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Workload placement in a hybrid world

Empty racks awaiting customer kit at HP's Aurora data centre
The Register live It's where you put it that counts
If you ask your Oracle team which infrastructure they want their databases and apps running across, they’ll tell you dedicated. Heaven forbid their IO is interfered with by a lagging virtual infrastructure. Your Windows camp will probably allow most of their apps on virtual and private clouds. But throw the networking guys these …
01 May 07:43

Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement

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Deep dive
You often ask us to show you how to use the abilities that our experts describe. On the 17th May, join us for an hour that will change broadcasting for ever: for 60 minutes we will show you how to take advantage of the improvements and new features of virtual machine migration with Hyper-V 3.0 and Windows Server 2012. Our award- …
24 Apr 08:48

Looking for a new role? Check out these IT jobs

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Promo Recruitment call
Twice a month The Register will showcase some tech vacancies gleaned from the jobs board of reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner. In our first outing we kick off with four permie open positions, two based in London, one in Newcastle and the fourth, with The Army, which could mean anywhere. ASOS, the online fashion retailer, …
23 Apr 11:25

The politics of the data centre

The right infrastructure for the right reasons?
If you ask your Oracle team which infrastructure they want their databases and apps running across, they’ll tell you dedicated. Heaven forbid their IO is interfered with by a lagging virtual infrastructure. Your Windows camp will probably allow most of their apps on virtual and private clouds. But throw the networking guys these …
18 Apr 07:30

Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and El Reg

E-reading on the Nexus 7
Competition And find your next job too...
reed.co.uk and The Register have teamed up to offer Reg readers in the UK the chance to win a shiny new Nexus 7 tablet. To enter, all you need to do is sign up for reed.co.uk’s jobs by email service using the short form below. reed.co.uk will then send you only the jobs you're interested in as and when new opportunities that …
17 Apr 11:26

Workloads? It's not just what you do, it's where you do it...

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Regcast Mixing it up in a hybrid world
Reg research shows that you are going to be mixing your platforms and deployment models in the future. So, the next question is, which apps and workloads run on which platforms? You have never had more choice. Our next Regcast examines how you make those decisions. You're constrained by resources, technology and politics, but …
12 Apr 14:52

How to introduce modern architectures and best practice to the data centre

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Easing the pain
We asked three experts, an analyst, a sysadmin, and a vendor consultant, to give us their views on how best to introduce major changes to data centre operations. Their contributions are below. Tony Lock, programme director, Freeform Dynamics It is a standing joke in IT that the answer to the question of how to arrive at the …
12 Apr 09:30

Technical architects ahoy!

Promo Big discounts for London event
We’ve teamed up with IASA, the Global IT Architect Association,to promote its April event and have bagged a sizeable discount for any current or aspiring technical architects who’d like to attend. The event is in London this month, on April 25 and 26, at the Cavendish ConAndrew Searle, High Performance Computing, Jaguar Land …
12 Apr 07:16

The Register guide to Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V

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Virtualisation explication
In February we published the The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012 as a free ebook. (You can get it here via our ebooks page.) To date there has been about 8,000 downloads. To give you a flavour of the book, co-written by Trevor Pott and Liam Proven, we are publishing our third and final extract, about Hyper-V - but to read …
10 Apr 13:26

The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: Holistic storage

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A short extract from our ebook
In February we published the The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012 as a free ebook. (You can get it here via our ebooks page.) To date there has been about 7,000 downloads, To give you a flavour of the book, co-written by Trevor Pott and Liam Proven, we are republishing our second of two extracts. This short extract acts as …
20 Mar 10:14

El Reg bundles your gaming past into brace of ebooks

Got coins burning a hole in your pocket? Spend them here....
Games, we love 'em. We've played a fair few of them over the years too. And while we've seen graphics evolve from barely distinguishable bunches of pixels to elegantly sculpted and rendered 3D models, and virtual arenas expand from the limits of a screen's resolution to take in entire cityscapes, one thing is constant among all …
19 Mar 12:46

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device - or Bring Your Own Disaster?

Live Chat Quiz Intel and Reg staff on the merits of either side
In most discussions of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and consumerisation the experts' mistrust of users is evident. Typically, IT departments are not keen on people bringing their own devices into work with the expectation that apps, services and support will just magically work. But some organisations have decided to trust the …
12 Mar 10:59

Cloud storage matters. Really matters...

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On demand Your hidden weak link?
We've come to the end of our HP webcast series on building the right private cloud, so we've looped right back to look at why storage should be the beginning of your private cloud story. Previously we explored the vital role that your infrastructure, servers and network play in planning a successful private cloud deployment. In …
11 Mar 12:14

Concerned about sophisticated storage solutions?

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Live today Cloud storage woes and wins
The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very different to what you have today. So what level of performance, and what attributes does it need to have? And how do you migrate from what you have now into what you have next? What will you need to spend, and what are the common mistakes …
26 Feb 08:38

The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: A short extract

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Another chapter in Microsoft licensing
Two weeks ago, we published the The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012 as a free ebook. (You can get it here via our ebooks page.) To date there has been about 6,000 downloads, which is cool. To give you a flavour of the book, co-written by Trevor Pott and Liam Proven, we are republishing two extracts - but to read it all you …
25 Feb 15:58

Delving deep into Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'

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Live broadcast Does Windows Server 2012 deliver on its promise?
Microsoft claims that Windows Server 2012 is the "Cloud OS", but is that a serious statement or just marketing hype? We know that thousands of you who are Windows Server users are planning to migrate to private cloud in 2013, so the answer matters as much to you as it does to us. Join The Reg's Tim Phillips for a live discussion …
22 Feb 08:22

Inside Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'

Microsoft's cloud OS does it all and anywhere you want to do it
Live video Does Windows Server 2012 deliver on its promise?
Microsoft claims that Windows Server 2012 is the "Cloud OS", but is that a serious statement or just marketing hype? We know that thousands of you who are Windows Server users are planning to migrate to private cloud in 2013, so the answer matters as much to you as it does to us. Join The Reg's Tim Phillips for a live discussion …
18 Feb 10:31

Why virtual network application

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Live today Needs the whole stack to participate
According to readers of The Register, Private Cloud is low-moving towards being a central plank of IT with more than 30% of them estimating their IT will be based on such a dynamic infrastructure within the next three years. This isn’t a project that can be done at server level in isolation of course. Rather, it’s a project that …
15 Feb 10:23

The data centre of the future, according to Reg readers

Service driven, virtualised to the hilt and massively fault tolerant
The wish list for the data centre of the future, according to Register Readers, is heavily focussed on service delivery, with tightly organised pools of resources and massive amounts of virtualisation – and of course, fault-tolerance to the Nth degree. Cloud will play a part in this, naturally. But not in the way some vendors …
11 Feb 12:04

The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012

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Reg stalwarts Trevor Pott and Liam Proven had teamed up to write The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012 - it is fab and it is free,* and it is well worth a read. The authors deliver a great overview of WS2012 and its place in today's IT environment. Windows Server 2012 is the server version's first big update for four-and-a- …
11 Feb 11:30

The Register: Our all-new app now available for Android

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And the rest...
You can now nip down to the Google Play store and bag yourself our new Android App. This version adds offline reading capabilities and comments! Oh. Nice This is a new release, not an update. So those of that you that have the older version, we're sorry: it won’t automatically upgrade. We're also sorry it took longer than …
07 Feb 09:28

Private clouds creep into the enterprise

But don’t forget the networks
According to readers of The Register, Private Cloud is creeping towards being a central plank of IT with more than 30% of them estimating their IT will be based on such a dynamic infrastructure within the next three years. This isn’t a project that can be done at server level in isolation of course. Rather, it’s a project that …
04 Feb 14:42

The problem with deploying storage for a private cloud is...

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block challenges and find solutions
The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very different to what you have today. So what level of performance, and what attributes does it need to have? And how do you migrate from what you have now into what you have next? What will you need to spend, and what are the common mistakes …
01 Feb 11:06

Navigating towards software defined networking

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Capability management for clouds
If you're implementing a private or a hybrid cloud, then your network fabric needs a refit. You've virtualised your servers - but even in a mostly static environment, traffic patterns have changed. Add the flexibility of a dynamic IT infrastructure, and you need a network that can reconfigure instantly as loads move. In this …
29 Jan 10:02

Hotel chain De Vere checks out of server rooms and into the cloud

The Register breaking news
Live today Tips on how consolidation can save more than just cost
De Vere hotels had legacy systems, systems that needed updating but, most of all, it had lots of servers doing different things. Having grown by acquisition, it needed to consolidate if it wanted to realise its plans for customer service. It did this using a private cloud created by ANS Group, based on NetApp's FlexPod. At 11:00 …
25 Jan 08:27

The perfect Data Centre vision

Live today How can you manage to see it fulfilled?
On paper the benefits of data centre automation are easy to see. But we don't build data centres on paper. Our Regcast today at 11:00 GMT will examine how to build a data centre and maintain it throughout its life in the private cloud environment. What, if anything, has the cloud changed? What are the costs of running a sub- …
23 Jan 08:16

The dream of the automated data centre

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Regcast Can you build it, do you want it?
On paper the benefits of data centre automation are easy to see. But we don't build data centres on paper. That is why our Regcast on 23 January at 11:00 GMT examines how to build a data centre and maintain it throughout its life in the private cloud environment. What, if anything, has the cloud changed? What are the costs of …
09 Jan 10:04

Hotel chain De Vere checks out of server rooms and into the cloud

The Register breaking news
Live vid Tips on how consolidation can save more than just cost
De Vere hotels had legacy systems, systems that needed updating but, most of all, it had lots of servers doing different things. Having grown by acquisition, it needed to consolidate if it wanted to realise its plans for customer service. It did this using a private cloud created by ANS Group, based on NetApp's FlexPod. On …
07 Jan 11:57

Do users have enough power?

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Or are they gaining too much!
Pundits say we are entering a new era of freedom and empowerment. Users should be allowed to do whatever they want to improve productivity and make their lives easier. Whether it’s hooking up personal devices to the corporate network, storing confidential documents in DropBox, or discussing business matters over social networks …
21 Dec 08:18

What Reg readers are planning for their datacentre

Expanding the beach head
When 481 Reg Readers were asked to rate their IT delivery capability in terms of responsiveness, service level management, cost control and business alignment, only a quarter claimed a good level of performance across all areas. Furthermore, a wholesale move to the public cloud was not felt to be the answer. This puts the …
17 Dec 11:03

A data centre that takes care of itself? It's...the dream

Can you build it, do you want it?
On paper the benefits of data centre automation are easy to see. But we don't build data centres on paper. That is why our Regcast on 23 January at 11:00 GMT examines how to build a data centre and maintain it throughout its life in the private cloud environment. What, if anything, has the cloud changed? What are the costs of …
11 Dec 12:56

Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Why Bother?

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Live today Two Reg readers provide many reasons
Join us today at 11:00 GMT, when we’ll be broadcasting live from our London studio with Reg readers Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept IT. Between them, they’re going to run through a raft of real-world projects and deployment scenarios where they’ve been using and abusing Windows Server 2012 to …
07 Dec 08:22

Consolidation in the cloud

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Not just saving cost. What else?
De Vere hotels had legacy systems, systems that needed updating but, most of all, it had lots of servers doing different things. Having grown by acquisition, it needed to consolidate if it wanted to realise its plans for customer service. It did this using a private cloud created by ANS Group, based on NetApp's FlexPod. On …
06 Dec 14:23

Why you need an interactive archive

The Register breaking news
Live today Real-world benefits from Taylor Wessing
When the bell tolls, you really want to be sure that you can find the relevant documents and emails you need to support your case. For most of us, that bell rarely tolls and we live in hope that the ad-hoc measures we’ve cobbled together will see us through when it does. For others that bell doesn’t just toll, it’s like Tinnitus …
06 Dec 09:21

Removing the irrational from application rationalisation

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When porting to the cloud, only take those applications that make sense
Are you hoping to forklift some of your applications over to the cloud, to take advantage of cost savings? By all means evaluate it, but understand all of the implications for the applications and the business processes that they support. Rationalisation is one of the most important steps in that understanding. Before deciding …
04 Dec 22:30

How to find what you need when you need it

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Archiving advice from Reg readers
When the bell tolls, you really want to be sure that you can find the relevant documents and emails you need to support your case. For most of us, that bell rarely tolls and we live in hope that the ad-hoc measures we’ve cobbled together will see us through when it does. For others that bell doesn’t just toll, it’s like Tinnitus …
04 Dec 09:04

Council techie and top reseller talk Windows Server 2012

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Join us for a range of tips and advice
Join us on December 7 at 11:00 GMT, when we’ll be broadcasting live from our London studio with Reg readers Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept IT. Between them, they’re going to run through a raft of real-world projects and deployment scenarios where they’ve been using and abusing Windows Server …
03 Dec 11:19

Four key mistakes to avoid when building your hybrid cloud

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Live today How not to lose control of your IT ?
Whether it’s public, private, or hybrid, there is an emerging consensus that various forms of cloud computing will have a role to play in the future of IT delivery. But what if you have a data centre already, doing tasks that won't go away overnight? How do you build an operational environment without creating a completely …
30 Nov 08:44

Software-defined data centre. Any takers?

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28 Nov 16:20

Who cares about your archives anymore?

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Practical advice from Reg readers
There aren’t many business that don’t need archives of their files and emails that their employees can reach with ease. But certainly, it can be of more strategic importance for some than others. Reg reader, Stuart Walters, falls into the latter camp. He’s the IT Director of international law firm Taylor Wessing - a place where …
28 Nov 15:30

Upping your game with Windows Server 2012

Two Reg readers provide many reasons
Join us on December 7 at 11:00 GMT, when we’ll be broadcasting live from our London studio with Reg readers Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept IT. Between them, they’re going to run through a raft of real-world projects and deployment scenarios where they’ve been using and abusing Windows Server …
27 Nov 08:08

Why you need an interactive file archive

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Real world advice from Reg readers
Are your file or email archives a black hole? Do you even archive? If not, you might have a black hole in a black hole. Do you have funding for your archiving project? If not, you have a black hole in a black hole in a… you get the idea. Email is embedded in your business processes. It contains vital business intelligence, but …
23 Nov 13:18

Dodging costly common cloud pitfalls: YOU ask the questions

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Webcast We'll provide the answers
Whether it’s public, private, or hybrid, there is an emerging consensus that various forms of cloud computing will have a role to play in the future of IT delivery. But what if you have a data centre already, doing tasks that won't go away overnight? How do you build an operational environment without creating a completely …
19 Nov 06:28

Forget what vendors think: What’s YOUR vision for the data centre?

Research Are you really going to cloudify everything?
Given the chance, any IT vendor or service provider will launch into their company’s vision for the future... your future. If it’s Salesforce.com or Google, that will be a future in which you wave goodbye to all of your servers, storage and networking kit. If it’s IBM, HP or Microsoft, their crystal ball will envision you …
09 Nov 21:39

Future-proofing the data centre

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Lessons from the front line
Whether it’s public, private, or hybrid, there is an emerging consensus that various forms of cloud computing will have a role to play in the future of IT delivery. But you have a data centre already, doing tasks that won't go away overnight. How do you build an operational environment without creating a completely disjointed …
31 Oct 12:19

BYOD: Ready or not, here it comes

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Video You can’t hide
Whisper it. The techies have lost control. Partially at least. The rise of the smartphone, slate/tablet/whatever you want to call it, means that more and more unqualified devices are creeping onto the corporate network. In our recent broadcast, Many Devices, One Policy, Tim Phillips, Andy Buss and Sasi Myrthy explored how this …
19 Oct 11:40

Big data? Big challenge

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Eating the data management elephant, one bite at a time
Do you find dealing with data like drinking from a fire hydrant? Even as existing data silos continue to grow, an increasing range of external information sources offer new opportunities to understand customers better, to make better decisions or improve service delivery. No organisation is working in a vacuum, however. Time and …
17 Oct 14:28

The Register iPhone and Android apps: Maintenance update

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Spring Clean
We are prepping new Register apps for iPhone and Android. Unfortunately, this has taken us a little longer than anticipated, and the current apps are no longer working. The new versions will include comment functionality, among many improvements. And we aim to go live this week. In the meantime, we apologise for any …
01 Oct 11:26

BYOD? Is it too late for IT to shut the back door...

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On demand Multiple devices, one security policy
For over 30 years the IT department issued kit and managed it. But recently the techies have lost control to gadget hungry managers and workers who insist on bringing their own kit into the office. Our latest Regcast, Many Devices, One Policy, explored how this trend is causing the IT department to pull out its collective hair, …
28 Sep 11:32

Can you be a strong development manager and stay agile?

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On demand Work it out with our online video
By the end of last week’s Regcast Agility without Anxiety, El Reg's Tim Phillips decided he could do with being a bit more agile himself. Judging by the wave of questions we had on the live broadcast agility is definitely something you are concerned with too. Mark Warren from Perforce shared the Perforce Version Management …
27 Sep 11:45

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