Virtualisation

IT Really Does MatterBig changes are brewing on the CIO horizon, as the days of internal IT cost-cutting appear to be numbered. There is only so much an enterprise can save through infrastructure efficiency and commodity panel contracts. The next big wave will centre on productivity, innovation and a renewed ... read more..

Date: March-June 2012 (various dates)Time: DayLocation: NationwideCost: Free of ChargeEnrol: Click hereOverview: This year, Tech.Days events for IT implementers and professionals are changing. We are bringing information, ideas and inspiration to your doorstep with a series of IT camp workshops across the country. The camps are designed to deliver more ... read more..

The Increasing Complexity of Application Integration Calls for New ApproachesOrgansations are deploying a wider range of applications in different deployment models, and often finding that seamless integration is the key for realisation of the true business value of these investments. The traditional approaches to application integration have failed to deliver ... read more..

August 2011 A collection of recent NCC research, thought leadership, presentations, webinars and news to help those interested in professional development get up to speed with the key IT management issues in mobility, unified comms and VDI. The workplace is changing and technology is at the forefront of that ... read more..

NCC's Quarterly Members Conference, 28 June 2011 The Trades Union Congress, London Download the presentations Cloud Strategy (4.2MB PDF) Steven Heeney, IBM Cloud Computing Strategist, IBM UK VDI - Technology roadmap (6.2MB PDF) ... read more..

desktop virtualisation Desktop virtualisation (VDI) is a key enabler helping smart businesses move forward and become future-proof. Fergus Murphy, head of client marketing, Dell Large Enterprise, EMEA, discusses considerations for desktop virtualisation and how it could be a solution that saves the CIO in this era of mobility. The static ... read more..

future of the desktop New desktop approaches, such as virtual desktops, present exciting options for improved service delivery but require a change in mindset to really work. Paul Burke, director of products at Centrix Software, provides a thought-provoking insight Is desktop virtualisation the answer? While the shift from a physical to a web-centric ... read more..

VDI - case study For Keystone, securing the continuity of our business and key applications is essential. Having survived the 2005 Buncefield oil depot fire (our headquarters were next door), we wanted to enhance our disaster recovery strategy and so looked at how our ICT infrastructure could improve business continuity, ... read more..

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Infrastructure Selecting the right storage options for your virtual environment can be a difficult task if you arent sure what you are looking for. In this eguide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, discover various storageoptions that support virtualization, including shared storage. Learn about common mistakes IT pros make when choosing storage forvirtualization and ... read more..

All the rage, definitely here to stay, enterprise ready virtualisations perceived ability to address many of IT managements biggest issues reducing costs, enabling rapid deployment and improving system availability is winning it lots of plaudits. But, to quote Clive Longbottom of Quocirca (page 8), one of the problems ... read more..

Mint Hotel, Manchester, 30th March 2011 The question was. has vendor hype devalued the promise of unified communications and caused confusion with the move to cloud computing? The conference had a good mix of delegates across the sectoral divide approx 35% public sector and 65% across all verticals of ... read more..

31 March 2011 Download the presentations: Cliff Mills, Research Analyst, National Computing Centre (260KB PDF) Andrew Cooke, Foundation IT (900KB PDF) Tim French, Wavecrest, IT Director (270KB PDF)) 55% of organisations have so far failed to ... read more..

cloud computing Cloud computing is arguably one of the hottest topics in computing at the moment. It seems from the evidence of the past few years though that this particular topic is about more than just hype. Sin John, distinguished engineer at Symantec, provides a fresh take on ... read more..

virtual desktop infrastructure If you were a fly on the wall at any IT departments strategy planning meeting for 2011, chances are that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be on the agenda. While the financial arguments rage (quite correctly) about the costs and benefits, it is the good old foot ... read more..

cloud computing All businesses who are thinking about embracing the cloud as their core IT service delivery route quite rightly should fully understand the risks as well as the well-documented rewards The main concerns centre around service reliability, accessibility and security of data stored in the cloud. Here, Mark Seemann, ... read more..

Early signs for 2011 are of a recovering economy, however cost cutting for many and cost containment for all are still very firmly driving our strategic thinking in IT terms. It does feel cautiously like the worst is over, certainly in the private sector, however, theres probably still some way ... read more..

virtualisation Robin Webster, infrastructure consultant, Centiq. While the path to virtualisation is often sought by those seeking efficiency savings and service flexibility, if not planned carefully, it can make IT management more complicated, more costly and increase risks to the business. When planning a virtualised IT environment, organisations all too ... read more..

From Computerworld UK Half of VMware's customer base is virtualising Microsoft Exchange and 65% virtualize SQL Server, but the majority of VMware customers are not virtualizing SAP and Oracle applications, according to survey data released by VMware. VMware, which makes the most widely used x86 server virtualisation software, revealed the ... read more..

virtual desktop infrastructureVDI is being adopted by companies, both large and small, to improve the experience of the user. Mark Bradley, consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), explores the issues that need to be considered before embarking on the VDI journey.VDI is like any technology when implemented badly it will ... read more..

VMworld 2010 in San Francisco was themed virtual roads, actual clouds, and VMware has stated that it is not a matter of if cloud computing becomes mainstream, but when. VMware is positioning itself to be the leader of the cloud era, but the implications of this paradigm shift are immense, ... read more..

Server monitoring and power management vendor 1E has announced version 2.0 of its NightWatchman product, enhancing its support for the management of virtual servers. Independent research in 2009 suggested that 15% of servers in data centers were not doing any useful work, and were costing $25 billion per year. Organizations ... read more..

Pano Logic, a developer of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology, has launched a bundle of its technology offering plug and play functionality for companies in its target audience to get a first taste of desktop virtualization. We believe the proposition looks interesting for SMEs wanting to dip their toe ... read more..

30 June 2010 Download the slides from this event Introduction (420 KB pdf) IBM Power Systems (4 MB pdf) VMware - Virtualisation Strategy (1.4 MB pdf) IBM System X: 5th Generation Enterprise X-Architecture: ... read more..

Server virtualization is now a well-understood technology, with many IT departments implementing products to reduce server count and increase data center agility. However, the emerging market of desktop virtualization continues to bemuse and confuse, as vendors offer a smorgasbord of products and solutions purporting to reduce the cost and ... read more..

23-24 June 2010 A simple choice for 2010 Find out what's hot on the IT agenda at IT Decisions 2010, including the latest developments in: ... read more..

15th June 2010 Download the slides from this event (7.5 MB PDF) An Executive briefing and workshop that takes a business-led journey to understand the challenges, approaches and benefits to delivering a leading edge server and storage virtualisation strategy. This workshop has been designed for businesses that are either ... read more..

09 June 2010 This Executive Workshop will focus on the organisational challenge to eliminate IT complexity by displacing ageing infrastructures within their data centres. The case study driven programme will demonstrate how XIV storage technology is having a dramatic impact for organisations that have more than 20TBs of data ... read more..

virtualisationDesktop virtualisation has been the hottest topic dominating technology headlines this year. Analyst firm, Gartner, says the worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 million units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009. Worldwide HVD revenue will grow from about $1.3 billion to ... read more..

green IT As part of our look at Greener and more sustainable IT Jason Meers takes a look at repurposing IT Save time and money by converting your old PCs and laptops into thin clients. IT seems that every 10 years or so the computer industry re-invents itself and gives us new ... read more..