Chip-makers are keen to talk up the benefits of their next-generation hardware solutions, especially when it comes to virtualisation, but will these solutions work for CIOs?
Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy.
Mass server virtualisation has reduced Suncorp's server count, but datacentre manager David Chesterfield warns: beware the heat.
Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, provides evidence that the company is taking note of what customers want, according to analysts.
Cisco CEO John Chambers has predicted that the IT industry will enjoy a second era of productivity which will mirror the growth spurred by the original Internet revolution in the mid-90s.
My recent rant about the horrors of Adobe Acrobat's update process attracted a fair degree of sympathy, but also managed to royally annoy at least one Big Deal reader, who questioned what it had to do with the column's stated intention of illuminating issues central to IT managers.
The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?
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VMware Workstation is an excellent product, having the potential to save IT managers many hours of work. And at only AU$257.23 per seat, it is also good value for money.
ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.
The chipmaker's vPro PC management technology is set to make its debut in notebooks over the next few months.
With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualisation is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you?
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