NHS deploys virtualisation

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is going to use virtualisation and cloud computing in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint and will also support further green initiatives, states Zycko.

Speaking to Silicon, NHS director of infrastructure Mark Ferrar says the number of physical servers can be reduced in order to make the organisation more environmentally-friendly, adding that there is no reason why this step should not be taken.

The government hopes to cut the UK's carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and the NHS has made the move in order to adhere to this target.

Userful, ThinNetworks, and Positivo have been selected to supply 324 000 virtualised desktops to schools in all of Brazil's 5 560 municipalities, says CIOL.

This initiative would provide computer access to millions of children throughout Brazil.

It is the world's largest ever virtual desktop deployment, the world's largest ever desktop Linux deployment, and a new record low cost for PCs with the PC sharing hardware and software costing less than $50 per seat.

RNA has unveiled its first two products: the Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) and RNAmessenger, reports ZDNet.

MVP, which is the overall controlling software, works by pooling, or aggregating, the available memory across multiple systems on a network.

All its systems then become a shared pool of a network's resources available to all servers in the data centre, RNA said in a statement.