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Datacentre systems management

• June 25, 2010 25 Jun'10

  Sun shines on Oracle's 25% rise in Q4 profits

  The purchase of Sun Microsystems in January is cited for sparking a large jump in Oracle's latest profits; plus more daily news.

• June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10

  World Cup player's downtime inspires free VMware uptime

  The injuries keeping Greek defender Vangelis Moras off the World Cup field spur hosting company StratoGen to give away VMware services; plus more daily news.

• June 15, 2010 15 Jun'10

  Data centre design: Guide to the requirements gathering process

  Compiling data centre requirements is a crucial part of design. Always know what your vendor and reseller are looking for.

• June 11, 2010 11 Jun'10

  How to license a virtual environment

  Find out how to maximise savings and deal with the licensing conundrum that is the virtual world.

• May 21, 2010 21 May'10

  Rackspace brings Xen-based cloud to the UK: News roundup

  VMware and Google integrate cloud computing and GoogleApps; Citrix and Amazon team up for software in the cloud; and other news of the week.

• May 20, 2010 20 May'10

  VMware best practices: Benefits of a virtual vCenter

  Why our expert advocates virtualising vCenter and the whopping automation patching "gotcha" at the heart of doing so.

• April 01, 2010 01 Apr'10

  Indian Railways' crew management system: A home-bred success story

  One of CRIS' most commendable projects, Indian Railways' Crew Management System (CMS) owes its success to robust server infrastructure. A closer look.

• March 12, 2010 12 Mar'10

  Citrix XenApp6 to offer more centralised management for virtualised applications: News Roundup

  Red Hat JBoss for Camden Council; VMware shops now eligible for free SpringSource tc Server licenses; and more news of the week.

• March 05, 2010 05 Mar'10

  Gradwell's system downtime issues solved with HP blade servers and VMware revamp

  After an IT system failure, telephony service provider Gradwell turned to HP to regain the confidence of its customers, avoid future outages and system downtime.

• February 26, 2010 26 Feb'10

  Misuse of VDI: Citrix on how to make your desktop virtual

  Citrix drops the marketing hype and explains which virtual desktop strategy works best for which type of user, along with why the term VDI should be buried when deciding how to make your desktops virtual.

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  Cisco and Magirus hook up to sell complete virtual platform

  IT managers can purchase a complete virtual platform through a Magirus VAR, thanks to a new partnership with Cisco.

• December 23, 2009 23 Dec'09

  Forbes Marshall's journey towards desktop virtualization

  Learn how Forbes Marshall is using desktop virtualization to centralize data management.

• November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09

  Five signs that data centre automation is right for your business

  Data centre automation simplifies management of today's complex IT systems. In this interview, an expert talks about how data centre automation can streamline processes and add business value.

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  HP's 3Com acquisition: Does it make a difference for you?

  Will HP acquiring 3Com make a significant difference for HP's corporate users in India? We spoke to a couple of system integrators for a closer look.

• October 26, 2009 26 Oct'09

  Unix and Linux IBM users set to benefit from QLogic FCoE

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity on IBM Power Systems is expected to reduce power consumption as Big Blue integrates QLogic's single-chip 8100 Series converged network adapters.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 released and more news of the week

  Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 released; University of Arts selects A10 Networks for Web services; tailored carbon footprint tool available through nlyte Software; and more.

• October 08, 2009 08 Oct'09

  HP, Cisco compromise on virtual Ethernet port aggregator (VEPA) standard

  HP and Cisco have compromised on a virtual network switch standard called virtual Ethernet port aggregator (VEPA), which will manage communications in virtualised data centres without changing the standard Ethernet format. IEEE 802.1 will vote on ...

• July 30, 2009 30 Jul'09

  BT Global Services offers virtual data centre services

  Several previous attempts at on-demand computing and application services never got off the ground. But virtual data centres could be born aloft cloud computing, claims BT.

• July 23, 2009 23 Jul'09

  U.K. data centre management challenges include people, power and tools

  New reports say that the CIO is expensively undervalued, despite the business transformation CIOs can bring. But giving CIOs the technology tools may not solve the problem.