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Virtualization, Cloud Having Little Impact On Databases
January 29, 2012 11:00 AM
Cloud computing has taken center stage during the last two years as the hot enterprise technology, but in the database realm, the public cloud and off-site hosted database services still represent too many unknown factors to truly have mass adoption. According to the co-author of the InformationWeek "State of Database Technology" report, the public cloud is so far having very little impact on enterprise databases.VMware Simplifies, Automates Virtual/Cloud Management
January 27, 2012 10:30 AM
VMware is expanding its management portfolio with vCenter Operations Management Suite by integrating with VMware vCenter Capacity IQ and VMware vCenter Configuration Manager for improved performance, capacity and configuration management. VMware revamped its virtualization management suite last October, adding the VMware vFabric Application Management and VMware IT Business Management tools. The new enhancements focus on embedding and integrating management tools into the platform, streamlining processes and applying analytics so customers can achieve better economics with their cloud computing deployments.Meraki Ups The Cloud-Based Networking Ante
January 23, 2012 10:10 AM
Mainstream network players and those chasing them are out to erase the lines between wireless and wired networking. As the network edge gets redefined and the cloud makes its presence felt in LAN and WLAN spaces, announcements like Meraki's latest update are getting to be more commonplace--and exciting. With a number of interesting product updates to share, Meraki is starting 2012 with a bang.IDC: SSDs Reshaping Enterprise Storage
January 13, 2012 10:30 AM
After significant growth in the solid state storage market in 2011 that brought the total value of shipments to $5 billion, research firm IDC is expecting continued big growth through 2015. Within the enterprise market, there is increasing use of SSDs, a trend the research company expects to continue as prices fall and performance increases.IBM Green Hat To Cut Development Costs
January 05, 2012 09:00 AM
IBM wants to take a big bite out of software development costs with the acquisition of Green Hat, a provider of software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments. The two companies say software defects cost the United States almost $60 billion annually, and testing accounts for more than half of overall development costs and upward of a third of testing teams' time. When the deal is complete, Green Hat will join IBM's Rational Software business and will be offered through IBM Global Business Services' Application Management Services (AMS), which provides strategy, design, implementation, testing and managed services for application virtualization.Rapid Backup And Retrieval With Riverbed's Whitewater
November 28, 2011 11:05 AM
Cloud storage brings cost effective offsite backup and retrieval capabilities to small and midsize businesses, but using cloud storage as an external disk is not as effective as it seems, particularly as the data set grows. It takes time to send and retrieve files to a cloud storage provider and often means using another set of tools to do so. Riverbed's Whitewater appliance makes the cloud storage appear as a backup target and balances the competing needs of speedy read/writes and long-term bulk storage. Using a combination of local file caching and deduplication with cloud storage replication, IT gets the best of both worlds.Implementing Automation
October 24, 2011 10:10 AM
Orchestration platforms have better chances of success now that vendors are offering APIs to effectively manage their products. Routers, virtualization platforms, firewalls and storage arrays are delivering core features to enable external administration using XML-based APIs.The Case Against Orchestration
October 14, 2011 01:26 PM
I outlined the case for orchestration. Now I want to answer "Why now? What's different?" After all, management platforms have failed to deliver automation and orchestration for the last 20 years, at least. Why would today's software be any more likely to actually work? Can we try for operational nirvana once again?Windows Server 8 Embraces Private Clouds
September 15, 2011 01:19 PM
Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 8 promises to meld server technologies with services in the cloud--at least that is the theme that was presented by Microsoft’s Jeff Woolsey, the principal program manager lead for the Server and Cloud Division.Automation and Orchestration
September 08, 2011 10:00 AM
Now that virtualization is either implemented or under way at most organizations, vendors are focusing on orchestration and automation of their infrastructure to extract pounds instead of pennies from their customers. The vision that is espoused by vendors goes something like this: Companies are spending time and resources to build servers, script OS and application installations, make storage array and network configuration changes, deliver firewall rules etc., etc. If only we had some clever software that could help to perform these repetitive and expensive tasks.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »
