Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's BPOS desktop virtualisation suite knocked offline after severe storms in Ireland.
Synergy will implement a new HP DL380 G7 server at the company.
The company's data centre comprises roughly 900 000 servers, but accounts for 1% of total data centre consumption, a report says.
Tableau expects the tool to allow people to analyse, publish and share data on the go.
With virtual servers, if a disaster takes place, a company's critical systems can be retrieved in tact, says an expert.
'The Forrester Wave: Network Access Control (NAC), Q2 2011' commends Enterasys for its NAC strategy.
Virtualisation brings savings, but it can also increase costs in other areas, according to a CA commissioned survey.
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Most of enterprises polled for the inaugural quarterly V-index say they are using virtualisation to some degree.
The cloud is where customers are choosing to work, says Patrick Hastings, divisional MD, ATS at Bytes Systems Integration.
The cloud start-up hopes to eliminate the customisation required to build most private clouds.
In the future, high-density areas within a current data centre set-up, or in a completely new environment, will need to be built, says Lex Pienaar, CEO of Merit TS.