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vSphere upgrade saga: vSphere ESXi and Host Profiles

Posted December 17, 2012 - 5:19 pm

Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went flawlessly.
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Making Virtualization Infrastructure Choices To Improve and Bolster Business and IT Agility

Posted December 14, 2012 - 5:45 pm

For both shorter-term market opportunities and longer-term market trends, more and more organizations are turning to virtualization as one of the enabling technologies for improved agility.
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Essential Strategies for Using Virtualization to Enhance and Improve Business Continuity

Posted December 14, 2012 - 5:45 pm

In this paper, we discuss how virtualization can enhance your disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives and which technology solutions will give you the best chance of success.
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Business and Financial Aspects of Server Virtualization

Posted December 14, 2012 - 5:45 pm

This paper showcases the business advantages of the AMD approach to virtualization at the processor level, focusing on the use cases of consolidation, agility and business continuity.
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New TPC benchmark compares virtual workloads

Posted December 13, 2012 - 9:17 pm

Extending its testing methodologies to the realm of virtualization, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has introduced a benchmark that allows organizations to determine the responsiveness of database systems operating in virtual environments.
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Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture (P4000)

Posted December 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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The Best Way to Build a Cloud / HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Utility Storage

Posted December 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Case Study: Global Company Transforms Culture with Cloud-Based Collaboration

Posted December 12, 2012 - 1:30 pm

D+M Group wanted to "make it easy to collaborate across divisional and geographical boundaries," says D+M VP John Jackson. Find out how they connected disparate teams, optimized global performance, and lowered TCO in their HQ by 72%.
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Nicira CTO shares sneak peek of company's SDN plans

Posted December 12, 2012 - 12:01 pm

Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware environments and beyond.
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vSphere upgrade saga: vCloud Director 5.1

Posted December 12, 2012 - 8:28 am

vCloud Director was one of the easiest upgrades but still required some VMware Knowledge Base articles to complete. As always before you do anything you need to "Read the Fine Manual". One misstep may mean starting all over again.
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One OS, three installation options: What's the best way to install Windows 8?

Posted December 11, 2012 - 5:00 pm

You can run Windows 8 in a virtual machine, dual-boot it with your current OS, or install it outright.
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Bromium protects hosted desktops and Windows XP with its Microvisor

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:55 pm

Bromium has upgraded its security platform vSentry, which uses virtualization to isolate malicious code, to protect virtual desktops and old Windows XP PCs.
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How IT can become a driver of business growth

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:36 pm

IT departments excel at boosting efficiency but fall short of driving business growth, according to a study from the Economist Intelligence Unit
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vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading to vCNS 5.1

Posted December 10, 2012 - 3:23 pm

vCNS 5.1 replaces vShield 5.1, and if you do not add new nodes during your installation, you can easily perform all upgrades without removing any components of vShield. vCNS upgrades will upgrade all components of vShield.
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vSphere upgrade saga: vCenter 5.1

Posted December 7, 2012 - 3:40 pm

Moving to vCenter 5.1 comes with quite a few caveats and requirements -- and if you make even one mistake you need to start over.
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Riverbed Granite takes iSCSI across the WAN

Posted December 7, 2012 - 2:40 pm

Granite Core and Edge appliances eliminate the gap between storage in the data center and servers in the branch
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Virtual Patching: Lower Security Risks and Costs

Posted December 6, 2012 - 3:30 pm

Hundreds of software vulnerabilities are exposed each month, and timely patching is expensive, prone to error and often impossible.
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Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform

Posted December 5, 2012 - 5:48 pm

Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized.
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HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support

Posted December 5, 2012 - 1:15 pm

HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy.
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Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:58 pm

SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns.
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vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading HPSIM

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:04 pm

Since an upgrade requires you to reboot each node of your vSphere cluster this is also the perfect time to update any firmware you may need for your systems as recommended by VMware and the hardware vendor.
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Red Hat RHEV gets storage savvy

Posted December 5, 2012 - 11:30 am

Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) package, Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities.
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5 excellent uses of Windows 8 Hyper-V

Posted December 5, 2012 - 10:41 am

Windows 8's bare-metal virtualization layer is a great way to create an app sandbox, run a test machine, launch a VHD appliance, and more
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Detecting the Enemy Inside the Network

Posted December 4, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) refer to a category of threats that pertain to computer intrusions by threat actors that aggressively pursue and compromise chosen targets. APTs are often conducted in campaigns...
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The Protection and Operational Benefits of Agentless Security in Virtual Environments

Posted December 4, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Two trends are dominating the security space right now: 1. increasing threat levels and 2. a need for greater efficiency. Security must improve and operate more efficiently in a virtualized infrastructure.
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