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• Need for more Australian specialist Cloud providers: CIO study

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 April, 2012 15:55

  With Australian CIOs looking overseas for Cloud services, the need for more Australian specialist infrastructure and platform-as-a-service providers presents opportunities for the local Cloud service market, according to a new study from analyst firm, Telsyte.

• Kaspersky to protect virtual machines running on VMware

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 March, 2012 00:38

  Kaspersky Lab has launched Security for Virtualization, designed to centralize the protection of virtual machines running on VMware, the company said on Tuesday at the Cebit trade show.

• OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release

  By Nancy Gohring | 02 February, 2012 11:05

  Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday.

• Red Hat RHEV pressed into action

  By Joab Jackson | 19 January, 2012 08:54

  Red Hat has released the third version of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV virtualization software package, which includes improvements that would make it suitable for larger deployments, and a new console for self-provisioning.

• Six reasons small businesses need virtualization

  By Paul Mah | 12 January, 2012 03:24

  Server virtualization has been around for more than 10 years and while issues such as storage and I/O bottlenecks can still rear their head, the multi-faceted advantages offered by virtualization are real and attainable even if you run a small business—and since your competitors may not have discovered the benefits of the technology yet you may gain a significant competitive advantage.

• IT investment up in 2011: IDC

  By Hamish Barwick | 07 December, 2011 08:51

  Investing in new hardware and software has been the number one priority for IT managers and chief information officers in 2011 for the first time in five years, according to a new IDC Australia report.

• CIO Q&A: How Citrix supports more workers with lower IT budget

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 29 November, 2011 22:32

  Citrix CIO Paul Martine is the poster child for everything that Citrix markets to other CIOs.

• Programmed Group cuts down backup times — 70 per cent reduction

  By Hamish Barwick | 24 November, 2011 10:12

  Changing over from ageing Symantec software to CommVault Simpana has cut backup times by 70 per cent for Perth-based project services company, Programmed Group.

• 2012: The year of ‘big data’

  By Hamish Barwick | 23 November, 2011 11:32

  With the amount of information created and replicated expected to surpass 1.9 zettabytes in 2011, now is the time for enterprises to start using big data technology, according to analyst firm, IDC Australia.

• InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

  By InfoWorld staff | 21 November, 2011 22:10

  Everyone is a trend watcher. But at a certain point, to determine which trends will actually weave their way into the fabric of business computing, you need to first take a hard look at the technologies that gave life to the latest buzz phrases.

• vForum 2011: Virtualization tips from the education department

  By Diana Nguyen | 21 October, 2011 11:10

  The NSW Department of Education and Communities (DEC) -- formerly the Department of Education and Training -- first dipped its toes into virtualization back in 2004

• VMware aims to simplify management with new suites

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 19 October, 2011 04:19

  VMware hopes to simplify management and help enterprises virtualize more of their infrastructure, with new and updated software suites announced at VMworld Europe in Copenhagen.

• Microsoft cracks live migration problem

  By Joab Jackson | 17 September, 2011 08:01

  With the next release of Windows Server operating system, Microsoft has conquered one of the thorniest problems in virtualization: moving an operational virtual machine (VM) across a wide area network (WAN).

• 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

  By Doug Dineley | 15 September, 2011 20:06

  Microsoft claims 300 new and improved features in Windows Server 8, but after a few days in Redmond watching demos and stepping through lab sessions, we wonder whether the marketing guys accidentally left off a zero. It's hard to name a Windows Server feature that hasn't been tweaked, streamlined, wizardized, or completely revamped. Whatever grudge you may hold against Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 8 will almost certainly make amends.

• VMware releases free Compliance Checker tool

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 14 September, 2011 00:49

  VMware has released a new version of its Compliance Checker tool, which allows IT staff to to test the security of its vSphere 4.1 hosts, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.