UK leads in virtualisation adoption

The UK is leading the way when it comes to adoption of virtualisation in Europe, according to executives from VMware, says IT Pro.

During an interview with IT Pro at VMworld 2010, Fredrik Sjostedt, director of product and solutions marketing for the firm, sang the praises of the nation for its rapid acceptance of the technology and claimed it was ahead of the likes of Germany and France.

“[In] Europe, you see very different maturity levels [but] the most mature countries or sub-regions from a European perspective is very much the UK... and the Nordics,” he said.

Boeing company Jeppesen has migrated its business-critical logistics systems to open-source Red Hat virtualisation technology to benefit from cost savings, reports Computerworld UK.

Jeppesen develops crew and fleet optimisation systems for the global transportation industry, and has UK sites in Newbury, Crawley and Maidenhead. It will now standardise its business-critical software build systems on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation platform.

As a result, Jeppesen aims to achieve both reduced hardware and product time to market costs over the first three years of deployment.

Global IT security and data protection firm, Sophos revealed that it has formed a global alliance with Virtual Computer, a leader in the distributed desktop virtualisation management market, writes Kansascity.com

Virtual Computer's NxTop customers now have the option of selecting Sophos Anti-Virus profiles to help proactively safeguard their virtual environment from suspicious activity, viruses, and other malware threats.

NxTop, Virtual Computer's flagship solution, enables desktop IT administrators the ability to create flexible, dependable, and secure endpoints for various combinations of laptops, desktops, VDI, or cloud computing.