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10 keys for building private clouds

Posted May 29, 2012 - 8:49 pm

One of the toughest parts about implementing a cloud strategy isn't choosing the underlying technology to power the deployment; it's having the processes in place to manage an effective migration to the cloud, says Thomas Bittman, a cloud analyst for Gartner.
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VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

Posted May 23, 2012 - 7:06 am

VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.
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Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software

Posted May 21, 2012 - 12:27 pm

Silver Peak today upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors.
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Can Nvidia's Kepler processor revolutionize virtual desktop hosting?

Posted May 20, 2012 - 7:52 am

Nvidia recently demoed its long-awaited Kepler graphics processor with no less than a simulation of two galaxies colliding. On a practical level, though, the technology could answer many questions about virtual desktop hosting and, in the process, fill glaring holes in BYOD policies.
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From laptop to legion - turning one computer into many

Posted May 17, 2012 - 3:25 pm

A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.
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VMware envisions virtualization in post-PC, BYOD era

Posted May 17, 2012 - 2:16 pm

VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.
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Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop

Posted May 17, 2012 - 8:21 am

Cisco announced yesterday three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility.
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VMware: Virtualize the rest of the data center

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:37 pm

The server has been virtualized, now it's time for the rest of the data center - including the network - to catch up. That's the message form VMware at this year's Interop, as the company seeks to ensure it remains a major enterprise IT player while the software-defined networking trend continues to gain momentum.
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MIT business school grapples with virtualization

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:36 pm

MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge.
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Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:05 pm

Oracle's virtual desktop infrastructure is no longer reliant solely on the company's own storage infrastructure, giving customers a range of new options that won't tie customers into one vendor.
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Citrix boosts VDI offering with products, acquisition and details at cloud-based future

Posted May 10, 2012 - 10:35 am

Citrix Systems is upgrading XenDesktop, acquiring Virtual Computer, introducing a new type of hardware-assisted thin client and initiating a cloud project in an effort to make its virtual desktop infrastructure offering more attractive.
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Virtualization requires new security models

Posted May 9, 2012 - 9:03 pm

Traditional security models are slowing down virtualised environments and creating an untenable management burden as aggressive cloud-computing adopters skimp on security to ensure they don't become victims of their own virtualization success, a security executive has warned.
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Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support

Posted May 9, 2012 - 8:59 pm

When Tata Communications, the Indian telecommunications company, rolls out its infrastructure as a service cloud offering in America in the coming months, company officials want to claim differentiating features in the products. And one they're hoping to include is support for multiple hypervisors.
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Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

Posted May 8, 2012 - 3:18 pm

Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.
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HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps

Posted May 8, 2012 - 11:38 am

HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5.
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Red Hat releases OpenShift source code

Posted May 2, 2012 - 10:49 am

Open source software distributor Red Hat has released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to run the platform on multiple cloud fabrics, including OpenStack.
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VMware to offer enterprise application portal

Posted May 2, 2012 - 8:06 am

VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.
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New bare metal cloud offerings emerging

Posted May 1, 2012 - 2:48 pm

Sometimes, for either performance or security reasons, customers don't want to use a public or a private cloud with virtualized infrastructure. Service providers are increasingly responding to this, and one analyst says there is increasing demand for bare metal clouds.
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Cisco creates 115 new IT jobs

Posted May 1, 2012 - 2:14 pm

Cisco has announced plans to create 115 new jobs in its research and development (R&D) facility in Galway, Ireland.
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VMware downplays leaks of source code

Posted April 25, 2012 - 8:52 pm

Virtualization software vendor VMware today downplayed the seriousness of a source code leak involving the companys ESX hypervisor technology.
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Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in Big Data analytics

Posted April 25, 2012 - 9:26 am

Startups and small companies are stealing a march on some of their larger enterprise counterparts in their use of Big Data by employing analytics at the heart of their businesses, according to Amazon Web Services.
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Users find Microsoft System Center 2012 simplifies virtual systems management duties

Posted April 24, 2012 - 1:55 pm

Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System Center 2012 to manage and monitor applications and the infrastructure that supports them.
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Microsoft System Center 2012 overhauls licensing, focuses on apps

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:40 am

Microsoft has formally shipped System Center 2012 management platform, adding features that create application-centric views of corporate infrastructure and - just as important - implementing a new licensing scheme designed to capitalize on customers' frustration with the leading competitor, VMware.
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EMC sees ninth quarter of double-digit growth in Q1

Posted April 20, 2012 - 7:45 am

EMC today reported another quarter of double-digit revenue in Q1, with revenues hitting $5.1 billion. VMware was, once again, a leader in product sales with 25% year-over-year revenue growth.
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Vyatta speeds up its software-based routing with vPlane

Posted April 17, 2012 - 5:27 pm

Virtualized router pioneer Vyatta plans to increase the performance of its software by 10 times or more later this year, eyeing large data centers with virtualized multicore servers.
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