Servers incorporate virtualisation

New servers primed to run embedded hypervisors will take virtualisation into the mainstream, reports VNUnet.

Within a couple of years, all enterprise servers will come with virtualisation capabilities as standard, following the release of embedded virtual machine hypervisors this month by VMware and XenSource.

IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, HP and NEC are just some of the vendors that have announced they will ship VMware's ESX 3i hypervisor in servers featuring new quad-core chips from Intel, within the next six months, for example.

Market research firm Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Application Server - Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2007 to 2013' to their offering, according to Businesswire.

Application servers provide real-time business benefits, and business managers increase productivity to achieve competitive advantage using application servers.

According to the paper, application server markets at $2 billion in 2006 are expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2012.

London-based International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) had illegal file-sharing network eDonkey shut down seven of their servers in Germany, According to CMJ.

IFPI, a blanket organisation representing about 1 400 record companies across 75 countries, used its German unit to present the injunctions against the network in Hamburg, Cologne, D"usseldorf, Leipzig and Frankfurt's courts.

This move marks the third time this year that the organisation has taken action against eDonkey. The first came against the company's linked servers in France, followed by the Netherlands. "The bulk of eDonkey servers were in these countries," said IFPI spokesman Alex Jacob.