Virtualisation projects fail ROI

Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any return on investment, says Computerworld.

That's according to IT services company Computacenter, which surveyed IT senior staff about their experience with virtualisation and found only 4% of companies which had installed desktop virtualisation (VDI) projects had experienced the expected ROI. The situation wasn't much better for companies that had installed server virtualisation, with just 6% achieving the expected results.

The survey, which included 130 IT decision-makers, also highlighted other misconceptions, with 83% claiming VDI would make it easier to manage and support desktop applications, which Computacenter pointed out was not necessarily the case.

Microsoft and HP have partnered to help businesses in Qatar and the Middle East advance cloud computing services to simplify technology environments for this sector, writes The Peninsula.

This initiative was realised after both companies announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million on the project. The companies plan to deliver new solutions which will be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model, advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation, eliminate the complexities of IT management, and automate existing manual processes to lower overall costs.

This agreement represents the industry's most comprehensive technology stack integration to date - from infrastructure to application - and is intended to substantially improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing IT environments.

Kulacom Jordan has unveiled its 300-square-metre data centre equipped with the latest server and virtualisation technology from Dell International, reports Global Arab Network.

Kulacom Jordan's fully managed data centre has been designed to host the most basic to the most mission-critical computer systems, enabling it to host customer solutions consisting of one processor and 1GB of storage or a solution that requires hundreds of servers with terabytes of storage per server.

According to Hazim Alaeddin, Kulacom Jordan's CEO, the benefits of companies outsourcing their IT operations to a data centre are numerous, with the main focus being on the reduced capital costs that companies will witness, in addition to reducing staff overheads and operational expenses.