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• AWS’s bid to ‘strangle the monoliths’ with serverless

  CSIRO’s head of transformational bioinformatics Denis Bauer took to the stage at an Amazon Web Services event on Wednesday to proclaim: “Once you go serverless you never go back”.

• University of Auckland moves 550 virtual machines to distributed cluster

  The University of Auckland has moved 550 virtual machines to a distributed cluster for disaster avoidance without impacting daily operations as part of project to centralise its IT infrastructure.

• True utility computing coming soon: Vic Winkler

  True utility computing – where virtual machines are moved between competing service providers without an organisation's knowledge – is coming soon, according to Vic Winkler, CTO at data security provider Covata.
  

• In Pictures: How to protect virtual machines (VMs)

  These four products represent different approaches to VM security

• Yahoo Japan embarks on data centre transformation program

  Yahoo Japan is set to roll out 50,000 virtual machines (VMs) next year as part of its data centre transformation program.

• University of Queensland to roll out shared server virtualisation

  The University of Queensland (UQ) will soon deploy centralised server virtualisation services for its faculties and institutes in a university-wide project aimed at cutting IT costs and streamlining application delivery to 40,000 students and 7000 staff.
  

• Western Health administers backup remedy

  Melbourne based health provider, Western Health, is set to deploy new backup software in order to improve the data protection and disaster recovery capabilities of its virtualized infrastructure.
  

• Open source Qubes OS alpha available

  The security researcher who invented malware known as Blue Pill has come up with a secure open source operating system called Qubes OS that is available for alpha-testing downloads.

• Oracle set to merge Java virtual machines

  Oracle's plan to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM is still evolving, but a single JVM based on both technologies is expected in 18 months to two years, an Oracle official said during a Webcast this week.

• LANdesk widens view of company assets

  Nearly half of businesses have had kit stolen by employees, according to survey by LANdesk. Forty-four percent of employees admit to having taken kit or intellectual property when leaving a company - with mobile phones topping the list of the most half-inched items.

• Step 2: Virtual Server Consolidation

  OK, you've virtualized as much as you can. Now what? Consolidating physical servers through virtualization doesn't address underlying complexities because it doesn't reduce the total number of servers you're managing. Here are three tips for taking it to the next level.