The adoption of server virtualisation continues to accelerate as organisations continue to consolidate physical servers in an effort to rein …
Promise in public clouds
SNIA’s recent survey suggests that many companies are currently using or planning to use public cloud storage offerings in North …
Riverbed acquires Zeus
Riverbed is gearing up to take on F5 Networks and Citrix in speeding up application delivery with the purchase of …
CIOs believe desktop virtualisation remains risky: Ovum
Research firm Ovum has released a new report into the perception CIOs have of desktop virtualisation and an immature market …
VMware leading virtualisation market: V-Index survey
VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58% of organisations that use x86 virtualisation software, with Citrix and Microsoft’s Hyper-V splitting …
Silver Peak introduces pay-as-you-go WAN optimisation
Silver Peak is pushing to deploy its WAN optimisation software on a broad range of network devices such as generic …
Aerohive updates its 802.11n WLAN software
Aerohive Networks has released new wireless LAN software, with new mobile device management and spectrum analysis features. The changes are being …
Cisco’s Cius tablet to ship next month
After delays, Cisco’s Cius tablet will start shipping in volume next month, and the device will be one of the …
HP unveils thin client virtualisation solutions
Faced with increasing competition and a fast paced global environment organisations are making investments in strategic IT investments that enable …
PCI Council releases guidelines on compliance in VMs
Enterprises got some much needed clarification on the implementation of PCI requirements in virtualised environments recently. The PCI Security Standards …
HP announces converged storage strategy, products
Hewlett-Packard today announced a series of upgrades to its storage products, including the addition of data snapshots and a portfolio …
HP expands client virtualisation portfolio
HP today announced additions to its desktop-to-data centre client virtualisation portfolio that offer users improved flexibility, security and productivity. Announced …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
Google launches Chrome OS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
Dell works towards faster virtualisation
Dell announced today a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualised environments. “The PowerEdge …
Iomega launches NAS storage line for SMEs
EMC subsidiary Iomega today unveiled a new series of simple disk storage arrays aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and remote …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Half way to the cloud
A CNME-Citrix CIO roundtable in Kuwait reveals that the local market fears that virtualisation and cloud computing may have to …
Three in five SMEs ‘have no business continuity plan
Almost 60% of small and medium sized businesses in the UK lack any continuity plan to respond to natural and …
Gunning for data centre control
F5 is described as an application delivery vendor, but that term is nebulous to some folks and it doesn’t really …