Category: Virtualisation
Cloud Analytics: Delivering More Using Less
With Cloud Computing becoming an ever-encroaching wide-scale reality, driving data centre efficiency is set to become a huge priority. What has come to be referred to as Cloud Analytics is quickly becoming a crucial investment. One company, Sentilla is currently leading the way and has patented technology allowing the ability to monitor the resource consumption of virtual machines. Monitoring a non-physical asset has proven to be relatively difficult making such …
Disaster Recovery is lacking in Virtualised Environments
Organisations utilising virtualisation seem to be placing themselves at greater risk of substantial data loss even though the virtual technology they are deploying improves efficiencies and reduces the cost of disaster recovery. A recent survey conducted by Applied Research, on the state of backup and recovery capabilities in virtual environments, showed that nearly half of enterprise data stored on virtual platforms is rarely backed up and that over 60 percent …
Adoption of virtualisation is set to increase in 2011
Experts in the field have predicted a big rise in both server and Desktop Virtualisation technologies in coming years as businesses try to gain efficiency and optimise their computing facilities. Gartner in particular predict that Server Virtualisation will have a comparable impact on business to that of the advent of e-commerce, and that the concept is completely re-forging IT operations. According to research tech firm IDC, 2010 has been was …
Expert praises security potential of cloud computing
Art Coviello, the head of RSA, told the audience at a security conference in the US that the ongoing adoption of cloud-based solutions was giving vendors and businesses a chance to create a more secure environment for data storage and protection. Speaking at the 2010 EMC World conference in Boston, Mr Coviello said that building cloud platforms from the ground up meant that professionals could integrate security measures into the …
Global data usage figures predicted to soar in 2010
The latest statistics suggest another record year for global data output, with a total of 1.2 Zettabytes set to be produced over the course of 2010 by businesses and individuals around the world. The Interactive Data Corp (IDC) has published this information in a report that asks whether firms are ready to face what it is calling the Digital Universe Decade. A Zettabyte is the equivalent of a trillion gigabytes, …
The Risks of Failing to Perform Disaster Recovery Tests
The creation and testing of a disaster recovery plan is one of the key elements of business continuity management. Traditionally business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning have always been separated between the business and the IT department. It has long been recognised that this ‘divide’ creates more problems than it solves, after all most businesses could not continue to operate successfully if their IT services were unavailable for a …
Server Virtualisation is more than just Server Consolidation
Server virtualisation is very much the hot topic in computing at the moment, with many companies investing their I.T. budget into this new technology because of the long term savings that have been predicted. These savings can be found in a number of different areas, the main one being server consolidation, taking the 5 servers your company is currently running, and turning them into one box, running the 5 servers. …
