Virtualisation, Offer, Businesses
VMware Offers Discount On vSphere Essentials
vSphere Essentials delivers virtualisation capabilities that help enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to consolidate and manage application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs. Through this promotion, VMware will offer SMBs virtualisation starting at less than $500 (£330). [...] VMware offers a range of solutions for SMBs that help make server virtualisation, centralised management, high availability and data protection affordable. The company pitches vSphere Essentials as ideal for businesses with fewer than 20 physical servers, and the company noted customers could upgrade the scale and functionality of the product at any time. [...] Virtualisation solutions company VMware announced a 50 percent discount on its vSphere Essentials solution, aimed at cost-conscious businesses. [...]
VMware Survey Touts Virtualisation Benefits
A VMware survey has, somewhat predictably, touted the benefits that virtualisation can offer small to medium businesses. [...] The good news is implementing virtualisation can greatly improve disaster preparedness and recovery so businesses can more easily meet customer demands and maintain their business operations, he said. [...] Even a very small business with only a few servers can benefit from virtualisation. said Andrews. Whether it's time freed up to respond to new business challenges, reduced hardware costs, improved disaster preparedness, or more satisfied end users, these results show that the benefits are significant across the board, and for all kinds of companies. . [...]
Star Launches Managed Virtualisation Service
The growth in adoption of virtualisation in UK businesses has been strong, with many companies now utilising virtualisation platforms for business-critical applications, said James Griffin, Head of Hosting Strategy at Star. Along with the many benefits of virtualisation, managing a critical business infrastructure in this way also brings with it specific challenges. [...] Star is by no means the only vendor to offer a managed virtualisation service. Earlier this year IT consultancy Glasshouse Technologies launched a managed service to help companies manage their virtualisation infrastructures, known as the Virtualisation Optimisation Service. [...] Business ISP Star is offering to take the increasingly complicated task of running virtualised servers off IT managers hands, after launching a fully managed virtualisation platform that allows business to shift their internal virtual machines onto servers in Star's own data centre. [...]
Virtualisation Reality Still Well Behind Vendor Hype
He said businesses large and small should take a cautious approach to virtualisation, starting small. Doing so reduces risks and offers businesses time for a learning curve, as well as giving them a good foundation on which to grow. [...] Businesses also need to plan ahead for the changes&mdash.to both management and processes&mdash.that virtualisation brings. [...] Businesses aren't using server virtualisation to the extent that many people might think, but use of the technology is going to grow rapidly, according to Gartner analysts. [...]
HP Gets Real About Desktop Virtualisation
What's kept businesses from more eagerly adopting desktop virtualisation in the past has been the complexity involved, the high cost per seat and the poor user experience, Groudan said. HP's new offerings address those hurdles, he said. [...] The recovery in the global economy, coupled with Microsoft's October release of Windows 7, is creating an environment in which businesses are taking a hard look at new technology, including desktop virtualisation, according to Hewlett-Packard officials. [...] HP also is bringing out new offerings for the data center end of the client virtualization environment, introducing three new client virtualisation architectures that touch on Citrix Systems' XenDesktop 4 platform and XenApp application virtualization technology, and VMware's View 4 client virtualisation offering, Carlat said. [...]
Should Your Corporate Head Be in the E-Mail Cloud?
Smaller providers, such as Zoho, offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, and even the big players have gotten into the game, with Microsoft offering a hosted version of Exchange and IBM just releasing an SAAS (software as a service) version of Lotus Notes. [...] Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits. [...] Of course, the 800-pound gorilla in this environment is Google, which has tailored its Gmail and Google Apps offerings for businesses of any size. In fact, a common new feature in many enterprise applications has been Gmail and Google Apps integration. [...]
Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered
Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection for business-critical processes. [...] New FT products today are coming from companies with solutions in software, not hardware. This gets a bit tricky. Rather than ask if they can be defined as fault tolerant, which they can, the question is what workloads are they capable of tackling, and are they able to harness the true power inherent in virtualisation and processor technologies, which is doubtful. [...] Another interesting aspect is that, even though they developed along separate paths, virtualisation and fault tolerance are made for each other. Full-function fault tolerance makes continuous availability (CA) of (and within) virtualised IT environments possible. [...]
Communication barriers waste cash at SMBs
Customers People New / Businesses Offer Customers / Devices Companies New st. [...] As more and more SMBs turn to mobile communications solutions to stay competitive in a mobile marketplace, Hamann says SMBs must choose solutions that offer flexibility and scalability. With clients using various technologies such as VoIP, along with the plethora of mobile devices and operating systems, finding a solution that achieves widespread compatibility is no easy task, especially for small businesses with limited budgets and technical experitise. [...] Communications barriers and latencies are costing cost small and medium businesses (SMBs) up to 40 percent of their productive time, averaging to more than £3000 per employee, according to a report. [...]
SMEs Offered Virtual Disaster Recovery Service
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 40 percent of businesses never reopen following a disaster. The Association of Records Managers and Administrators cited 60 percent of businesses affected close within two years. Weidenhammer said it would partner with Plan B to offer the vRescue service to customers. [...] Backup and disaster recovery specialist Weidenhammer teams up with UK IT firm Plan B to offer cost-conscious businesses disaster recovery IT service vRescue. [...] Information technology firm Weidenhammer announced is launching vRescue, an on-demand disaster recovery IT service aimed at providing small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) with business continuity solution via a fully-managed backup and recovery service that quickly restores critical applications and data. [...]
Microsoft Partners Citrix For Desktop Virtualisation
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Citrix Systems aimed at promoting the two companies' end-to-end virtualisation packages for businesses. One particularly aggressive facet of the new alliance has Microsoft and Citrix offering VMware View customers the ability to trade in 500 licenses at no additional cost, reflecting the increased competitiveness in the virtualisation industry as a whole. [...] The partnership announcement follows another Microsoft virtualisation initiative. On 22 February, the company released two business-focused virtualisation applications, App-V 4.6 and MED-V 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate, designed to better integrate proprietary applications into businesses' evolving IT infrastructure. [...] Microsoft and Citrix are also attempting to fire a broadside into VMware with the Rescue for VMware VDI promotion, which allows VMware View customers to trade in up to 500 licenses at no additional cost. Another promotion offers new Microsoft-Citrix virtualisation customers about 50 percent off the estimated retail price for virtual desktop infrastructure. [...]
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