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American Tire Distributor Achieves Virtualization Goals

Posted September 16, 2013 - 9:30 am

American Tire Distributors (ATD) is the largest replacement tire distributor in the U.S. To support their 20% annual growth, ATD needed an infrastructure that was highly agile and scalable.
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Review: VMware Workstation 10 turns to tablets

Posted September 11, 2013 - 10:26 am

The best desktop virtualization software for techs adds support for Surface Pro sensors and more polish
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Information Governance comes of age

Posted September 11, 2013 - 10:15 am

How to take back control of your enterprise data
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VCs throwing gobs of money at cloud, security, mobile startups

Posted September 10, 2013 - 2:09 pm

Tech startups focused in hot areas such as virtualization, mobility and security have pulled in tens of millions of dollars over the past week or so from venture capitalists looking to back the next big thing.
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Backup Best Practices for VMware Virtual Machines

Posted September 5, 2013 - 1:00 pm

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Review: New Parallels, Fusion virtual desktops for OS X fail the smell test

Posted September 5, 2013 - 10:11 am

Parallels has interesting ideas that only half work, and Fusion adds almost nothing new beyond better hardware support
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How to explain virtualization to your mom (sort of)

Posted September 4, 2013 - 11:21 am

Attendees at VMworld attempt to describe virtual technology to an interviewer.
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VMware releases Fusion 6 to support OS X Mavericks, Windows 8.1

Posted September 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

For years now, we've been watching an ongoing tit-for-tat battle between VMware and Parallels. Both companies make virtualization apps--VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop--which let you run Windows (and other operating systems) on your Mac. Every year or so, the two companies release new versions of their apps, each trying to one-up the other. VMware has just fired its salvo for 2013, releasing version 6 of its Fusion and Fusion Professional virtualization apps.
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VMware: Win7 can cost more than twice as much on PCs than on virtual desktops

Posted September 3, 2013 - 1:20 pm

VMware says enterprises migrating to Microsoft Windows 7 can save a bundle by using virtual-desktop infrastructure technology rather than standalone PCs.
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12 terrific new updates in VMware vSphere 5.5

Posted September 3, 2013 - 12:24 pm

VMware boosts performance, scalability, and usability with enhancements that stretch from the hypervisor to the management stack
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VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco

Posted August 30, 2013 - 10:34 am

How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement.
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Backup and Recovery for VMware Environments with Avamar 7

Posted August 30, 2013 - 10:30 am

This white paper provides an overview of the features implemented in EMC Avamar for fast, efficient, and secure backups of VMware virtual environments.
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VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco

Posted August 29, 2013 - 1:09 pm

How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement.
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VMware's virtualization quest could help shake up storage, too

Posted August 28, 2013 - 1:29 pm

The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization.
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VMware spotlights key NSX security tool for deploying security software and services

Posted August 28, 2013 - 11:13 am

VMware's NSX network virtualization platform, expected out by year end, will have a key security tool for deploying security software and services to VMware-based virtual machines.
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Will Microsoft Office Finally Play Nice on the iPad?

Posted August 28, 2013 - 8:30 am

For all the success the iPad has enjoyed, it's only big drawback has been that Microsoft Windows software - and Microsoft Office, in particular - doesn't perform well. However, now Parallels has unveiled an app that brings full versions of Windows desktop software to the touch-based iPad.
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Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off?

Posted August 27, 2013 - 2:09 pm

In unveiling its NSX software this week, VMware is looking to convince its huge base of server virtualization customers to trust it with network virtualization, too, even though many of them already look to Cisco for their primary network needs.
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Citrix integrates Netscaler with VMware's network virtualization platform

Posted August 27, 2013 - 7:48 am

Citrix Systems will use its NetScaler Control Center for VMware to manage NetScaler functionality within virtualized networks that use VMware's NSX platform.
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HP, Juniper to help VMware take on networks with NSX

Posted August 26, 2013 - 7:37 pm

VMware's big splash in software-defined networking with its NSX network hypervisor comes with partnerships already in place to flesh out its virtual networks.
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VMware sets sights on network virtualization

Posted August 26, 2013 - 4:16 pm

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger used his opening keynote speech at the company's annual VMworld conference to emphasize plans to virtualize networks with the aim of achieving the success in virtualizing servers.
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ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVaultDL4000 Appliance

Posted August 26, 2013 - 1:30 pm

The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes.
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Are enterprises ready for network virtualization?

Posted August 26, 2013 - 1:05 pm

Chris Harney works as a consultant for VMware resellers and consultants, and he also runs a well-populated virtualization user group in New England named VTUG (Virtual Technology User Group). He's regularly out and about working with companies and people who work with enterprises on a daily basis.
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VMware unwraps virtual networking software – promises greater network control, security

Posted August 26, 2013 - 1:05 pm

VMware today announced that its virtual networking software and security software products packaged together in an offering named NSX will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Fortinet, McAfee among first to support VMware NSX net virtualization

Posted August 26, 2013 - 12:00 pm

Even though the NSX network virtualization software VMware is unveiling Monday at the VMworld Conference won't be available until year-end, security vendors such as Fortinet and McAfee are already throwing their weight behind it.
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Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations: Scalable Performance and Simplicity in Setup

Posted August 23, 2013 - 5:30 pm

Dell Reference Configurations provide a solid platform upon which to build a highly-available virtualization infrastructure with simplified setup and upgrades that can take under 30 minutes.
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