Server virtualisation platforms and management
Get news and technical advice on virtualisation platforms, virtualisation management and strategy. Our resources weigh the pros and cons of virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer) in light of your datacentre requirements and offer step-by-step guidance on virtualisation management tasks, such as installing Hyper-V or VMware, monitoring, troubleshooting and securing virtual machines, P2V, V2P, V2V migration, desktop virtualisation strategies, and more.
How to keep your datacentre energy costs down
Take a look at some of the outside influences that could potentially impact on datacentre power and management costs in the years to come, also discover some of the latest thinking and best practices around datacentre energy efficiency and cooling today.
News : Server virtualisation platforms and management
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January 20, 2020
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Jan'20
Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north
Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north
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January 14, 2020
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Jan'20
What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?
Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?
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January 06, 2020
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Jan'20
A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending
The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation"
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December 27, 2019
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Dec'19
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
In Depth : Server virtualisation platforms and management
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Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre
The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
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Uptime and availability: Making sense of supplier SLAs
Enterprises need to read the fine print of supplier service-level agreements (SLA) or risk finding themselves caught short during downtime incidents Continue Reading
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SAN vs NAS vs hyper-converged for virtual machine storage
The pros and cons of file and block access storage arrays vs the new breed of all-in-one server/storage architecture for storage of virtual machine systems and data Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Server virtualisation platforms and management
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How To Save IT From Drowning In Its Own Self-Containerised World (and other stories)
Anyone out there right now could be more than excused for thinking we're drowning in security start-ups; too many "me too" vendors trying to resolve the same perceived problems - niche or broad. ... Continue Reading
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The Express Route to a hybrid Azure platform
The recent launch of Microsoft's Azure Stack platform provides a means for organisations to create a far more flexible and consistent hybrid private/public cloud environment. However, unless the ... Continue Reading
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Desktop virtualisation dilemmas: Solving the VDI blame game
In this guest post, Kevin Cooke, product director at desktop virtualisation software provider Liquidware Labs, explains how CIOs and IT departments can avoid playing the blame game when working out ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Server virtualisation platforms and management
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Security Think Tank: In the cloud, the buck stops with you
Misconfigured cloud environments are increasingly identified as the source of damaging data breaches and leaks, raising serious questions for enterprises. Where does responsibility for data security in the cloud lie, and how can security professionals best work with their teams and cloud providers to resolve the problem? Continue Reading
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The rise of the ODMs: Should the branded hardware suppliers be worried?
The use of ODM datacentre hardware makes good economic sense for the hyperscale providers, but what about everyday enterprises? Continue Reading
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Multi-cloud management: Making it work for the enterprise
As the hype surrounding multi-cloud infrastructure continues to grow, what do enterprises need to do to make the model work for them? Continue Reading
Videos : Server virtualisation platforms and management
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2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in the APAC converged/hyper-converged market
Find out what converged/hyper-converged initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017
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Why Fitness First consolidated onto Nutanix
Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to a Nutanix converged infrastructure
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Video interview: Richard Godfrey, Peterborough City Council on local government IT challenges
Peterborough has become a big user of software as a service for council services. We speak to its head of IT, Richard Godfrey on going cloud first