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Virtualisation a key enabler of cloud computing
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 11:10

Cloud computing might be one of the latest buzz words in computing, but this method of computing isn’t all that new.

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NetApp unveils new cloud services
Monday, 08 March 2010, 11:22

In the face of today's increased economic pressures, many IT organizations are turning to cloud computing to help reduce costs and improve efficiencies in the data center. Service providers play a key role in this data center transformation and help customers realize these benefits by delivering a wide range of IT services via the cloud.

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Citrix, Novell partner to extend customer choice
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 11:20

Citrix Systems and Novell announce a collaboration that expands choice for customers through increased virtualisation interoperability and new assessment tools to help pinpoint the economically most advantageous approach to virtualisation. Through this new partnership, Novell has certified SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a “Perfect Guest” running on Citrix XenServer and both companies will provide joint technical support to customers.

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Rackspace puts Microsoft SharePoint in the cloud
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 11:20

Rackspace Hosting has launched Hosted MicroSoft SharePoint backed by Rackspace’s 24x7x365 Fanatical Support. With the addition of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Rackspace's suite of cloud applications now includes business-class collaboration, e-mail and storage solutions.

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CA, NetApp enhance cloud management
Monday, 15 February 2010, 10:18

CA and NetApp have announced an extension of their multi-year solutions partnership to develop management solutions for public and private cloud environments.

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Microsoft adds virtualisation to unified communications
Tuesday, 09 February 2010, 11:07

Microsoft continues its foray into unified communications (UC). With its support for a virtualised topology in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, it now supports virtualisation in several OCS R2 components including presence, IM and group chat.

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Trends and Analysis
Getting above the cloud to address security, reliability, portability
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 11:28

If you’d told me earlier on in 2009 that cloud computing would be one of the hottest topics in communications and IT by the end of the year, I’m not sure I would have entirely believed you, writes Jim Warner, vice-president and head of digital media, advertising & cloud computing at TM Forum.

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A virtualisation checklist
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:22

There are a number of good reasons why companies should virtualise their IT infrastructure – super fast disaster recovery, lower hardware acquisition costs, better hardware expenditure and reduced energy consumption to name but a few.

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Starship Systems optimistic about virtualisation in 2010
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 11:26

With South African companies becoming increasingly concerned about IT acquisition and energy costs, the demand for virtualisation technologies should grow steadily in 2010.

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Virtualisation: effective capacity planning still needed
Monday, 30 November 2009, 11:28

There’s a perception that virtualisation has almost eliminated the need for capacity planning. But, Herman van Heerden, Managing Director of Starship Systems, a local technology company specialising in the design, supply and deployment of virtualisation technologies, says this is a misconception.

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The true cost of virtualisation
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 08:54

It's been an article of faith that virtualisation will help save the enterprise money, turning it into one of the few growth areas in the recession. But some companies are starting to take a hard look at the numbers and are concluding that the ROI on virtualisation may not be all it's cracked up to be.

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Citrix verifying third-party products for XenDesktop 4
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 11:20

Citrix Systems has launched the new Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualisation programme to further accelerate large-scale enterprise virtual desktop deployments with Citrix XenDesktop.

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