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Virtualisation: Features

Features

  • Server Virtualization: Top Five Security Concerns

    In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those worries have included social-networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook and other outlets through which employees could turn loose company confidential data. But the security of virtual servers and virtualized infrastructures also rank near the top of the list-and rightly so, according to analysts.

  • VMware vSphere: Does It Solve IT's Biggest Worries About Cloud?

    For all the hype about cloud computing in the enterprise—hype that Gartner believes is now nearing its peak—IT professionals continue to tell cloud-related vendors that the cloud will not be practical until several serious concerns are addressed. VMware, with its vSphere 4 announcement today, is laying the foundation for what it hopes will be a central role for VMware technology in enterprises making use of both public and private cloud computing systems.

  • 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.

  • Desktop Virtualization and Licensing: IT Wary of Gotchas

    CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both Windows and OS X on a single machine.

  • Mobile communication

    The push towards remote working is a key consideration impacting the way desktop virtualisation is used today, as well as in the long-term. Being able to send a virtual footprint to a mobile phone was one potential area of opportunity for VMware to extend its client virtualisation offering, regional partner director, Manish Sharma, said.

  • The licensing issue

    One of the biggest challenges in deploying a virtualised desktop environment is licensing from both a cost savings point of view, as well as management. Speaking from an SMB perspective, Nexus IT’s Sean Murphy said Microsoft software licensing was a major inhibitor.

  • Business process re-engineering

    Business processes are becoming an increasingly important consideration for any IT integrator delivering solutions to commercial customers. They are also proving to be critical in the context of a virtualised desktop environment.

  • Feature: The money question

    With the Australian economy on the verge of recession, barely a day goes by when IT vendors aren’t plugging the cost savings their technology provides. But in the emerging virtual desktop space there are lingering questions about whether the technology can help in an economic downturn. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

  • Cloud computing: Don't get caught without an exit strategy

    When the IT world looks back at 2008, it will certainly remember the global financial crisis. But it will also likely link that time frame with the takeoff of cloud computing, the engine behind more conferences, conversations and marketing collateral than seemingly any other technology in development today.

  • Report cites potential privacy gotchas in cloud computing

    Companies looking to reduce their IT costs and complexity by tapping into cloud computing services should first make sure that they won't be stepping on any privacy land mines in the process, according to a report released this week by the World Privacy Forum.

  • The art of virtualisation

    The evolutions of digital photography and virtualisation have a striking resemblance. Both have taken elements of the physical world – photographic prints on the one hand and IT hardware on the other – and created virtual versions while providing significant cost savings and flexibility. The disruptive effects on their respective industries have been enormous.

  • How Virtualization Improves Software Development

    Virtualization technologies aren't just for server consolidation. They've long been valuable tools to anyone writing or testing software. We show how these tools are being used for software development and quality assurance now and identify a few places where developers still want more from virtualization.

  • Cloud options for IT that IT will love

    Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's value with an official standards document entitled "There's gold in them thar networks!" (RFC1290) Although simmering as an academic tool for years, the Internet had not yet triggered a significant paradigm shift for commercial computing. Martin's formal proclamation was an early push to business, which eventually embraced Internet commerce wholeheartedly.

  • Are virtual desktops more secure?

    Desktop virtualisation separates the desktop device from the underlying hardware and the applications from the operating system, while still giving users a full PC desktop experience.

  • Virtualisation: Taking the risk

    Securing virtual environments, whether it be at the desktop, server, network, application or storage level, is a crucial component to any virtual strategy. With the security threat landscape constantly evolving, putting all company resources into a centralised virtual environment without a comprehensive security game plan is a gamble no organisation should willingly take.