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Saatchi Gallery opens with virtual platform

Saatchi Gallery opens with virtual platform

London's new Saatchi Gallery has adopted a virtualised IT platform for increased storage capacity, disaster recovery and security control.

The gallery, home to the collection of Charles Saatchi which re-opened in a new venue on Thursday after a three-year closure, runs a high available virtualised IT system built using a combination of technologies from VMware and Double-Take.

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Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Recently Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president of VMware, said the traditional server operating system was obsolete. Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the future of the OS and cloud-based services.

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What's Red Hat doing in the virtualisation business?

What's Red Hat doing in the virtualisation business?

Even before Red Hat bought the virtualisation company Qumranet, with its Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform, Red Hat had made it clear that it was moving into virtualisation in a big way.

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Microsoft visits Wall Street to roll out HPC Server 2008

Microsoft visits Wall Street to roll out HPC Server 2008

This may seem like a weird time to go to Wall Street to announce a new operating system, but that's what Microsoft did Monday.

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VMWorld 2008: VMware touts 'the cloud' at user conference

VMWorld 2008: VMware touts 'the cloud' at user conference

At chief executive Paul Maritz's first VMworld conference, the company previewed a broad set of technology designed to help enterprises become cloud computing providers to their employees.

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Focus on virtualisation as financial world shakes

Focus on virtualisation as financial world shakes

Users need to warily embrace virtualisation, according to speakers at Interop assessing how to proceed with technology investments in the face of possible IT budget cuts.

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