VM news stories

Virtualisation
Survey: Vast majority of businesses moving VMs to cloud
Today Druva released the results of its survey to determine the state of virtualisation in the cloud, with a number of interesting findings.

Virtualisation
Unitrends launches VM backup solution for VMware admin
vBE converges enterprise-grade virtual backup software, ransomware detection, and fully integrated cloud storage options.

Cloud
Fujitsu develops cloud operations technology for mission critical processes
This new technology enables maintenance while avoiding high process load periods for all VMs.

Commerce Systems
Introducing Kata Containers, a new open source project backed by Intel
The Kata Containers project will initially comprise six components, including the Agent, Runtime, Proxy, Shim, Kernel and packaging of QEMU 2.9.

Microsoft
The war on cloud pricing: Object storage moves into the mainstream
451 Research says that virtual machines have been the traditional battleground for price cuts as providers seek to gain attention and differentiation.

Storage
Brocade brings in virtual machine visibility for storage networks
“Whole-brain imaging is critical to our research but advances in imaging and microscopy place new demands on our network and storage infrastructure"

Virtualisation
Case study: How did this major hotel reduce VM backup storage by 3x?
It is becoming increasingly vital for businesses to keep up with the ongoing trend of virtualisation. Here's how this IT infrastructure did it.