server virtualization

Elastichosts enters APAC with Equinix HK data center
By housing its infrastructure in Equinix's network-dense IBX data center, Elastichosts can directly interconnect with the major networks to reduce latency and offer greater redundancy and faster connection speeds to its customers.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 13-Mar-2013
Kansai University cuts 30% ICT costs with learning platform upgrade
By migrating its education research system to the cloud, Kansai University has consolidated its 21 servers to two with server virtualization. Together with cloud-based file storage, it has reduced 30% ICT costs, and cut power consumption by 46%.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Oct-2012
US schools migrate data to cloud for big savings
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's server consolidation exercise will save local schools US$10,000-$15,000 a year, funds that can be spent on other education programs. The state also expects to save about US$1,000,000 annually on support services.
by: eGov Innovation editors 03-Oct-2012
Japan university cuts server set up time by 80%
Japan's Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University upgrades its private cloud with an add-on integrated private-cloud package to its existing administrative information system, thereby reducing the set up time for temporary use servers from from five days to one day.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 03-Oct-2012
APAC SMB cloud services market to reach US$19.8b in 2015
The Asia Pacific SMB cloud services market opportunity in 2012 is worth US$7.6 billion, and will grow 38% annually, reaching US$19.8 billion in 2015. China and India will continue to led the growth markets for cloud services in the region.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 24-Sep-2012
Big data, VM sprawl challenge virtualization adopters in HK
The unintended consequences of increased server virtualization adoption in 2011 is virtual machine sprawl. In many cases this can actually increase the total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure and wipe out the economic benefits associated with virtualization, Gartner said.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 30-Dec-2011
Survey: 33% biz to boost server virtualization with Ethernet fabrics
To cope with the increased usage of server virtualization, more than one-third of the responding organizations of a newly released survey planned to pilot Ethernet fabric architecture within the next six months. A further 25% said they intended to do so within 12 months.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 17-Nov-2011
S Korea's Dongbu CNI targets SMBs with cloud service platform
The South Korean IT service provider will provide SaaS for various applications, including real-time transportation management system (TMS) service, server-based computing, IT service management (ITSM), and enterprise portal and energy analytics.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 27-Jul-2011
Dell, CITIC Telecom CPC co-launch cloud services in APAC
Called Smartcloud, the new cloud services comprise a virtual server solution with high availability disaster recovery capability, and collaboration SaaS including email, calendaring and other collaboration tools -- at 99.9% availability.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-Jul-2011
Italian hosting company launched open source cloud offerings
Dnshosting.it migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization from VMware to become part of the open source community that uses Kernel-based virtual machine, which is also expected to gain added flexibility and interoperability for its cloud deployments.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 10-Jun-2011