A college in Vermont is significantly reducing the number of its physical servers by going virtual. The payoff? Energy efficiency, cost savings, and a second data center just for disaster recovery.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/07/2011
So far, so good: $13M saved, 80% ROI
Package makes it easy to run Windows applications from anywhere -- no installation required.
- By Logan Harbaugh
- 01/01/2011
Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.
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Storage presents a lot of problems. It's expensive, it accumulates in all kinds of places where you can't find it, it's a hassle to move from point A to point B and it isn't always compatible from one vendor to the next.
The Microsoft marketing meister describes a team effort in Redmond.
Start the new year off with our helpful roadmap of the top vendors looking to make a splash in your enterprise in 2011.
How will your systems make the transition? We offer answers to seven questions about cloud migration.
- By Eric Beehler
- 12/07/2010
Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.
Package makes it easy to run Windows apps from anywhere.
- By Logan Harbaugh
- 12/01/2010
Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/09/2010
Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
- By Rick Vanover
- 09/01/2010
As Mel Brooks once declared -- and as more than one VMware employee has since crowed -- "It's good to be king."
VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing.
Jeff McNaught's career, in a nutshell: started software company; worked on TRS-80; co-developed first Windows-based thin client at Wyse that remains model for all thin clients sold today.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition is a cost-efficient addition to the IT arsenal.
- By Logan Harbaugh
- 09/01/2010
Parallels VP Amir Sharif talks virtual infrastructures.
One of the hottest virtualization markets to date is turning into a vendor free-for-all as a mixture of established and startup companies rush to stake their claims.
- By Alan Maddison
- 09/01/2010