According to VMware, with companies using virtualisation to consolidate ten or more physical servers into a single machine, power use is being reduced by 80 to 90 percent, saving large amounts of money and tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Software provider Attenex and solutions specialist Kazeon have announced that they are forming an alliance to provide enterprises, legal service providers and law firms a combined package of eDiscovery software and services.
Rackspace’s hosting company Mosso has unveiled a new cloud storage service that gives developers the ability to store a virtually unlimited amount of data on the Web.
IDC is tipping the future of virtualisation to be mobility and live migration, while adding that so far the rapid embracement of the technology has helped change the economics of IT by reducing both capital and operational costs.
NetApp is taking strides towards long-life, self-healing archiving with a new project it is working on in conjunction with the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).