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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Virtualisation and Asset Management - Missed opportunites

A key requirement for energy efficiency, for virtualisation programs, for sharing requirements with cloud suppliers is the collection and processing of relevant data to focus a program of events concerned with asset management.

In terms of energy efficiency it is easy to see that one would have include energy management into an asset management program if [...]

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The best 5 online green IT calculators

Online green IT calculators can be a first step in a green IT audit. Here are five useable calculators to estimate the benefits of green IT projects.

1. Forrester's Green IT Calculator -– estimates the energy usage of computers, monitors and telecom, including the number of IT assets, energy draw and hours of up-time and you [...]

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