• Taking the plunge — desktop virtualization

  By Brad Howarth | 12 December, 2011 09:00

  Natural disasters, bring-your-own (BYO) computing and the overall familiarity that many organisations now have with virtualization has generated a groundswell of activity, with CIOs seeing desktop virtualization as a means to reassert their authority over the end-points in their business.

• Microsoft and HP to collaborate on public and private cloud services

  By Sophie Curtis | 12 December, 2011 08:29

  HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft Office 365 and its on-premise equivalents.

• NSW DET, AARNet, click through to collaborative learning in schools

  By Lisa Banks | 02 November, 2011 15:27

  Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has enabled the NSW Department of Education and Training to collaborate learning for students across the state.

• Q&A: Barwon Health CIO, Ann Larkins

  By Chloe Herrick | 02 November, 2011 12:02

  A tertiary nursing education and years of clinical experience combined with a Masters in Business Technology helped prepare Ann Larkins for the CIO role at Barwon Health.

• Citrix: Virtual desktops about to become cheaper than physical ones

  By Tim Greene | 27 October, 2011 06:44

  Citrix claims it's driven down costs to the point that next year it will be cheaper to deploy virtual desktops than traditional desktops.

• 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

  By Kevin Fogarty | 30 July, 2010 01:56

  More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  By Bernard Golden | 08 May, 2010 00:37

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• Desktop Virtualization: Comparing Options Frustrates IT

  By Kevin Fogarty | 04 May, 2010 04:55

  Virtual desktops-once the most rigid, least friendly way to put applications in front of end users-have become a hot topic by promising to deliver the security and easy maintenance that was always desktop virtualization's strength. The trouble: Desktop virtualization now comes in so many varieties that even vendors confuse terms referring to the flavors.

• Private clouds? A walk in the park

  By Rodney Gedda | 07 April, 2010 07:10

  With a jurisdiction that covers nearly 4 million hectares, Parks Victoria is the central authority in Victoria for the management of natural areas across the state. The information systems requirements at Parks Victoria were becoming increasingly demanding, and a recent implementation of a virtualised private cloud has set the stage for rapid growth.

• Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources

  By Kevin Fogarty | 01 March, 2010 06:20

  Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren't taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.

Whitepapers about virtualisation

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  Optimising your Infrastructure for Cloud Computing - Best practices for managing a cloud IT environment

  This white paper examines some of the forces behind rising adoption of cloud-based solutions, explores how cloud architectures impact data centers and discusses a series of concrete practices and technologies that can help companies collect the benefits of cloud computing without compromising uptime or overwhelming their power and cooling systems.

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  Is your data center ready for virtualisation? Important power considerations for virtualised IT environments

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  Increasing Uptime and Efficiency with Switched PDUs - Two ways to use rack PDUs for more than just distributing power

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  The Role of UPS Power Management in Virtualisation and Cloud Computing