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  • Why software-defined security is essential in a virtualised environment

    Virtualisation is widely accepted to be the most effective way to improve efficiency and reduce running costs in the data centre. But the issues of security and compliance within a virtualised environment continue to make many enterprise IT managers nervous about the technology.

  • The impact of the 'Internet of Things' on corporate IT

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is a broad concept plotting to make vast amounts of the physical world interactive, IP-enabled, and ?smart?, according to Forrester Research analyst Andrew Rose.

  • Software-defined networking: one to watch in 2013

    Software defined networking (SDN) has been pegged as one of the major enterprise IT trends for the next few years, with analyst firm IDC predicting the worldwide market to grow from $360 million in 2013 to $3.7 billion by 2016.

  • How Windows 8 threatens to undermine Software Assurance

    Sean Robinson, MD of License Dashboard, explains how critical changes to Windows 8 licensing is undermining the assurance of Software Assurance, and what organisations must do to ensure they remain compliant when implementing virtualisation and BYOD.

  • Why SDN will accelerate COTS adoption in the networking industry

    Software-defined networking (SDN) is a game changer for adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology in the network industry.

  • Dealing with key trends during an IT disaster recovery

    Cloud services, virtualisation, BYOD and social CRM are key factors influencing disaster recovery. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a while, it's vital that companies have in place a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

  • 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.?

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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

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