http://www.novosco.com Virtualise Your Infrastructure. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:31:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More evidence of virtualisation gaining traction in Irish business circles in Enterprise Ireland's eBusiness Live circular... The idea of IT virtualisation is fast gaining popularity, but it can be a hard concept to pin down. Different providers, vendors and resellers can define the term in their own way, depending on the product each ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/04/18/virtual-world-cutting-costs-and-complexity/ A couple of days late, but I wanted to wait a while just in case it was an April Fool.  Citrix have just announced a new "per server" pricing model for XenServer - not per socket or per core, just per physical server. This is interesting for a couple of reasons: ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/04/03/new-citrix-xenserver-pricing-model/ It has started. All over the internet there's a battle going, to command mindshare in relation to the virtualisation space. Microsoft and Citrix are making a full frontal attack on VMware's dominance. Broadly speaking, the rhetoric goes some thing like this: The vendor story Microsoft - "We have a complete end to ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/03/29/the-virtualisation-wars/ Dublin, Ireland, dateline…SIAC, one of Ireland’s major construction groups, has chosen Novosco to design, implement and support its new virtualised and mission-critical infrastructure catering for the industry’s ever-changing IT requirements. This dynamic computing environment, implemented by Novosco, will provide SIAC with a flexible and resilient backed infrastructure and will allow the ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/03/03/siac-chooses-novosco-to-virtualise-their-production-server-environment/ Virtualisation to curb carbon emissions from Irish IT Industry Dublin, Ireland, dateline… Energy consumption is currently the number one cost for datacentres and virtualisation could be the key to make Irish IT Industry more energy efficient, according to David McAuley, Energy Management expert with Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI). McAuley spoke at Novosco’s ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/02/14/energy-is-number-one-cost-for-datacentres/ http://www.novosco.com/articles/2008/02/03/virtualisationirishexaminer/ Yesterday saw the official launch of Novosco in the Baby Grand in the Grand Opera House, Belfast. The day proved to be a huge success with almost 100 attendees from the combined RTSL and 4sol customer base. We had 2 guest speakers, Donal Durkan from Invest NI and ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2007/09/27/novosco-launch-roundup/ £600,000 of new business marks a fantastic start for Novosco. Today sees the launch of a new and exciting IT virtualisation firm to serve the All-Island market. Novosco, a derivative of two Latin words meaning ‘new understanding’ is the result of the merger of two of Northern Ireland’s most successful ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2007/09/26/all-ireland-it-virtualisation-firm-launches-in-northern-ireland/ No, this is not advice on how best to do the above-mentioned.  It's a link to a blog I found from a Dutch guy documenting his way through a VMware VI3 upgrade. From the site, "This blog was formed as an external documentation hub for the implementation of a VMWare Virtual ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2007/09/03/documenting-a-virtualisation-project/ Merger of two leading IT companies creates a unique Irish IT Offering 20 New Hi tech jobs to be created Two of Ireland’s most successful indigenous IT companies, Real Time Systems Ltd (RTSL) and 4sol Ltd. today (Tuesday 1 May 2007) announced the merger of their business operations. This merger will ... http://www.novosco.com/articles/2007/05/01/is-this-4real/