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EMC Refreshes VMAX, VNX, Isilon and Data Domain Storage Lines

May 22, 2012 03:37 PM
EMC's product blitz includes VMAX and VNX additions and enhancements, a VPLEX/RecoverPoint combo and new Data Domain and Avamar offerings.

ScaleXtreme Automates Cloud-Based Patch Management For Virtual, Physical Servers

February 27, 2012 11:00 AM
ScaleXtreme, a provider of server automation products, has launched a cloud-based patch management automation product for use in public cloud, virtual and physical servers. The tool does automatic scanning and remediation for patch management, says Nand Mulchandani, CEO and co-founder of ScaleXtreme.

dinCloud: Making a Big Impact in the Cloud

February 06, 2012 09:00 AM
Have you reached the saturation point yet on the cloud? The endless cacophony of cloud messages seems to have transformed into white noise, where trying to distinguish and differentiate among competitive cloud offerings can leave one in either a state of decision-making paralysis or trusting that familiar vendors know what they're talking about without, perhaps, the full measure of due diligence that is appropriate. Enter dinCloud, which plans to break through the droning blather and show how its approach to cloud is different.

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.

The Value Of Agents

September 11, 2009 02:17 PM
Agents are those little pieces of application code that need to be installed as a component of a larger application. There is the fear that installing an agent, or more accurately "yet another" agent on an application workload, is going to bring the whole server crashing to its knees. When a vendor begins to proclaim they are agentless and that anything with an agent is instantly evil and should be avoided, the truth is, as always, somewhere in the middle.

An Interview With Simon Crosby, CTO Of XenSource

October 09, 2007 09:44 PM
XenSource, which was recently acquired by Citrix, makes the open-source hypervisor XenExpress. It also licenses XenEnterprise, a feature-rich version of XenExpress that includes enhanced features such as live migration and

App Vendors: Virtualize or Get Out!

May 25, 2007 04:00 AM
Virtualization is the most important technology to hit the data center since 32-bit computing got cheap. App vendors that value their customers should be supporting it.

A Look at Blue Lane VirtualShield

May 25, 2007 04:00 AM
We put Blue Lane VirtualShield to the test and found its unique patching approach an effective way to protect against remotely exploitable vulnerabilities targeting VMware.

Red Hat's Latest OS Goes Virtual

March 16, 2007 09:35 PM
Enterprise Linux promises greater OS efficiency through virtualization

Rollout: Thinstall Virtualization Suite (TVS) 3.0

February 15, 2007 05:00 AM
Thinstall lets you take off-the-shelf products and internally developed applications and turn them into virtual apps with very little effort.

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