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Cloudyn launching hosted service to monitor and optimise AWS usage

Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimise that usage in order to cut costs.
CloudPassage launches firewall and authentication for cloud servers

CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.
Red Hat releases 3rd version of RHEV virtualisation software

Red Hat has released the third version of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation RHEV virtualisation software package, which includes improvements that would make it suitable for larger deployments, and a new console for self-provisioning.
Atlantis Computing announces new VDI using only server memory

Atlantis Computing is offering a software product that uses only server memory to run non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructures.
Amazon offers free cloud instance with Windows Server

Enterprises can now run Windows Server in Amazon's cloud for up to 750 hours per month at no charge, using the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Free Usage Tier, the company said on Sunday.
Amazon introduces Elastic Network Interfaces for cloud instances

Amazon Web Services has introduced Elastic Network Interfaces, which are attached to instances in a private cloud to allow for more flexibility when configuring the system.
Google's cloud platform App Engine exits experimental stage

The latest version of Google's SDK (software development kit) for its cloud platform App Engine includes the High-Replication Datastore, which has been generally available, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.
Mobile Fusion to succeed BES in RIM tablets and smartphones

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced yesterday, isn't just Research In Motion's first entry in the race to manage enterprises' whole mobile environments - it's also positioned by RIM to ultimately succeed the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Amazon Web Services gets integrated status monitoring

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) management tool will from now on tell users about upcoming scheduled operational activities that will affect the availability of its cloud, the company said in blog post on Thursday.
Amazon Web Services adds supercomputing service to its cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, its most powerful cloud service yet.

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Virtual firewall sprawl - Managing the unmanageable

Cloud firewall management vendors unleash new wares aimed to taming virtual firewall sprawl.
Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centres are not a perfect solution

A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centres instead of hot-cold data centres. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their data centres to take care of disaster needs. If one data centre suffered from a disaster, the other data centre would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.
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.
OpenStack proving the juggernaut of open source cloud efforts

The OpenStack collaborative industry effort to build an open source cloud platform is to be applauded for the remarkable gains it has achieved in a short amount of time.
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.
Avoid VM stall, the scourge of virtualisation projects

Virtualising and consolidating data centre servers provides such clear a financial benefit that there are few companies of any size, in any industry, that shouldn't virtualise at least some of their servers and applications, industry analysts say.
Desktop virtualisation: How to succeed

If you've already virtualised the servers in your data centre, desktop virtualisation may seem like the next logical step. But businesses are finding that the benefits of hosted virtual desktop technologies are more nuanced. The advantages may be harder to quantify and harder to justify based purely on traditional ROI calculations.
Five key pieces of advice for private cloud success

Companies building private clouds mainly to keep developers from going to public clouds are too focused on the physical aspects of cloud and missing the point about the operational requirements, says Forrester Research's James Staten. Here, he shares five pieces of advice for private cloud success.
Top five predictions: How virtual networking will change the network industry

The industry reached a "virtual" tipping point in 2009 when, according to IDC, the number of newly installed virtual machines surpassed the number of newly installed physical servers. This inflection point is having a profound impact on how we manage, secure and provision IT resources. No doubt the network will look completely different in just a few years too, but here are five predictions for how virtualisation will change networking in 2011.

How-tos

Virtualisation security and how best to achieve it

How to transition IT infrastructure from physical to virtual

How to build a solid server virtualisation foundation

How to set up a virtual server

How to make your network green and energy efficient

How to manage virtual machine performance

Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

How to keep your data centre running over the holidays

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Reaping the benefits of end-to-end desktop virtualization deployments

Flexible delivery models, together with expert consulting and support services for Dell? Desktop Virtualization Solutions, help IT decision makers cut cost, complexity, and risk?accelerating enterprise-wide efficiency gains through tuned and tested deployments across a broad range of enterprise use cases.
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Virtual infrastructure presents a distinct set of management challenges. Traditional management tools aren?t as useful for virtual infrastructure as some might want to believe, especially when dealing with heterogeneous environments.
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More than 41,000 customers around the world, and nearly half of the Global 500, rely on HP Data Protector software to protect their critical applications and data. Data Protector simplifies application protection through unified recovery and advanced automation. Global, one-touch backup configuration and a wide range of disk-based recovery options across HP and non-HP arrays, including fully-automated down-to-the-second application recovery, help you meet any SLA for up to 70% less cost than competitive backup software solutions.
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