No immediate plans to patch flaw that skirts Windows defenses, says Microsoft
A bug in Microsoft's software gives hackers a way to exploit virtual Windows machines which would be attack-proof if they were running on real hardware, a researcher said today.
NGD Europe has about 750,000 square feet of floor space
One of the world's largest data centers has opened for business in the U.K., protected by bomb-proof glass and powered by enough electricity to run a small city.
Analyst says virtualization deployment projects aren't considering security in initial architecture and planning stages
Through 2012, 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace, according to Gartner. Although Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015, analysts warned that many virtualization deployment projects are being undertaken without involving the information security team in the initial architecture and planning stages.
New analyst group research looks at security issues around virtualization
Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.
Server, desktop and storage handled as one?
Storage technology vendor DataCore Software Corp. is touting a three-dimensional approach to virtualization that encourages organizations to address server, desktop and storage concurrently from the outset when building a virtualized environment.
Organisations get to more involved in virtualisation meaning in the next two years, 20 per cent of buisnesses will not own any IT assets
A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.
The newest version has better links to Windows Server's clustering feature, among others, and can do live migrations
With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are. Companies are also figuring out that these virtual machines have special needs and requirements that can multiply very quickly as servers are added, moved, changed or removed.
New Labs site is meeting place for virtualisation techies
Having a fling has suddenly taken on a new meaning: VMware is positively encouraging its engineers to have as many as possible
New plug-ins are free with current maintenance agreements
EMC has announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.
Most vendors experience growth but not Sun
Despite a decline in server shipments in 2009, analyst firm Gartner is predicting growth in the x86 server space.
Its authentication, monitoring and data-loss prevention tools all will work in virtualized environments
EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualization trend that its VMware spinoff helped kick off, announcing Thursday that three of its core security products will work in VMware virtualized environments.
The management specialist finds that the popularity of those products is growing
Vizioncore's management tool vFoglight will work with Microsoft's virtualization platform Hyper-V by the middle of the year and with Xen from Citrix by the end of the year, the company said Wednesday at Cebit.
You don't even need a PC
A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.
Want more memory? Buy a new server.
IBM is planning to release a new class of x86 servers that treat memory, processors and solid-state disk as interchangeable components, saying a more flexible server is needed to satisfy the requirements of virtualized data centers.
2010 will be a crucial year for both VMware and Microsoft
With 170,000 customers, including every member of the Fortune 100, you might think VMware's toughest task is stocking enough paper to print up new customer contracts.
