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  • Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008

    Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software.
    Gartner has identified the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008”, and is urging IT executives to think about the risk of not implementing each one. If your competitor masters one of these technologies and you don't, will you be at a strategic disadvantage?

  • Unified strategy key to managing IT complexity

    “Unified” thinking about security and storage management is needed if modern datacentres are to run efficiently, says Kris Hagerman, Symantec’s group president for datacentre management.

  • Managing migration migraines with virtualisation

    Somewhere near the top of the list of activities that storage people like doing least is data migration. Slow, time-consuming, and often scheduled at convenient times such as 3am Sunday morning, it has to rank up there with tasks like disaster recovery testing and SAN reconfiguration. To make matters worse, the process often seems to be a prime candidate for Murphy’s Law, often exceeding scheduled windows or needing to be rolled back and rescheduled due to unforeseen problems.

  • Buying off the plans, CHH opts for Microsoft’s roadmap

    Auckland-based forest products company Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) is gradually deploying a Microsoft virtualisation platform, aiming to consolidate servers by at least 50%, increase server utilisation by 60%, and reduce hardware costs.

  • NZ Defence 'crushes' 10 servers a week

    The New Zealand Defence Force says it is freeing up an average of 10 servers per week as part of its server virtualisation programme, dubbed Project Crush.

  • Virtualisation increases IT security pressures

    Virtualisation technology, which allows multiple operating systems to run different applications on a single computer, has caught the attention of IT managers for its promise to let them better manage and utilise corporate IT resources.

  • EDS virtualises its ANZ Unix server farms

    EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.

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