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Citrix open source virtual infrastructure

In a bid to gain market share, Citrix have open sourced their XenServer virtual infrastructure tools. XenServer customers will now have free access to P2V conversion tools, live motion and centralised management & partching tools, thus reducing the cost of entry to a virtual infrastructure and encouraging more businesses to adopt virtualisation.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Tue, 24/02/2009 - 14:22

Virtualisation will see strong growth in 2009

Sales of virtualisation software are set to grow by 43% in 2009, according to analyst firm Gartner. In a recent Microscope report industry commentators stated that virtulisation management software would be the largest growth area, but server virtualisation software will see strong growth and Hosted Virtual Desktop sales are set to treble.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Wed, 18/02/2009 - 09:41

VMware sets world record for web server performance

Today, VMware accounced that it has set a world record for web server performance. This is great news for the world of server virtualisation, as many businesses are still unsure of the comparitive performance of physical and virtual servers. Physical boxes are a known quantity to most IT administrators. Introducing another layer (the virtualisation Hypervisor) between the hardware and the operating system MUST impact perfo

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Tue, 17/02/2009 - 15:24

FalconStor CDP with VMware Webinar

On Thursday next week FalconStor, one of Cloud Data’s key technology partners, will be running a webinar showcasing their FalconStor CDP with VMware technology. The webinar is available to partners and their customers. Details as follows:

Topic: Protecting VMware with CDP
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time: 11:00 am, GMT
Meeting Number: 488 601 726
Meeting Password: tpo1tp

Please click the link below to see more information, or to join the meeting.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 13/02/2009 - 19:37

Cloud Data Hosting Beta Test Underway

We are off an running with beta test customers on the Cloud Data VMware hosting platform. It’s early days and we are ironing out a few little niggles but on the whole feedback is extremely positive.

Currently we have deployed Ubuntu and Centos instances on the platform, we still need some test customers to try out some Windows Server instances.

Anyone interested in assisting us with testing in return for 3 months hosting free of charge should contact us via our website at http://www.clouddata.com/beta/signup.html

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 13/02/2009 - 13:21