mission-critical. With these changes comes a growth of complexity in the management of technology and security.
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Overcoming the challenges of server virtualisation

Virtualisation creates changes in the server room that present new challenges to the power and cooling infrastructure, with implications to both effectiveness and efficiency. Download this white paper to find out more about the effects of the optimised power and cooling infrastructure, both as it meets the technical challenges of virtualisation and as it delivers general performance benefits.
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