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  Telstra aims Cloud portal at SMB market

  Telecommunications company, Telstra (ASX: TLS), has unveiled the next stage in its $800 million Cloud computing strategy, a services portal aimed at the small and medium business (SMB) market.

  By Hamish Barwick | 08 November, 2011 10:04

  Tags: SMB, Telstra Cloud, virtual servers

• Step 2: Virtual Server Consolidation

  OK, you've virtualized as much as you can. Now what? Consolidating physical servers through virtualization doesn't address underlying complexities because it doesn't reduce the total number of servers you're managing. Here are three tips for taking it to the next level.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 30 December, 2009 05:16

  Tags: Server consolidation, virtualisation, virtual machines, virtual servers

Whitepapers about virtual servers

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  Can you harness clouds without creating storms?

  Cloud computing is a disruptive transformation for IT. Public cloud offerings allow the business to directly access external services, creating security holes and quality blind spots while potentially eroding enterprise IT’s perceived value. To become internally agile and efficient, IT must go beyond just virtualizing servers to provide elastic, on-demand private cloud services. At the same time, IT needs to transform itself into the master of a dynamic service supply chain, driving smart sourcing decisions and orchestrating how internal, external, virtual, and traditional resources work together to optimize business value.

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  IDC whitepaper: Hold Down Data Centre Costs