HP servers boom in India

According to an IDC report for the first quarter of 2009, HP has a market share of 43% in the high-end server market in India, states Siliconindia.

Heading the business critical servers division in the Indian market, Santanu Ghose is responsible for HP's thrive in the server business in India.

Ghose anticipates a tremendous growth opportunity in the region: "There are many segments in India where our business can grow including telecom, banking financial services and insurance and even healthcare, retail and IT/ITES can be the key drivers of growth," says Ghose.

Altor Networks, provider of virtualisation and cloud security solutions, has integrated Altor VF 3.0 with Juniper Networks Series Security Threat Response Managers to extend its solution for correlation and threat management into virtualised server environments, says Business Wire.

"Physical firewall vendors need to offer solutions for protecting virtualised environments. Partnering with a virtualisation security solution provider whose products are purpose-built to address the unique security challenges of the virtual environment is one approach," said Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner Fellow.

"A centralised view of security information like logs, events, and network traffic flows is an important first step in unified physical and virtual management."

Companies can enjoy greater control over their IT costs by using virtual private servers, it has been suggested, reports Global Gold Internet Services.

According to Computerworld, the evidence of this is particularly clear in the case of US labour organisation firm HotSchedules.com, which managed to reduce 42 physical servers to just four.

This is despite the firm boosting its revenues by over 100% in recent years, as well as taking on major clients that demand major data storage requirements.