virtualisation - News, Features, and Slideshows

• VMware’s tech partner collaboration ramps up revenue

  VMware’s strategic collaboration with technology partners such as IBM and AWS helped to bolster the vendor’s revenue tally during the first quarter.

• ​Bay of Plenty gives birth to cloud-focused start-up

  Introducing Infranetix, the newest cloud kid on the block.

• Ingram Micro grabs Veeam NZ aggregator role

  Resellers are the winners as deal provides access to entire Veeam product portfolio.

• ​Why service providers are vital to VMware’s cloud strategy

  Virtualisation vendor outlines route to cloud success via the channel.

• ​Open Systems Specialists runs riot at Red Hat partner awards

  Kiwi IT infrastructure provider walks away with regional, cloud and virtualisation honours.

• 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.