KVM is an important hypervisor and will compete storngly with VMWare and Microsoft now it has been incorporated in Red Hat's RHEV product. Read this report about IBM and Red Hat's promotion of Linux and KVM, as well as ITCandor's views of the state of Open Source software. Read more »
Virtustream – Delivering Advanced Managed Services Via Cloud Computing And IaaS
Virtustream are a long term provider of IaaS and Cloud Computing - offering ERP and other mission critical services. Their partnerships include Jersey Telecom. They're very important as the first of a new type of Cloud managed service provider. Read more »
PalmTree’s LiveEnsure – Cloud Computing SaaS Authentication
PalmTree has just launched LiveEnsure - entering the SaaS market with a service designed to provide lower prices for Cloud Computing developers. ITCandor also discovered the new strategy came as a result of the credit crunch. Read more »
Is Ingres 10 The Answer For Future Open Source Databases?
Ingres is an interesting alternative in the Open Source database and enterprise software areas. ITCandor looks into the opportunities. Read more »
Symantec Launches Hardware Appliances – A Non-Cloud Form Of IT Simplification
Symantec is entering the hardware market through the introduction of its NetBackup 5000 and Filestore N8000 appliances. ITCandor looks the simplification, integration and channel issues. Read more »
HP Acquires 3Par For $2.35 Billion – Expensive, But Positive, News
HP needs 3Par to improve growth rates in its storage systems business. In this article ITCandor looks at the growth rates of leading suppliers and discusses current trends. Read more »
The Sanctuary Group – Successful Virtual Client Deployment In A Large Dispersed Enterprise
The Sanctuary Group is a large 'social landlord' charity based in the UK. It has long and successful experience of deploying virtualisation - especially Terminal Services. Ben Andrews has some excellent observations for those of us considering the future of the corporate desktop. Read more »
NGD’s Data Centre Goes 100% Alternative Energy Supply With SmartestEnergy
NGD has signed a deal with SmartestEnergy to provide electricity only from renewable generation at its data centre site in Wales. ITCandor looks at this from government and CSR perspectives. Read more »
Intel vPro – In Praise Of Fat Clients
Physical PCs have some interesting and developing advantages over virtual clients. Intel's vPro enhancements will be good for business as long as software companies address its new hardware additions. Read more »
Fujitsu Opens ‘London North’ Data Centre And Launches IaaS Services
Fujitsu has a new award-winning data centre in the UK. Designated 'London North' it is the first in Europe to attain the Uptime Institute's Tier III accreditation. It is also launching IaaS Cloud computing services. Read more »
Racemi’s Image-Based Provisioning Ripe For Cloud Computing
The growth of virtualisation and Cloud Computing means that server images need to be constantly lifted and moved about a data centre, to the Cloud and back. Racemi is a specialist software expert in the area of Image-Based Provisioning. Read this article based on an interview with CEO Lawrence Guillory to learn more. Read more »
Fujitsu’s Cloud Computing Strategy – A Vision For The Networked Society
Fujitsu has come up with a strong Cloud Computing strategy. In this article ITCandor provides a commentary. Read more »
AMD’s New Opteron 6000 ‘Magny Cours’ Processors In HP, Dell And Acer Server Lines
AMD launched its new Opteron 6000 chips on March 29th 2010 and was endorsed by a number of OEMs. In this article ITCandor looks at the advantages. Read more »
AMD Outlines The Developing Web Hosting And Cloud Computing Ecosystem
There are three streams of development for Cloud Computing - Lamp, Azure and JAVA. In this analyst report ITCandor shows the evolving ecosystem, with help from AMD. Read more »
Fujitsu’s New CX1000 Primegy Server – Density Design For Cloud Computing With New Cooling
Fujitsu have designed a new modular server made from nodes and cooled by funnels, allowing data centres to do away with 'hot aisles' Read ITCandor's take on its announcement. Read more »
IBM Expands Its Cloud Computing Offerings – Highlights The Differences In Regional Adoption
On March 16th 2010 IBM announced new Cloud Computing services and resources. ITCandor analyses what they mean in terms of the development of this important market. Read more »
Fasthosts Brings Cloud Computing ‘Data Centre On Demand’ To SMBs Through Channel Partners
Fasthosts is expanding its business to launch Cloud Computing offerings to Small and Medium Businesses. In this article Martin looks at their approach and the likelihood of success Read more »
Is HP Missing SMB Opportunities By Focusing On Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing?
Martin rounds up three recent Cloud Computing announcements from HP and suggests it is missing the opportunities among SMBs. Read more »
Chilled Out HP Cuts CO2 Emissions With Fresh Air Cooling In Its New Wynyard Data Centre
HP is in the process of installing its very first customer at its brand new Wynyard data centre. Martin had a look round and thinks fresh air cooling is a valuable contribution to CSR. Read more »
Vision Solutions Double-Take Software Steps Into Cloud Computing With Amazon EC2 – Promises ‘Recovery as a Service’
Double-Take Software are partnering with Amazon's EC2 to take the first steps towards providing 'Recovery as a Service'. In this interview with Peter Laudenslager Martin outlines the approach. Read more »