EMC drives virtual server services

VMware might be treated by its parent company, storage vendor EMC, as a free-standing subsidiary, but when it comes to services relating to VMware's server virtualisation stack, those services get the EMC brand and the money ends up on the EMC books, states The Register.

Thanks to the Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, and other disaster recovery and high-availability software that EMC has cooked up for its disc arrays over the years, as well as the server-based backup and recovery software EMC got when it acquired Legato Systems, the company has plenty of know-how about keeping applications up and running when disasters strike servers and storage.

Now EMC wants to leverage that expertise to bring server customers deploying its VMware ESX Server and related virtual-machine management technologies under the EMC disaster-recovery umbrella.

As the IT budgets are shrinking among corporates and organisations, Gartner suggests some methods to save costs at data centres, reports CXOToday.

"IT managers are expected to deliver an ever-increasing level of service, and many are charged with showing tangible financial savings as part of cost-cutting measures," said Rakesh Kumar, VP of research at Gartner.

According to Kumar, virtualisation is also a good way to control energy costs, and its effective use can reduce server energy consumption by 82% and floor space by 86%. "Removing a single x86 server will result in savings of more than $400 a year in energy costs alone," he said.

SuperGeo Technologies, a provider of GIS solutions, is set to release the enterprise-class GIS software - SuperGIS Server by the end of June, according to Spatial News.

SuperGIS Server is a set of comprehensive and server-based GIS software which is featured with out-of-the-box, centrally managed, and rich standards-based.

Besides facilitating enterprises to centrally manage GIS data, SuperGIS Server also allows enterprises to integrate numerous GIS services and analysis applications to the server and distribute the services via the Internet.