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Selling to SMBs makes virtualization, cloud cheaper, simpler, more available

Posted May 25, 2011 - 12:11 pm

SMBs are driving a lot of the cloud market, which drives IT vendors to cater to them. SMBs aren't just motivated by cost, though; they use cloud to get more mobile, grow faster, increase sales.
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Cloud passes test with CIOs, who put money where their clouds should be

Posted May 25, 2011 - 11:15 am

A lot of technologies attract interest or pilot projects from big companies. The only techs that stick around are those that make companies willing to hire for the skills to make them work.
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VMware CIO: IT that's easy is more important than bells and whistles

Posted May 18, 2011 - 1:18 pm

VMware CIO Mark Egan runs a sophisticated IT shop, but even end users at a leading tech company want to focus on their jobs, not learning a new system with a steep learning curve.
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Hyper-V shines spotlight on CentOS, ready soon for 6.0 release

Posted May 18, 2011 - 8:00 am

As Red Hat and other vendors play defense in virtualization, Microsoft's announced support of CentOS on Hyper-V begs the question: when is CentOS 6 coming? Really soon, according to its lead developer.
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Microsoft confusion implies (wrongly) that Sandy Bridge won't support Hyper-V

Posted April 28, 2011 - 3:17 pm

Lacking someone else to do the dirty deed, Microsoft raises false doubts about whether its Hyper-V will run on Intel's Sandy Bridge. (It will; just install the service pack.)
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Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

Posted April 15, 2011 - 11:58 am

Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.
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Cisco finds way to improve switch revenue: kill the Flip videocam

Posted April 12, 2011 - 1:32 pm

Cisco has five major product lines and 30 peripheral businesses. A drop in switching forced it to refocus on its most lucrative businesses.
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VMware's incestuous acquisition of Mozy from EMC doesn't overcome 'Huh?' factor

Posted April 6, 2011 - 3:53 pm

VMware wants Mozy's data-center skills, which is what VMware is supposed to do best. So where's the benefit?
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Microsoft: Next level of virtualization unlocks server OS, applications

Posted March 23, 2011 - 2:32 pm

Microsoft virtualizes apps running on Windows Server ahead of rival VMware.
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Intel pushes micro servers without the room to grow

Posted March 21, 2011 - 3:11 pm

Micro servers offer efficiency only by being small and weak. Buy real servers, virtualize and, if you still want to downsize, switch to diet pizza.
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Cloud computing inches toward open source

Posted March 17, 2011 - 1:27 pm

With backing and additional services from Rackspace and Cloud.com, OpenStack may be a reasonable open-source alternative someday; just not yet.
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For new Dells, 'virtualization' is as much a weakness as strength

Posted March 14, 2011 - 4:55 pm

Dell's new virtualization integration stack amounts to software with the drivers to get it to work with the virtualization software that ships with the servers.
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In attack on Amazon, Microsoft displays worryingly poor FUD

Posted March 11, 2011 - 12:03 pm

Microsoft execs slam Amazon's approach to cloud as insufficiently innovative or cost effective, even as Microsoft's Azure strives to imitate it.
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High end enterprise IT management comes down market

Posted March 9, 2011 - 3:25 pm

Virtela and other high-end enterprise monitor and management companies are offering help to SMBs as IT infrastructrure gets more complex.
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VMware adds more controls for cloud computing

Posted March 8, 2011 - 12:34 pm

vCenter Operations is a new toolset that adds real-time analytics and configuration tools to give IT ways to see and manage cloud performance.
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Ex-Microsoft exec becomes CEO at Parallels

Posted February 23, 2011 - 1:34 pm

Six months after leaving Microsoft to join desktop virtualization vendor Parallels, executive Birger Steen has been promoted to CEO.
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Big-company survey predicts cloud will cause IT hiring dip

Posted February 21, 2011 - 6:21 pm

Cloud computing could slow IT hiring in 2011, according to Hackett Group, contradicting studies by analysts involved in the hiring process.
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Guide to the virtual desktop

Posted February 21, 2011 - 3:42 pm

With no process to choose among too many options, laying out a complex architecture for virtual desktops is ridiculously complex.
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The expanding ways to handle employee-owned mobile devices

Posted February 21, 2011 - 12:46 pm

Employee-owned mobile devices are becoming a fact of life in most workplaces, but the pose some questions for employees and some big challenges for IT. Luckily, the number of options for handling the situation is growing and those options are diversifying to offer a range of solutions.
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Virtualization can be key to cloud security, RSA chief says

Posted February 15, 2011 - 3:38 pm

In a keynote address at the RSA Security Conference here, RSA chief Art Coviello struck an optimistic tone about the future of security in cloud computing environments.
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Broad VMware vision still too narrowly focused

Posted February 9, 2011 - 8:10 pm

VMware has great credibility, broad, capable technology and a desire to replace Windows with an all-VMware vision of virtualization, clouds and virtual clouds.
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New Zimbra suite could shift competitive balance in virtualization, cloud

Posted February 7, 2011 - 4:14 pm

VMware wants to refocus the virtualization market away from the strengths of Citrix and Microsoft with suite collaboration aimed at end users.
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Desktop virtualization leads to confusion over software licensing

Posted February 7, 2011 - 3:55 pm

When Dataprise Inc., an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization's dirty little secret: No one -- including vendors -- seems to know how to license the software.
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What you need to know about cloud computing

Posted February 4, 2011 - 4:40 pm

'Cloud' can be a huge benefit under the right circumstances; the trick is to focus on what you need and put the details together afterward.
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VMware taps ex-Microsoft execs to battle Microsoft

Posted February 2, 2011 - 2:48 pm

VMware's Paul Maritz has given up his title of president to four senior executives who will serve as co-presidents of the EMC-owned company. With Maritz - himself a former Windows executive - continuing to hold the CEO title, three of the top five executives at VMware are now ex-Microsoft officials.
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