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From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Parallels for Mac cozies up to Vista On the heels of Apple's launch of the Intel Mac, a company called Parallels captured the spotlight with an eponymous product that does for Mac OS X what VMware Workstation did for the Windows and Linux world -- full-blown hardware virtualization in a workstation package running natively on the Mac OS. Parallels allowed less-than-satisfied Windows users to jump to the Mac and to take their Windows applications with them. Windows-only applications and games were no longer a sticking point. June 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Gourley Imagine merging 11 companies’ IT departments, creating a standard communications platform that can withstand battlefield conditions, and launching an SOA effort all at the same time. And having it in operation just two years later. That was the challenge Robert Gourley faced as CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which gathers, analyzes, coordinates, and distributes intelligence data for the U.S. armed forces and in partnership with various civilian spy agencies. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Desktop VM managers make a virtual two-horse race The virtualized desktop is finally coming of age. Once the purview of the technorati, desktop virtualization is rapidly evolving into a viable solution for delivering mainstream applications and services – thanks in large part to the efforts of innovative third-party developers such as Kidaro and Sentillion. By pushing the boundaries of what defines a virtualized environment, these vendors are obliterating the technical and logistical barriers that have long stymied enterprise IT efforts to leverage desktop virtualization, both to reduce TCO and to minimize the overall corporate security surface area. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT VMware ACE lags the pace VMware’s ACE (Assured Computing Environment) is the virtualization leader’s own take on a virtual desktop management layer. Featuring a policy-based configuration model dubbed VRM (Virtual Rights Management), ACE allows IT administrators to lock down and control virtual machine access to devices and networks as well as encrypt VM images and apply various expiration and timeout rules. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Platforms |
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