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Managing Data Center Costs

August 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Todays companies are turning to consolidation and virtualization to lower costs and increase performance and agility. Next-generation, high-performance servers from Sun Microsystems – powered by the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series – deliver a platform that enables businesses to reap the benefits of virtualization and employ best practices for managing their data environments.

A server and storage refresh can bring dramatic savings and performance gains over three- and four-year-old equipment, cutting down on hardware footprints, management expenses, licensing fees, and energy costs while supporting mission-critical workloads more efficiently.
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Do Hyper-V’s Improvements Make It a Stronger VMware Rival?

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Hyper-V, part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform, provides some improvements that were absolutely necessary for Microsoft to even think of competing with VMware’s latest offerings. Are they enough? eWEEK Labs’ early look at the new Hyper-V shows that Microsoft still has a lot of ground to cover.
– Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 R2 with a newly improved version of
Hyper-V. Even so, VMware is still miles ahead in terms of the features and
innovation that lay the foundation for sustainable virtualization for midsize and
large enterprises.
In fact, I think VMware with its just-release…

Trend Micro Announces Core Protection for Virtual Machines

August 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Security specialist Trend Micro offers businesses a virtualization security solution, Core Protection for Virtual Machines, as part of its Enterprise Security slate.
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Chip Shot: New Tool Scores Server Efficiency

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The Intel Premier IT Professional site offers a new server efficiency tool that gives IT professionals a snapshot of their current performance and energy efficiency versus what it could be by turning up the number of processor cores and use of virtualization. It also compares their data centers with those of other IPIP members.

Hyper9 VOS Helps Battle Virtual Machine Sprawl

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Hyper9 is rolling out the second version of its flagship Virtualization Optimization Suite, which is designed to give businesses improved insight into their virtualized environments and better ways to manage their VMs. While many business embraced virtualization to save money in such areas as hardware, space and power, the result has been a virtualization environ-ment that is not always easy to manage. Hyper9 VOS offers a host of new features tied together by an intuitive user interface.
– Hyper9 officials want to give businesses better insight into their virtual environments.
The company July 29 rolled out the second generation of its flagship Virtualization Optimization Suite for VOS which is designed to help businesses create virtual environments that are suitable to their busines…

Hyper9 VOS Helps Battle Virtual Machine Sprawl

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Labs Gallery: rPath rBuilder 5 Gets Flash-y, Adds Linux Distro Support

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

rPath’s rBuilder enables companies to build, maintain and deploy their own Linux-based software appliances. The 5.0 version of rBuilder adds support for multiple Linux distribution platforms, as well as a management console for launching software appliances on a handful of virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Check out these slides for a look at eWEEK Labs’ tests of the 5.2.1 rBuilder update.
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HP Takes Data Center Transformation Services on the Road

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Using their own experiences in consolidating 85 data centers into six, HP officials have spent the past year meeting with customers to help them start thinking about what is involved in transforming their data centers into dynamic, efficient and cost-effect facilities. Most customers talk about virtualization and cloud computing, but HP officials say there is a lot more to it than that.
– MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Three years ago, Hewlett-Packard officials announced an ambitious data center consolidation plan that would reduce the number of facilities worldwide from 85 to six.
The project not only has given HP a much more cost-effective, efficient and dynamic data center environment, but i…

EMC Profits Fall 43%

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Storage giant EMC’s earnings dropped to $205.2 million from $360.1 million in second-quarter 2008, EMC reports. Overall income was down 11 percent to $3.26 billion. However, CEO Joe Tucci is optimistic, saying he believes a return to higher numbers may not be far away.
– Storage giant EMC, which had enjoyed
double-digit profits for 21 quarters up until this year, reported July 23 that
it lost ground in the second quarter of 2009 as its profit fell 43 percent from
a year ago.

The company’s virtualization subsidiary, VMware,
reported a 36 percent drop in profi…

VMware Profits Down 36.5% but Execs Optimistic for Rest of 2009

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Storage virtualization software maker VMware reports profits of $33 million or 8 cents per share, compared with $52 million or 13 cents per share a year ago. Overall revenue was flat at $456 million, but VMware’s CEO and CFO are optimistic that good numbers lie ahead.
– Enterprise virtualization software kingpin VMware on July 22 reported
a 36.5 percent falloff in its second-quarter profit from the same period a year
ago, but CEO Paul Maritz and his fellow executives remained
optimistic about the company’s prospects for the next six months.

VMware, which is …

Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft announces that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing. In addition, Microsoft says it plans to release a family pack that would allow Windows 7 Home Premium to be installed on up to three PCs. Microsoft is presumably hoping that a high rate of adoption for its new products will improve its flagging finances.
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announced the release of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to
manufacturing on July 22.
The two platforms represent a major part of Microsoft’s grand strategy, as
it seeks to capitalize on technological trends such as virtualization that are
rapidly changing the face of IT. T…

Sun, Fujitsu Launch Enhanced UltraSPARC Systems into Roiling Unix Market

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Sun and Fujitsu are offering improved performance and virtualization features for their UltraSPARC-based servers through the adoption of new processors and LDoms virtualization software. The rollout comes at a time when uncertainty surrounds the Unix space, with Oracle buying Sun and delays in Intels next-generation Itanium chip. At the same time, IBM is paving the way for its upcoming Power7 platform.
– Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out enhanced UltraSPARC-based servers into a Unix market that could see continued shifting over the coming months.
Officials with Sun and Fujitsu July 21 boasted improved performance and virtualization capabilities in the systems, thanks to the addition of t…

Sun, Fujitsu Launch Enhanced UltraSPARC Systems into Roiling Unix Market

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

How to Maximize Performance and Utilization of Your Virtual Infrastructure

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Most Fortune 1000 companies today are currently between 15 to 30 percent virtualized. There are still a lot of obstacles to overcome in order to move more virtualization projects forward. The biggest virtualization challenge facing organizations is how to manage the virtual infrastructure. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Alex Bakman explains how IT staffs can dramatically improve performance and utilization efficiencies in their virtualization projects.
– Organizations today are rapidly virtualizing their infrastructures. In doing so, they are experiencing a whole new set of systems management challenges. These challenges cannot be solved with traditional toolsets in an acceptable timeframe to match the velocity at which organizations are virtualizin…

IBM Preps for Power7 Processor Release

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

IBM is offering what it is calling an easy upgrade path for Power6-based server users who will want to move to Power7 when it is available in the first half of 2010. Power7 will offer greater virtualization capabilities, as well as two to three times the performance within the same power envelope. In addition, IBM announced System Director VMControl, which offers businesses an easier way to manage their virtualized environments.
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IBM is readying servers that will ship with the
upcoming Power7 processor, which officials say will offer two to three times
the performance of the current Power6 systems while using the same amount of
energy.
IBM officials made the announcement
July 21. In addition, they also announced new s…

Labs Gallery: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Makes Advances in No-Cost Server Virtualization Space

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Version 5.5 of the no-cost Citrix XenServer provides improved backup and snapshot capabilities, as well as the ability to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. However, while the no-cost version will be suitable for modest-size organizations, data centers that must ensure high performance will need to move up to the Essentials, which costs from $2,700 to more than $5,000 per server.
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Trend Micro Pushes Virtualization Security

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Trend Micro Core Protection for Virtual Machines is designed to protect virtual machines whether they are active or offline. The virtualization security product from Trend Micro is an attempt to provide new levels of malware protection for VMs.
– Trend Micro is pushing ahead with plans to bolster its virtualization
security portfolio with a new offering designed to protect VMware ESX/ESXi
environments.
Dubbed Trend Micro Core Protection for Virtual Machines, the product is
slated to be available in August. Designed to protect both acti…

VMware Builds Out vCenter Virtualization Management

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

VMware is growing the application management capabilities of vCenter with the introduction of AppSpeed, which will make it easier for IT administrators to manage the applications that are running on VMware virtualization environments. In addition, the new vCenter Chargeback feature will give IT administrators and businesses a greater view into the use of their virtualized data center resources and their associated costs.
– VMware is putting new capabilities into its vCenter virtualization management product.
VMware July 13 unveiled the AppSpeed and Chargeback features for vCenter, which are designed to help data center administrators automate the management of their virtualized environments.
Enterprises are continui…