Common virtualisation security risks and mitigation advice

According to Gartner, 60 percent of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace by the end of 2012,  Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015.

Gartner also note that at the end of 2009, 18 percent of enterprise data center workloads that could [...]

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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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Desktop virtualisation ROI first and the same old same old for ISM

VMware's website references studies that show return on investments for desktop virtualization ranging from over 100% to almost 300%. but desktop virtualization will not lower capital expenditure as much and as quickly as server virtualization; however it will reduce the total cost of desktop ownership and make application deployment more flexible. It is argued that [...]

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