The City of San Diego boasts a 55 per cent virtualized IT environment, with plans to take out another 100 physical machines from the data centre by 2010. The hardware cost differential post-virtualization
Many thrifty managers believe that the same technologies currently used to protect conventional physical servers can simply be extended to virtualized environments. This could lead to being trapped by threats in several areas, including software, administration, mobility, the operating system and network visibility
Manufacturer now sells its iSCSI SANs in bundles rather than let customers chose from product line to make it easier to assemble virtual storage. Also, its managment software has been updated to include the ability to make virtual copies of data volumes
IBM Corp. on Monday announced the latest addition to its eServer line based on the company's POWER5 microprocessors. The new eServer i5 is designed for the small and medium business market and incorporates the newly announced Virtualization Engine, announced late last month.