virtualisation - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Assessing the pros and cons of virtual machines

  Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud, edge computing​ and microservices owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine.

• Through Pivotal and Carbon Black, VMware enters new territory

  In taking control of Pivotal and Carbon Black, VMware unveiled acquisitions number 10 and 11 during the past 12 months.

• Assessing VMware’s ongoing reinvention

  Virtualisation mainstay VMware wants to build and manage multi-cloud infrastructures… and so much more as 2019 kicks into gear.

• Auckland Council reveals multi-cloud shopping list

  Auckland Council is moving ahead with a large multi-cloud procurement but keeping the expected cost of the project confidential.

• VMware CEO: Why we built the ‘Green Berets’ for CX

  Pat Gelsinger lifts the lid on how the virtualisation and cloud company tackles the non-technology components of digital transformation

• Veeam’s 100 percent channel focus pays off with record local results

  “Veeam runs a 100 percent channel model and our partner community also continues to grow year on year."

• Sky's the limit as cloud provider Zerto targets triple regional growth

  “With virtualisation adoption and cloud adoption becoming the standard across all of Asia, the timing for Zerto to enter the market could not be better."

• Top 10 reasons to strengthen security with desktop virtualisation

  New ways of working call for new ways of managing risk. Mobility, flexwork, bring-your-own device (BYOD) and increased collaboration across organisations have changed risk profiles and undermined existing IT architectures. The challenge is to allow people the flexibility they need to be productive, while ensuring the security and compliance required by enterprises. What's needed is a new security layer -- one that makes it possible to manage risk more effectively.

• Virtualisation: from server and desktop to the network

  Virtualisation lies at the heart of the current evolution of IT infrastructure. Server virtualisation has been demonstrated to provide efficiency and to cut costs in the datacentre. Desktop virtualisation is beginning to change the way in which companies deploy services to users. Both have been evolving rapidly as cloud computing continues to advance and as security, management and deployment issues are addressed.

• Windows 'XP mode': The new DOS box

  An October surprise -- that's how many are interpreting Microsoft's 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions.

Whitepapers about virtualisation

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  A Coordinated Virtual Infrastructure for SDN in Enterprise Networks

  Increasing agility and automation in the data centre to optimise application delivery requires a complete, end-to-end, coordinated virtual infrastructure. This infrastructure will allow applications and the physical network to collaborate, thereby providing a high quality experience for users and enabling optimisation of resources. The ideal solution should follow a Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach. Learn more.