virtualisation software

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Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation

May 13, 2008 12:00am PDT

The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server...

Provided by: Sun Microsystems

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The Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy: What Makes This Enterprise Class Virtualisation Solution Different?

December 4, 2008 12:00am PST

It used to be that virtualisation was locked away safe in the hands of geeks or software testers where it wouldn't ruin the day for the rest. However, the technology has matured to the point that...

Provided by: C Infinity

White Papers

Citrix Business Solutions: Powered by Datacore Software

September 3, 2008 12:00am PDT

DataCore Software provides storage virtualisation solutions that make storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. DataCore Storage Virtualisation is the...

Provided by: Citrix Systems

White Papers

Maximise virtual backup and recovery in five steps

December 7, 2011 12:00am PST

Virtualisation is being rapidly adopted, particularly in small to mid-sized businesses. It brings significant time, money and labour savings in a variety of areas, including procurement,...

Provided by: Quest Software

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Maximise virtual backup and recovery in five steps

December 7, 2011 12:00am PST

Virtualisation is being rapidly adopted, particularly in small to mid-sized businesses. It brings significant time, money and labour savings in a variety of areas, including procurement,...

Provided by: Quest Software

White Papers

Performance Evaluation of Mapreduce Using Full Virtualisation on a Departmental Cloud

June 16, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper analyses the performance of Hadoop, an implementation of the MapReduce programming model for distributed parallel computing, executing on a virtualisation environment comprised of 1+16...

Provided by: Robert Gordon University

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What's the best virtualisation suite?

May 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Over the past few years, virtualisation has become a viable option to thin down your datacentres in physical size, heat, and cost. This detailed analysis, courtesy of ZDNet Australia, will help...

Provided by: ZDNet Australia

White Papers

Towards High Performance Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware

December 12, 2008 12:00am PST

Modern commodity hardware architectures, with their multiple multi-core CPUs and high-speed system interconnects, exhibit tremendous power. In this paper, the authors study performance limitations...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Benchmarking a MapReduce Environment on a Full Virtualisation Platform

June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper analyses the performance of Hadoop, an implementation of the MapReduce programming model for distributed parallel computing, executing on a virtualisation environment comprised of 1+16...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

White Papers

Matching Server Virtualisation With Advanced Storage Virtualisation

December 19, 2009 12:00am PST

In order to meet the challenges of running today's data centres, an increasing number of IT organisations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualise the data centre...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Case Studies

Fire and Rescue Team Cuts Electricity Costs by 77 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers

October 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

The IT team at Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service wanted to ensure continued compliance with the United Kingdom (U.K.) government's Civil Contingencies Act and roll out a new disaster recovery data...

Provided by: Microsoft

Case Studies

Scottish Council Saves £100,000 in First Year by Virtualising Server Estate

November 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

Perth and Kinross Council wanted a more cost-effective delivery environment for its growing portfolio of citizen-centric services, some of which required multiple servers consuming large amounts...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Case Study: 250 Schools Access Apps via Virtualisation Hub

June 4, 2008 12:00am PDT

Warwickshire, a county in central England with a population of more than 500,000 people, is bridging the digital divide by providing essential computer programs to primary and secondary school...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Proven Virtualisation Scalability With The Sun Fire X4600 Server

May 13, 2008 12:00am PDT

This white paper looks at how organisation can consolidate a number of applications from a number of under-utilised servers and ease the space, power, and cooling crunch. Consolidate from many to...

Provided by: Sun Microsystems

Case Studies

Breakthrough: P&O Ferrymasters Continues to Evolve Its Infrastructure to Meet Real-Time Business Demands

March 1, 2008 12:00am PST

P&O Ferrymasters wanted a secure, reliable infrastructure capable of responding nimbly to business demands. P&O Ferrymasters simplified operations, improved manageability and control, and enhanced...

Provided by: Unisys

Articles

Keeping up with the Joneses

April 3, 2006 4:58pm PDT

Microsoft has opened up its Virtual Server 2005 R2 software to run Linux. But why?

White Papers

Improve email security with a hybrid solution

October 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

From appliances, software and virtualised environments, businesses have typically used on-premise solutions for their email security solutions. As departments cut costs, many businesses are...

Provided by: McAfee

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Quad-Core Processors Bring Higher Performance and Lower Cost to Mainstream Computing

May 13, 2008 12:00am PDT

This in-depth study shows how Intel has created a market-leading processor family built on quad-core technology with a first-to-market advantage. Leading hardware and software vendors have...

Provided by: Sun Microsystems

Case Studies

Allianz Updates IT Infrastructure With Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System Z and Jboss Enterprise Middleware

August 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Operating across Australia and New Zealand with approximately 3,300 staff, Allianz Australia Limited offers a wide range of insurance and risk management products. Rebuild Allianz's IT...

Provided by: Red Hat

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Security in Open Model Software With Hardware Virtualization - The Railway Control System Perspective

August 10, 2010 12:00am PDT

Using the openETCS initiative as a starting point, this paper describes how open software can be applied in combination with platform-specific, potentially closed source extensions, in the...

Provided by: University of Bremen