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Changing virtualisation management strategy yields results for LSE
LSE had all the principles of a good IT strategy -- data centre consolidation and virtualisation. But without the correct virtualisation management tool, the project was doomed. News | 14 Sep 2012
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency. Case study | 03 Jul 2012
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HP and Oracle settle legal spat over Hurd hiring
HP and Oracle have agreed to settle their legal spat over the hiring of Mark Hurd; plus more daily news. Article | 21 Sep 2010
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Microsoft makes Windows HPC Server more Linux friendly
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 will work with Linux, but is this capability enough for Microsoft to gain ground in supercomputing? Article | 15 Apr 2010
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RES Software offers VDI management suite: News Roundup
RES Software launches suite of management features to aid virtual desktop deployments; Veeam backup and replication increases speed of virtual servers at The Pensions Trust; Overland Storage launches iSCSI SAN with hooks into VMware and Hyper-V; and ... Article | 19 Feb 2010
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VMware software on smartphones: News roundup
VMware software on smartphones; new intelligent workload roadmap for Novell; and other news of the week. Article | 10 Dec 2009
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Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 challenges Linux on low-end HPC
With Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft has set its sights on an emerging class of commercial high-performance computing (HPC) applications running on the x86 platform. Article | 14 Jul 2009
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DCIM: what it is and what it does
Data Centre Infrastructure Management holds unquestionable worth, but with the wealth of DCIM tools in the market, IT managers must choose carefully. Tip
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Data centre design: Using engineered racks, pods and containers
IT pros must adopt a new approach to data centre design and consider using engineered racks, pods and containerised systems for better scalability, capacity and efficiency. Tip
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Troubleshooting VM performance, capacity management woes
Problems stemming from performance and capacity management are big worries for virtualisation administrators. But there are tool sets and metrics they can use for troubleshooting. Tip
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High-availability solutions in nonvirtualised environments
High-availability solutions ensure uptime and help avoid infrastructure problems. But without virtualisation, their hardware and software requirements can be quite pricey. Tip
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High-availability clustering in virtual data centres
High-availability clustering offers more server choices and easier storage methods in virtual environments. It also reduces the risk of crashes and improves server maintenance. Tip
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Second look at HPC: Is retail ready for supercomputing?
Five years ago, IT pundits said nontraditional supercomputing customers, specifically retailers, would soon buy high-performance computing, or HPC, for business intelligence. Did those predictions come true? Tip
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With Hyper-V's clustering and storage, who needs HA?
Hyper-V detractors say that the hypervisor's lack of high availability (HA) makes it inferior to VMware. But with Windows clustering features and storage options available in Hyper-V, SMBs may not need HA. Tip
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Server cluster failure considerations to maintain a fault-tolerant data centre
Server clustering can help you achieve a fault-tolerant data centre, but cluster failures can cause problems if your heartbeat monitoring system is on the same network as your production workload. An expert discusses the problems he encountered with ... Tip
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Changing virtualisation management strategy yields results for LSE
LSE had all the principles of a good IT strategy -- data centre consolidation and virtualisation. But without the correct virtualisation management tool, the project was doomed. News
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency. Case study
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DCIM: what it is and what it does
Data Centre Infrastructure Management holds unquestionable worth, but with the wealth of DCIM tools in the market, IT managers must choose carefully. Tip
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Data centre design: Using engineered racks, pods and containers
IT pros must adopt a new approach to data centre design and consider using engineered racks, pods and containerised systems for better scalability, capacity and efficiency. Tip
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Troubleshooting VM performance, capacity management woes
Problems stemming from performance and capacity management are big worries for virtualisation administrators. But there are tool sets and metrics they can use for troubleshooting. Tip
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HP and Oracle settle legal spat over Hurd hiring
HP and Oracle have agreed to settle their legal spat over the hiring of Mark Hurd; plus more daily news. Article
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Microsoft makes Windows HPC Server more Linux friendly
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 will work with Linux, but is this capability enough for Microsoft to gain ground in supercomputing? Article
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High-availability solutions in nonvirtualised environments
High-availability solutions ensure uptime and help avoid infrastructure problems. But without virtualisation, their hardware and software requirements can be quite pricey. Tip
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High-availability clustering in virtual data centres
High-availability clustering offers more server choices and easier storage methods in virtual environments. It also reduces the risk of crashes and improves server maintenance. Tip
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RES Software offers VDI management suite: News Roundup
RES Software launches suite of management features to aid virtual desktop deployments; Veeam backup and replication increases speed of virtual servers at The Pensions Trust; Overland Storage launches iSCSI SAN with hooks into VMware and Hyper-V; and ... Article
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About Clustering for high availability and HPC
Preventing unplanned downtime in the data centre is crucial to your organisation's business operations. To ensure the highest availability possible, check out the advice and news on high-availability (HA) clustering in this section, including information on backup, redundancy, failover and HA testing. Also, get the latest on using high-performance computing (HPC) clustering to handle heavy processing demands.