Feb 02
OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global enterprise data center IT Solutions Provider, unveiled its Hewlett-Packard (HP) Cloud Center of Excellence Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
Any data center with a virtualized environment has a real need for effective capacity management. This article discusses the reasons why capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluating capacity management systems.
A major advantage of virtualized environments is their ability to improve resource utilization by running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the physical servers in a shared infrastructure. With such an architecture, utilization can increase from as low as 10% for dedicated servers to 60% or more for virtualized servers. The enhanced resource efficiencies make it possible to more fully utilize ever-increasing server power and provide significant savings in capital expenditures, power consumption, rack space and cooling.
This concept of greater efficiencies through resource-sharing is not new. Mainframe systems have long employed time-slicing to enable multiple applications to run concurrently. With mainframe systems, the dedicated and quite sophisticated “capacity planning” is performed by the operating system, which ensures that no application can cause any others to suffer from resource contention issues. The high cost of mainframes created a strong incentive for IT departments to maximize mainframe resource utilization by running as many concurrent applications as physically possible.
Feb 02
As you may already know, Eric Siebert over at vSphere Land holds an annual vote to determine the top blogs in the world of virtualization. He then… Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
If you marked your calendar down after last year’s VMworld Europe event for 2012… I hope you wrote it in pencil. Because, yes, the date has… Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
Contributed Article by Joseph Hand, Senior Director of Product Strategy, AppAssure Software Virtualization’s roots go back to the 1960s and IBM,… Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
Contributed Article by Joseph Hand, Senior Director of Product Strategy, AppAssure Software Virtualization’s roots go back to the 1960s and IBM,… Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
gManZboy writes “Binoculars and night-vision goggles have their limits. So DARPA is doing work at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks to create wearable eye lenses with tiny, full-color displays onto which digital images can be projected, to give soldiers better situational awareness. The lenses would allow users to focus simultaneously on images that are both close up (perhaps a display) and far away (perhaps a battlefield.) Using virtual reality technologies to improve how soldiers perform on the battlefield has been a particular interest of the U.S. military for some time.”
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Feb 02
Statistics show that the majority of small businesses are not prepared to recover quickly from a disaster. IT systems are particularly susceptible to Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
OutSystems, provider of the industry-leading Agile Platform application development environment, announced today a contract with the United States… Read more at VMblog.com.
Feb 02
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors… Read more at VMblog.com.