IT managers of 1,700 large enterprises also indicated that 56 percent of data on virtual systems is not even regularly backed up at least once per month. – Virtualizing servers and storage arrays is certainly among the biggest trends right now in the IT world. However, properly protecting all those virtual machines and the data they handle apparently is not among those trends.
Data storage and protection provider Symantec revealed Nov. 22 in its ann…
VMware vSphere 4.1s new features act as a referee when VMs contend for scarce resources. – VMware vSphere 4.1 has a lot more
moving parts. Memory compression and the addition of I/O controls for
networking and storage, which join those already found in the CPU, are
responsible for this increase.
For data center managers, the new
capabilities are a boon. The features basically act as…
CloudShare is looking to reduce the time and expense traditionally associated with moving virtualized IT environments to the cloud with its FastUpload product, which the company will introduce April 19.
– CloudShare, which makes products that enable businesses to quickly build and
share copies of their complex IT environments in a cloud computing environment,
plans to roll out a product that will let enterprises quickly upload existing
virtual machines as a cloud-based service.
FastUpload, to be …
The tech equivalent of urban sprawl is virtual machine sprawl. As cloud computing begins to get a real, day-to-day foothold in enterprise IT systems, ad hoc cloud services are being deployed more and more frequently for short-term results. Many times these are used by employees without company sanction to get a short-term result, and the services are kept around longer than is necessary. Without a comprehensive strategy or formal program in place and without anyone having a handle on what exactly is going on or where corporate data resides, this can lead to big problems. In this slide show, Accenture’s Chief Technology Architect, Paul Daugherty, shows how this sprawl takes root and what a CIO or data center managers can do to ward off these potential problems.By Chris Preimesberger
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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…
