The most recent Server articles from IT Week

VMware to make bare metal hypervisor free

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-23T14:51:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 14:51:00

Embedded hypervisor to become free

VMware will next week make its ESX 3i hypervisor available for free, a move the company is presenting as a logical step in growing the virtualisation market, but which some...

Replication tool provides failover for Citrix virtual machines

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-21T15:22:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Monday 21 July 2008 at 15:22:00

SteeleEye unveil disaster protection for virtual machines

SteelEye Technology has introduced a suite of tools to provide disaster protection for virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer infrastructure....

Enterprises get another datacentre in a shipping container

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-17T10:20:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Thursday 17 July 2008 at 10:20:00

HP offers businesses a taste of its PODs

Enterprises embracing the self-contained 'datacentre in a shipping container' model in an effort to deal with datacentre floorspace problems, got another such option yesterday, after HP announced its Performance-Optimised Datacentre...

Citrix project Kensho to enlighten datacentre managers

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-16T16:59:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 16:59:00

Citrix, and a host of others, have collaborated on a virtualised application project

Enterprise application delivery vendor Citrix has announced a project designed to allow IT managers to run virtualised applications, wrapped up as a so-called virtual machine (VM), on Microsoft's Hyper-V, VMware's...

Sun enhances SPARC servers

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-15T11:37:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 15 July 2008 at 11:37:00

Firms to get better virtualisation and HPC systems, courtesy of Sun's quad-core SPARC64 VII processor

Enterprise hardware vendor Sun has upgraded its M-series server systems, designed in collaboration with IT infrastructure provider Fujitsu, with faster processors and better connectivity options....

VMware replaces chief exec - Update

IT Week staff — 2008-07-11T16:51:00.000Z

IT Week staff, IT Week, Friday 11 July 2008 at 16:51:00

VMware announces surprise departure of chief executive Diane Greene

Virtualisation trailblazer VMware caught market watchers off-guard last week by replacing Diane Greene as its chief executive. The move comes as VMware faces intensifying competition, most notably from Microsoft....

Can Microsoft make it in the super league?

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-09T12:21:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 12:21:00

The vendor is determined to make a bigger impact in the supercomputing arena

IBM’s latest supercomputer, said to be the first to deliver a petaflop of performance a million gigaflops is a mine of mind-boggling statistics....

IDC highlights virtualisation boom

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-07T14:43:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 7 July 2008 at 14:43:00

Enterprise adoption of virtualisation continues apace

Market watcher IDC said the number of European firms deploying virtualisation technology has rocketed in the last year. But as usage rises, problems are beginning to surface....

Microsoft to attack VMware from below

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-04T17:20:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 4 July 2008 at 17:20:00

Uptake of the software giant’s Hyper-V hypervisor is expected to be strongest among smaller companies, where its affordability is most likely to give it an edge over more sophisticated rivals

With the release of its Hyper-V hypervisor, Microsoft finally has a server virtualisation product with which to rival the likes of VMware....

Dell touts better blade management

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-02T18:25:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 18:25:00

Easier to manage PowerEdge blades using secure digital card and upgraded firmware

Firms using Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade server systems now have a simple way of managing their blades, using software stored on a Secure Digital (SD) card....

Sun gets more social

David Neal — 2008-06-30T11:59:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Monday 30 June 2008 at 11:59:00

Sun Microsystems is making it easier for firms to run and develop open environments

Sun Microsystems is offering customers new software that can help them better manage their resources, and reduce the cost and administration associated with popular open source database and application server...

PlateSpin updates server workload migration tools

Daniel Robinson — 2008-06-26T11:26:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 11:26:00

Management tool provider PlateSpin has a new version of its server migration tool out

PlateSpin has introduced a new version of its management tool for migrating workloads between servers, adding the ability to move between a physical server and a virtual server on Linux-based...

Parallels aims at virtual desktops

Daniel Robinson — 2008-06-24T16:15:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 16:15:00

Virtuozzo container-based platform enables customers to support more users per server than other virtualisation tools, according to the company

Parallels is entering the desktop virtualisation market with its Virtuozzo container-based platform, which enables customers to support more users per server than other virtualisation tools, according to the company....

Cisco upgrades Wide Area Application Services and Application Control Engine

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-24T15:30:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 15:30:00

Networking giant said updates should boost firms’ virtualisation and datacentre management efforts

Networking giant Cisco today announced a raft up updates that should enhance enterprises’ virtualisation and datacentre management efforts, including upgrades to its Wide Area Application Services (Waas) and Application Control...

HP punts de-duplication systems

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-23T16:41:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 23 June 2008 at 16:41:00

HP is aiming its new de-dupe solutions at a range of firms

HP's storage arm moved to establish a presence in the deduplication market today when it announced it was integrating the technology into new systems aimed at the SMB market, and...