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Outages cost large firms US$288K
News update Over 90 percent of firms worldwide had to execute their disaster recovery plan last year, new report notes. Downtime in Asia costs US$150,000 on average.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Service level management, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Asia, Virtual Environment, IT Professional, Disaster Recovery Planning, systems engineering
Getting the IT department ready for 2009
News The Corporate IT Forum says its most senior members are planning to invest in IT with careful budgeting and trimming discretionary spending as key priorities.
Tags: Virtualization, Green IT, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Green IT, Outsourcing, Business, cost savings, Quocirca
Space for e-learning in emerging markets
News Extending the physical classroom to the virtual may mean more get to learn in countries where demand is constantly rising and facilities are limited.
Tags: IT training, Web 2.0, E-learning, Classroom, India, software company, Japan, Environment, software, Emerging Market
Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment
Techguide In efforts to virtualize everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. But do watch out for caveats.
Tags: Virtualization, E-mail servers, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Environment, Virtual Machine, unified messaging, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
Dealing with time synchronization issues in VMs
Techguide Virtualization brings one important point to Windows administrators: time settings. Make an early decision on how to approach virtual machine time before it bites you.
Tags: Virtualization, Virtual Environment, Virtual Machine, Tool, domain controller, Windows administrator, VMware Inc., NTP, host system, dialog box
Parallels plugs USB links into virtual desktops
News The virtualization company is partnering with Silex to incorporate USBs into customers' virtual networks.
Tags: Components, Virtualization, Desktops, Virtual Desktop, Scanner, Virtual Environment, USB, Parallels Virtuozzo, operating system, Environment
Making the choice between virtual and physical servers
Techguide "Virtualize everything" is a popular M.O. in IT these days, but there are times when physical servers make more sense.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Virtualization, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Scott Lowe, Virtual Environment, Storage, Server, Hardware
Emergency excitement online
Blogs Video game Zero Hour: America’s Medic lets responders try out real-time strategies in hazardous virtual environments, w...
Symantec, VMware team up for disaster recovery
News The security and virtualization vendors will provide support for mutual customers using VMware ESX and Veritas Cluster Server.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery, VERITAS Cluster Server, Virtual Environment, Virtual Machine, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Server, failover
VMware pushes hosted virtualization
News Company has launched a service aimed at allowing hosted providers to supply their customers with virtualized environments.
Tags: Operating systems, Web services, Services
IBM Unix servers get x86 Linux apps
News Big Blue is taking a new approach to try to lure Linux customers to its Power-based servers.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Linux server OS, Open source
VirtualBox provides security that's easy to setup, maintain for free
Techguide Using Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox, Linux security tools and threat testing can be executed on a Windows platform.
Use Virtual PC 2007 to access a Complete PC Backup image in Vista
Techguide Find out how to use the Complete PC Backup and Restore, normally used to restore the entire hard disk, to access and restore single files.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data backup, disaster recovery
IBM churns from Indian research lab
News IT vendor's software lab in Bangalore has conducted over 1,400 customer engagements, showcasing technologies that include collaboration tools.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Software
Virtualisation's good and bad
Insight Virtualisation breaks the link between software and hardware; great for managers, but may not be so good for others.
