server virtualization

Singaporean Webvisions virtualizes servers for SaaS delivery
Web hosting service provider Webvisions implements server virtualization to deliver its business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on its new Hyper Cloud platform.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 19-Apr-2011
Piecing together VMware's cloud strategy
Will VMware's lead in server virtualization translate to cloud supremacy? An uphill battle and a bevy of challengers make VMware's goal of bringing cloud to the enterprise a difficult one.
by: Steve Cimino, Associate Editor, SearchCloudComputing.com 18-Mar-2011

Singapore's utilities group virtualizes 60% servers on cloud

By adopting server virtualization including business apps, Sembcorp Industries has drastically reduced its server footprint, increased its operational efficiency, as well as minimized both planned and unplanned server downtimes, outages and failure.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 17-Mar-2011
Survey: Low server profile and high client profile in Asia
Springboard's latest research found that: APEJ organizations have a relatively "light" server profile, with only 35% of respondents having more than 25 servers in-house; India and China have the highest percentage of respondents with 500+ clients.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 24-Jan-2011

Verizon opens Hong Kong data center, expands APAC cloud biz

Verizon Business' new data center in Hong Kong is commissioned to support its growing private cloud business. Said to be "explicit" with where its customers' data resides, a spokesperson said: "If you opt to host your data here in Hong Kong, then it doesn't move around."
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 12-Oct-2010

Bollywood movie maker migrated 80% IT infrastructure to cloud

World's largest Bollywood pictures maker Hungama Digital Media Entertainment formulated a "cloud strategy” in 2008 to capture the cost efficiencies of cloud computing. Today, company runs about 80% of their infrastructure on the cloud using Amazon Web Services and has plans to extend its adoption of cloud services.
by: Carol Ko 07-Sep-2010
Survey: Enterprises challenged by timely virtual machine backup
Server virtualization adoption has seen continual rise in the enterprise space with 46% of organizations already virtualized between 51% to 85% of their servers. VMware was indicated as the virtualization platform of choice by 83% of the responding organizations in Commvault's latest survey.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 01-Sep-2010
New virtualization management certification for systems admins
Red Hat's Certified Virtualization Administrator certification comprises a hands-on training course and teaches IT professionals the technology know-how about deploying and managing virtual systems in a cloud computing infrastructure.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 24-Aug-2010
Law firm cuts 85% servers along private cloud journey
US-based law firm Foster Pepper PLLC has tripled its computing capacity while reducing its server count by 85% using unified storage and virtualization solutions. The firm is now able to instantly move a running virtual machine from one server to another "undetectable to the user."
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 19-Aug-2010
HNTB saves 238 new machines with server virtualization
The US-based construction design and management company, is on track to building a private cloud by consolidating its IT infrastructure to 12 servers and 250 virtual machines.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 11-Aug-2010