Virtualisation and sustainability - 2010

Virtualisation offers efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity.

Pre-virtualisation an average server utilization figure was 10% – in other words 90% server redundancy adding no value

Virtualisation significantly helps to reduce energy consumption, an organisations carbon footprint, and  running costs

Virtualisation market is growing rapidly especially SMB. The current market penetration of the [...]

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Cloud Computing; Information Security and Compliance

Cloud computing is the opportunity to utilize IT resources more effectively. For SMBs under cost constraints, for organizations with global offices or a plan to go global, the idea of storing data in the cloud is striking. But cloud computing  and high profile security incidents involving google and twitter, for example, highlight security concerns [...]

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Cloud Computing - Where is the love?

I did think of entitling this post 'Back to the future in cloud cuckoo land' but decided that was a bit harsh but it is easy to get nonplussed with the avalanche of white noise surrounding 'cloud computing'.

Cloud computing including the notion of software as a service (Saas),  is when you run software over the [...]

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