Features

• Technology argument 3: Virtualization vs. native apps

  By Joab Jackson | 04 November, 2011 09:54

  About a year ago, a few of the larger virtualization software vendors, such as VMware and CA Technologies, started campaigning against a phenomena that they called virtual stall.

• Just rewards

  By Stephen Bell | 21 April, 2010 08:10

  Brett Hibbert has been working for Loyalty NZ, which runs the FlyBuys loyalty scheme, for five years, and as its head of IT and operations for the past 12 months. Before he moved into his present role, Hibbert's experience was in mainstream business, with an emphasis on merchandising. His knowledge and involvement in ICT evolved as he worked across Loyalty NZ.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  By Bernard Golden | 08 May, 2010 00:37

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• Desktop Virtualization: Comparing Options Frustrates IT

  By Kevin Fogarty | 04 May, 2010 04:55

  Virtual desktops-once the most rigid, least friendly way to put applications in front of end users-have become a hot topic by promising to deliver the security and easy maintenance that was always desktop virtualization's strength. The trouble: Desktop virtualization now comes in so many varieties that even vendors confuse terms referring to the flavors.

• SMB Virtualisation: Taking the virtualisation journey

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 April, 2010 18:58

  It’s not new technology, but to SMBs, virtualisation can still be a scary unknown quantity. MATTHEW SAINSBURY investigates ways partners and vendors can allay those fears to the profit of everyone.

• Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources

  By Kevin Fogarty | 01 March, 2010 06:20

  Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren't taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.

• Saving money, space and energy with blade virtualisation

  By Lisa Shorr | 18 February, 2010 08:51

  In 1986, Attorney Nicholas Barrett founded Nicholas Barrett & Associates with just himself and an assistant running the business. But over the last 24 years, that small two-person office has grown into a bustling 45-person law firm specializing in litigation, real estate law, collections, and loan servicing.

• NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization

  By Joab Jackson | 05 February, 2010 04:33

  New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  By Jim Duffy | 19 January, 2010 17:34

  Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

• How a virtualized server saved one small business

  By David Papp | 22 January, 2010 08:36

  Even tech companies need an IT overhaul from time to time. Case in point: Last year, a Canadian software developer (who preferred to remain nameless for the purposes of this story) called my team at Microtek to give its server room a badly needed upgrade.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

• Five Lessons from a Data Center's Crisis of Capacity

  By Robert Lemos | 16 October, 2009 02:31

  When the data centre neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the budget. Consider these practical lessons from the edge of failure.

• IBM BladeCenter delivers speed, power savings

  By John Bass | 11 August, 2009 03:41

  Optimizing power consumption, CPU performance, and form factor is a never-ending battle in server design and IBM's Bladecenter HS22 succeeds on all counts.

• Myths that IT believes about client virtualization

  By Natalie Lambert | 05 August, 2009 01:27

  Despite client virtualization becoming increasingly popular, there is still much confusion about the different technologies and how they will play out in the enterprise. Many firms still believe that client virtualization is a security risk or that a single technology will help them improve manageability, empower remote workers, and virtualize all their applications.

• Next for VMware? Desktop virtualization takes off in 2010

  By Kevin Fogarty | 04 August, 2009 04:25

  Virtualized infrastructures may be "the mainframe for the 21st century," as VMware CTO Stephen Herrod said in April, but the company will move increasingly toward virtualization and management of smaller devices during the next year or two.