Attention large Linux workloads
Live webcast You may be running on the wrong platform
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers power, security, administration licensing and management benefits – but, in an x86 world, many IT departments simply don’t consider running their Linux apps on anything but traditional servers.
IBM’s system z platform offers the …
BYOD beyond the noise
Webcast Don’t think about it, build it
A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much less about how to build a wireless infrastructure for it. Good job we're here to put that right.
Join Trevor Kelly and Andy Cooper from HP, and Dale Vile from Freeform Dynamics, as they set out the essentials of what will make BYOD work: the …
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reed.co.uk and The Register have teamed again up to offer Reg readers in the UK another opportunity to win a shiny Nexus 7 tablet.
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El Reg drills in Office 365: See the evidence
Vid Trevor goes visual
This week, Trevor Pott kicked off his exploration of Office 365 with this overview.
Trevor and his team-mate Josh Folland have also produced four hands-on videos for Office 365. We will broadcast these over the next week or so – all free, all on demand.
Here is the first, an Office 365 tutorial.
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Time to get your hands on Hyper-V 3.0: Let's do this
Live training! Join your fellow readers and our experts - 11AM UK
At last, our eagerly awaited live training session with the tech gurus from QA training is ready to roll.
Kick off is 11am BST, right here. Get comfy, fire up your machine, and prep your questions. Come 11am, hit the button on the player below.
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Final call – free Hyper V training
All from the comfort of your desk
When we do our broadcasts we’re often asked if we can show you how to use the abilities that our experts describe. So, tomorrow at 11:00 BST we’ve got 60 minutes of live training on how to take advantage of the improvements and new features of virtual machine migration with Hyper-V 3.0 and Windows Server 2012.
We’re teaming up …
Got that Monday morning feeling?
Promo Then check out these IT job vacancies
Twice a month The Register highlights some tech vacancies gleaned from the jobs board of reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner.
In today's outing we swoop on four permie open positions, in London, Manchester, Ipswich and Surrey.
Osborne, a large property company, is recruiting an Applications Support Analyst, to work in …
Deep, deep dive: Hyper-V
Hands-on Regcast Yes! It's live free training on Hyper-V 3.0
Next week, on the 17th May at 11am, 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-winning Regcasts crew is teaming up with training provider QA to do the deepest of deep dives for you. And you can join in, for free here …
Attention large Linux workloads
The Register Live You may be running on the wrong platform
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers power, security, administration licensing and management benefits – but, in an x86 world, many IT departments simply don’t consider running their Linux apps on anything but traditional servers.
IBM’s system z platform offers the …
Workload placement in a hybrid world
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 …
Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement
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- …
Looking for a new role? Check out these IT jobs
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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, …
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 …
Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and El Reg
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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.
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Workloads? It's not just what you do, it's where you do it...
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 …
How to introduce modern architectures and best practice to the data centre
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 …
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 …
The Register guide to Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V
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 …
The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: Holistic storage
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 …
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 …
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 …
Cloud storage matters. Really matters...
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 …
Concerned about sophisticated storage solutions?
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 …
The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012: A short extract
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 …
Delving deep into Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'
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 …
Inside Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'
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 …
Why virtual network application
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 …
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 …
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- …
The Register: Our all-new app now available for Android
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!
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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 …
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 …
The problem with deploying storage for a private cloud is...
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 …
Navigating towards software defined networking
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 …
Hotel chain De Vere checks out of server rooms and into the cloud
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 …
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- …
The dream of the automated data centre
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 …
Hotel chain De Vere checks out of server rooms and into the cloud
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 …
Do users have enough power?
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 …
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 …
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 …
Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Why Bother?
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 …
Consolidation in the cloud
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 …
Why you need an interactive archive
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 …
Removing the irrational from application rationalisation
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 …
How to find what you need when you need it
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 …
Council techie and top reseller talk Windows Server 2012
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 …
Four key mistakes to avoid when building your hybrid cloud
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 …
Software-defined data centre. Any takers?
Forums Pile in and flesh it out.
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Who cares about your archives anymore?
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 …
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 …
