The Butler Group report, 'Server Operating Systems - Winners and Losers in the Open/Proprietary OS Market', considers 11 key server operating systems, judging each against technical and business criteria.
Network outsourcing is one of the highest growth areas in managed services, according to a new report from the Butler Group. Typical projects IT departments would like to undertake include hardware virtualisation or IP telephony, and many companies...
And Roy Illsley, senior research analyst at Butler Group, said: "I think it will become the default server operating system. Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008...
Other factors which have appeared over the last two years to endear Macs to the IT department include the arrival of Intel chips, Boot Camp or third-party virtualisation tools which allow Macs to run Windows and the availability of Office and open...
Virtualisation can reduce the energy consumption and cut operating costs for companies adopting the technology, according to Butler Group's Infrastructure Virtualisation report. The Butler Group also estimates a power saving of the order of £78,000...
Roy Illsley, senior research analyst at Butler Group, told silicon.com: "They've listened to people and put into 2008 the enhancements that the system administrators and people like that actually want to see in an operating system.