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Data centre

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CA's circus evening show

  CA Technologies livened up the night at VMworld Europe 2010 by hiring circus performers to entertain attendees.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CommVault t-shirt

  Attendees got a good laugh from CommVault's witty t-shirts.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CloudPoint's cupcakes

  VMworld Europe attendees munched on specially-ordered cloud cupcakes from CloudPoint.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Thirsty work being a geek

  VMworld Europe attendees were treated to thousands of free soft drinks during the show.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing questions for enterprises to consider

  The IT director at a sports marketing agency discusses what businesses must ask themselves when preparing for cloud computing, along with why the cloud failed to meet his expectations in terms of disaster recovery.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Virtualisation and server consolidation

  The best user project in the virtualisation and server consolidation category improved application performance and simplified management.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Desktop virtualisation

  The top user project in the desktop virtualisation category utilised a variety of technologies to deliver the virtual desktop stack through various methods, including an array of device access types.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Remote-office/home-office virtualisation

  The best office virtualisation user project, home or remote, used solid-state drives and nested VMware ESX instances to push beyond VMware technology's official capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Virtualisation for disaster recovery

  The best virtualisation for disaster recovery user project improved availability and enabled semiannual failover and failback tests.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Winners slideshow

  Find out what user projects were voted to be the best in numerous cloud computing and virtualisation categories at VMworld Europe 2010.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Best of show

  The best of show at VMworld Europe 2010 is also the best office virtualisation project, a lab that runs eight virtual ESX hosts and nearly 60 virtual machines on just one physical server.  Continue Reading

• VMworld Europe 2010 conference coverage

  Check out all the latest news, award recaps and other resources from VMworld Europe 2010 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for October

  October 2010's highlights include the announcement of a new version of Citrix XenServer and the trends in managed hosting and server virtualisation from analysts at Ovum.  Continue Reading

• Fluid data management cure for storage headache at Galway University Hospitals

  Galway University Hospitals was suffering through serious storage issues, but implementing a virtualised storage solution from Compellent changed everything.  Continue Reading

• Bird & Bird keeps IT flying high with Neverfail

  The infrastructure manager at international law firm Bird & Bird shares how he avoids downtime with Neverfail.  Continue Reading

• All the news from VMworld 2010

  If you were stuck in the UK, here's everything you missed in San Francisco at VMware's VMworld 2010.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for September

  September's editions include IBM abandoning Verne Holding's Icelandic data centre and Novell unveiling SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.  Continue Reading

• Data centre strategies: Optimising IT infrastructures

  When optimising performance across application and service delivery platforms, especially with virtualisation involved, make sure you have the best data centre strategies in place.  Continue Reading

• The data centre boom: Finding the right site just got serious

  Our expert poses some basic, but important, tests of potential data centre sites, including location, connectivity and power, that companies should be aware of.  Continue Reading

• VDI: Venturing toward a virtual world

  A virtualised desktop infrastructure requires solid management capabilities, including understanding capacity planning, and choosing the correct platform, host hardware, and shared storage for your business needs.  Continue Reading

• Virtualised infrastructures in the data centre

  An industry expert discusses the key to a successful management strategy within a virtual infrastructure, including automation and holistic adoption.  Continue Reading

• Plan ahead and sweat your virtual assets

  Firms looking to decrease hardware demands by virtualising should keep a close eye on server growth, costs and workload flows across virtual machines, according to our expert.  Continue Reading

• Managing virtual environments: Common myths dispelled

  Our expert helps to dispel some common virtualisation misconceptions, including the idea that virtualisation guarantees improved performance.  Continue Reading

• The end of the physical server is nigh

  After virtualising non-critical business data, the next step away from physical servers is tackling greater risks to produce higher rewards, according to our expert.  Continue Reading

• Improving business resilience and continuity planning through virtualisation

  An IT service provider explains why well-planned best practices and the increased efficiencies of virtualisation technologies make it so easy to plan ahead for a disaster.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for August

  August's editions include an enterprise stamp of approval for Citrix's XenDesktop, UK energy policy driving away data centres and Dell's new HPC release.  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation management: Quick win, quick fall if you fail to plan ahead

  For some companies, going too fast from the testing phase of virtualisation to live production could be dangerous, according to an IT service provider.  Continue Reading

• How IT departments can prove their value in the wake of increased regulation

  Find out how the Carbon Reduction Commitment can enable an IT department to turn government legislation into cost savings.  Continue Reading

• Will you lose profit through the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme?

  Discover these practical steps on how to make the most of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, according to a data centre management consultancy.  Continue Reading

• The real value of virtualisation

  Discover how to fully realise the benefits and cost savings of virtualisation, including the importance of maximising energy efficiency and meeting IT project deadlines.  Continue Reading

• How to outsource your data centre and reduce emissions

  If you outsource your data centre and you're confused about how that impacts the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme, here are the requirements you need to know.  Continue Reading

• Why the Carbon Reduction Commitment is bad for data centres

  The Carbon Reduction Commitment will not significantly reduce our carbon emissions, and it will also threaten to stifle growth and innovation in a sector vital for our economic and environmental health, according to this managed hosting provider.  Continue Reading

• How to work with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

  With fewer resources and tighter budgets, here's how to do more for less alongside the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.  Continue Reading

• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme: How to be on track with I/O virtualisation

  The launch of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme means that companies are liable for their carbon output. How should data centres respond? I/O virtualisation is one solution.  Continue Reading

• Improving data centre power consumption and efficiency

  Following the opening of hosting provider PEER 1's new data centre in Toronto, the VP of data centre operations offers advice on why tackling energy issues should be a top priority in data centre planning.  Continue Reading

• Getting up to speed on desktop virtualisation and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

  According to the founder of analyst firm Freeform Dynamics, 2010 is not a bad time for businesses to get up to speed on VDI.  Continue Reading

• How to save money by saving energy

  A data centre expert explains the importance of building a green data centre and how to measure power usage efficiency.  Continue Reading

• A step-by-step guide to designing an effective data management strategy

  These four steps will help achieve an intuitive data management strategy and improved performance from a virtual environment.  Continue Reading

• FCoE and IOV: The future of infrastructure

  Understanding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and I/O virtualisation solutions will help administrators prepare for the virtual data centre of the future.  Continue Reading

• Virtual disaster recovery: How to take advantage

  Virtual disaster recovery is now a reality, but how can IT professionals take advantage? Find out how to get your systems up and running without investing in additional hardware or remote sites.  Continue Reading

• VDI: How to deliver environmentally sustainable IT

  Combining VDI and UC can drive down power consumption, introduce remote working and therefore reduce carbon footprint, according to this expert.  Continue Reading

• Mahindra & Mahindra's server virtualization success story

  M&M overcame many deployment challenges to harness VMware server virtualization technology for maximal server utilization and cost reduction.  Continue Reading

• Data center infrastructure: In-house hosting versus outsourcing

  Selection between in-house hosting and data center colocation is a complex decision for Indian organizations. What is the right infrastructure call?  Continue Reading

• Telephony and business join in unified communications

  Unified communications: Converged voice, data and video infrastructure services that integrate with business applications can help boost enterprise productivity  Continue Reading

• Converged networks: The VoIP revolution

  As the amount of voice traffic carried over the internet increases, Arif Mohamed investigates the pros and cons of moving voice and data networks to one converged network  Continue Reading

• Cisco's converged network vision has bandwidth for next 20 years

  Cisco's Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) is the company's attempt at building a network infrastructure that will allow voice, data...  Continue Reading