This week Sun Microsystems plans to announce new x86-based server products, including one that can support up to eight dual-core chips. In doing so, Sun is betting that IT managers will increasingly move to large systems as part of a consolidation and virtualisation strategy.
Virtualisation has proved its value at the Automobile Association, saving thousands of dollars in server replacement and resolving maintenance problems.
Assuming you view system virtualisation as an escalating priority, this is a good time to stop and think about client systems and applications, before dipping your brush and drawing that first block in your grand virtualisation architecture.
There are only a few markets ideally suited to virtualisation. One of them is software development. As the scene is usually painted, the developer sits at his or her desk, compiles new software, and launches it in a virtual machine so that when it crashes, it doesn't take the whole box down.
Three years’ worth of market hype hasn’t been able to overcome one apparent truth about multi-vendor storage virtualisation: virtually no one is doing it.
VMware, which trailblazed the way for broader adoption of server virtualisation, is now hoping to drive virtualisation of the desktop with the help of other companies.
Deploying virtualisation software from EMC subsidiary VMware has saved H&R Block, a global tax planning services provider, an estimated US$1 million (NZ$1.6 million) on hardware purchases.
Following on the heels of Apple’s release of Boot Camp comes a virtualisation system allowing both operating systems to run at the same time.
With the recruitment of IBM, Intel, AMD and CA, among others, to a community aimed at framing an industry standard for virtualisation, VMware is planning to have a powerful counter-attack for anything Microsoft can dream up as part of Vista.
When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labelled “virtualisation.” Well, don’t believe everything you read about that (except when you read it here). Let’s see what virtualisation is — and isnt.
It’s no secret that I’m a firm believer in virtualising everything from systems to storage. Zero reality is my mantra.
IT execs who have delayed virtualising their x86-based servers for fear the technology is still unproven should put that project at the top of their to-do lists for 2006, as the market for virtualising the low-volume systems heats up.
Will test DR systems with minimal disruption