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How the Cisco-HP split will change your data centre
Cisco Systems and HP probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said.
Cloud computing revolutions
Changing the nature of cost in IT operations
Cisco on its data centre future
Cisco Systems thinks the transformation of data centres through virtualisation calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group, talked with IDG News Service about the company's push into virtualisation.
Open source virtualisation: Should you try it?
Open source virtualisation has its fans across the Atlantic. Will it gain traction in the UK?
Datacentre tips from EVE Online and World of Warcraft
Online game vendors offer valuable lessons
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Cisco data centre guru talks IPv6, virtualisation and strategy
As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and General Manager of Cisco's Data Centre Switching and Services Group, has seen a boatload of change.
Disney talks green in the data centre
Companies are going green, but measuring efficiency is still a challenge.
VMware CTO details virtual desktop vision
As part of its aggressive push, VMware has hired a second CTO to exclusively focus on desktop virtualisation.
Amazon's cloud provisions 50,000 server instances per day
Amazon Web Services is provisioning some 50,000 EC2 server instances per day, or more than 18 million per year. It's clear that a lot of computing is being done up on Amazon's cloud. So has cloud moved beyond startup to enterprise ready?
Green carbon laws drive data centre revolution
Keeping up with emissions standards
Microsoft software licensing: A nightmare
Small businesses and enterprises confused by Microsoft licence programmes
Five surprising spots for new data centres
From an old nuclear fuel plant to a nonagenarian printing plant, old buildings are finding new life as data centres.
Data centres go underground
Security, backup, data recovery and business continuity in a bunker
Thompson Reuters: Storage savings will pay for server virtualisation
Christopher Crowhurst chief architect of Thomson Reuters explains the financial information provider's massive virtualisation initiative.
Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud
Recently Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president of VMware, said the traditional server operating system was obsolete. Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the future of the OS and cloud-based services.
VMWorld 2008: VMware touts 'the cloud' at user conference
At chief executive Paul Maritz's first VMworld conference, the company previewed a broad set of technology designed to help enterprises become cloud computing providers to their employees.
VMware, MS hang back as others catch up on virtualisation
There are two ways to look at the rush of secondary and tertiary products coming into the virtualisation market-especially this week and next week.
Red Hat CEO on patents, open-source virtualisation
Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, speaks on virtualisation, open source and patent settlements.
Three key trends for the datacentre
A blade consortium, backed by IBM and Intel, has predicted the future of the datacentre.












