No enterprise thaw for Vista

Negative perception of the Windows Vista operating system is growing, says eWeek.com.

Two recent events should have opened the gates holding back enterprise adoption of Windows Vista: the release of Service Pack 1 - typically the point at which businesses begin to deploy a new Windows operating system - and Windows XP's exodus from the OEM channel.

However, in a recent survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Research for eWEEK, nearly three-quarters of respondents indicated that SP1 would have no effect on their Windows adoption plans.

MetaRAM and Intel are combining their chip technologies to increase the system memory in servers and workstations, reports eWeek.com.

MetaRAM is upgrading its memory chip set to work with new double data rate 3 (DDR3) memory standards that can be found in new workstations and servers based on Intel processors.

MetaRAM is looking to team up with Intel to take advantage of new DDR3 memory standards and increase the system memory in servers and work stations.

Spurred by the business benefits gained from server virtualisation, enterprises now are embracing desktop virtualisation for many of the same reasons: flexibility, lower costs and ease of management, says Network World.

They can access their desktops from virtually any device residing anywhere, as long as they have good network connections.

Desktop virtualisation requires a hypervisor, such as VMware ESX, Citrix Systems XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V, running on a data centre server to host the desktop images.