Leading UK Charity Embraces Cloud Computing With Rosslyn Analytics

NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity specialising in child protection, aims to deliver cost savings by using Rosslyn Analytics’ award-winning cloud-based spend analytics and contract management platform, RA.Pid. “Rosslyn Analytics has developed a unique offering that significantly reduces time and cost spent manually obtaining, managing and reporting data – these resources combined with the savings… Continue reading Leading UK Charity Embraces Cloud Computing With Rosslyn Analytics

Ignite Technologies is Verified Citrix Ready for Use with Citrix XenDesktop

Ignite Technologies, Inc., the leader in providing Enterprise Content Delivery Solutions enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver and manage digital content, today announced that it has joined the Citrix Ready® program and has completed the Citrix Ready process that verifies its Enterprise Content Delivery platform is compatible with Citrix® XenDesktop®. Enterprises leverage desktop virtualization solutions… Continue reading Ignite Technologies is Verified Citrix Ready for Use with Citrix XenDesktop

F5 Teams with NetApp and VMware to Enable Live Migration for Applications

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced improved live virtual machine migration capabilities for customers leveraging NetApp® unified storage and VMware virtualization solutions. Based on recent performance testing results, this new solution combines the companies’ technologies to help customers seamlessly migrate live virtual machines between data centers without any perceivable disruption… Continue reading F5 Teams with NetApp and VMware to Enable Live Migration for Applications

Survey of Library Use of Cloud Computing

This report examines closely how academic, public and special libraries are using cloud computing services. It looks at use of specific services from Amazon, Google, Rackspace, DuraCloud, DropBox and many others, as well as more general questions regarding the use of cloud services, such as security issues, overall cost, impact on IT staff, data reliability… Continue reading Survey of Library Use of Cloud Computing

CompTIA and ITpreneurs Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Credential

CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral skills certifications for the global information technology (IT) workforce, and ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, announced today they are collaborating on a new cloud computing skills credential. The CompTIA Cloud Essentials exam, scheduled for availability in December 2011, will validate knowledge and… Continue reading CompTIA and ITpreneurs Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Credential

School System Implements Intelligent Clustered Operating System

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and disaster recovery needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that the Morgan County School System of Morgan County, Tenn. has deployed Scale’s data storage solution to enable virtualization and centralization of data for teachers, students and… Continue reading School System Implements Intelligent Clustered Operating System

VMware vSphere ESXi Migration Flowchart

With release of vSphere ESXi 5, its end of the road for ESX hypervisor (last version was 4.1 for ESX). Follow link below for ESXi migration flowchart. Rick Vanover lists precise details about ESX migration to ESXi and what steps to take for a proper migration. Be sure to download the zip file below and… Continue reading VMware vSphere ESXi Migration Flowchart

Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre

Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes that a massive data centre for US social networking giant Facebook will launch the vibrant industrial region into the digital age as a European data traffic hub. “The digital industry will be an important addition to our town,” Mayor Karl Petersen told AFP. With… Continue reading Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre