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David Coyle, Gartner Researcher: The 7 Side Effects Of Lousy Virtualization
David Coyle, research VP at Gartner, detailed the seven side effects at the research firm’s Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit, which drew nearly 900 attendees. While virtualization promises to solve issues such as underutilization, high hardware costs and poor system availability, the benefits come only when the technology is applied with proper care and consistently monitored for change, Coyle explained.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedEMC Joins Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Research Project
EMC has joined the Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Project which conducts research into “trust and assurance” in cloud computing environments. EMC joins a growing global research team that today includes four of China’s leading technical universities including Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Tsinghua University, and Wuhan University. The team’s research will focus on cloud computing, trusted computing and virtualization.
16Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Picking Up More Steam in Asia Pacific
Research from Springboard had already estimated the virtualization software and services market in Asia Pacific to reach $ 1.35 billion with CAGR of 42 % by 2010, here’s another indication that Asia is poised to become the biggest growth market for virtualization in the future, particularly with financial institutions.
6Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Unveils Research Initiative PHANTOM, Aims To Protect Virtual Servers Better
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in safeguarding virtual server environments and introduced new software to help businesses better manage risk. The company said the advances can provide businesses with substantial improvements in securing information, applications, and IT infrastructures around the globe.
10Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Virtualization The Biggest Security Vulnerability In IT Today?
Joanna Rutkowska, the founder of security research firm Invisible Things Lab, reportedly described a new type of virtualization-based malware that could be used to take control of a machine running virtualization software. Because virtualization allows companies to store many virtualized software “images” of computers on a single physical machine, an attack like the one Rutkowska envisions would allow a hacker “not only to control a single machine but to siphon data from any virtual machine it contains”.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedAnother Study Predicts Huge and Rapid Virtualization Market Growth
Application Delivery Networking provider F5 Networks today released the results of another survey that shows the storage virtualization market is set to grow rapidly. The online study reveals the percentage of U.S. enterprises that use storage virtualization solutions will more than double from 21 % to 47 % in the next few years.
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedGartner: Virtualization Wave To Cause Huge Market Disruption And Consolidation Through 2012
Gartner: “Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is creating a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors that will result in considerable market disruption and consolidation over the next few years.”
6Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedGartner: Server Market Doing Fine Until Further Notice
A new report from Gartner shows the server market did great during all of 2007, including the fourth quarter. Server shipments rose 11 % during the fourth quarter, while revenue rose almost 3 %. The world’s server vendors combined to ship 2.4 million boxes during the fourth quarter and brought in $ 15.5 billion for their efforts. In all of 2007, shipments rose 7 %, while revenue jumped 4 %.
22Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedSaugatuck Technologies on ‘The Many Faces of Virtualization’
Consulting and research firm Saugatuck Technologies published a report last December dubbed ‘The Many Faces of Virtualization - Understanding a New IT Reality ‘, proclaiming that virtualization will have the single largest effect on IT budgets for hardware and support over the next three years and that by 2010, the 3 main vendors (VMWare, [...]
24Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
