The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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Beverley Head
Friday, 04 December 2009 08:34
Zane Adam. general manager of Microsoft’s Virtualisation and System Centre in Redmond, who is currently in Sydney told iTWire that while it might currently take one IT administrator to manage 50 servers, Microsoft’s ambition was to drive that to one IT admin per “multi hundreds of servers and drive human costs out of admin within a couple of years.”
In March next year the company will release its Dynamic Data Centre Toolkit for enterprises which will feature more automation tools and allow rapid provisioning, according to Adam. “For all the customers that have virtualised – the way to now continue to reduce cost is drive more automisation (sic) and policy – taking out the human cost of IT management and pushing work to the software.
“So, if traffic goes above a certain threshold it will provision new servers without really requiring IT admin to do things, and alert IT admin to upcoming failures rather than after the fact.”
Adam said Microsoft wanted to develop tools that would allow companies of all sizes to manage the fabric of their information systems – handling software and services, but also the network and storage requirements.
“The next generation of systems management products will be more about fabric management and managing the environment rather than the server. Currently when you want to deploy a server you say ‘I want to deploy a Windows server on box A, SQL Server on box A’ – instead you will say ‘I want to deploy a database with this kind of requirement for high availability and high scale’ and the system will define clustered SQl, clustered Windows and network settings whereas today in admin you have to define every parameter for deployment.
“We want to take the ratio of administrators to servers and decrease it tenfold.”
What it wants to increase however is the penetration of virtualisation in both the enterprise and SME space and grow Microsoft’s market share.
Adam claimed that between a fifth and a quarter of the installed server base was virtualised, rising slightly to around 30 per cent of new servers. Over the next four years however he believes that there will be more virtualised servers than standalone boxes, although the uptake in the SME space will be slower as the refresh cycle is less aggressive.
VMware continues to dominate with over half of the market share, although Microsoft claims it now controls almost a quarter of the market. Adam however claimed Microsoft’s share was rising and predicted that eventually it would outsell VMware which would in turn outsell Citrix
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