By Don MacVittie 
Throughout history there has been a cycle that ebbs and flows where new technology makes production more efficient and reduces the need for manpower in a particular space, thus forcing those in charge into the difficult position of deciding who stays and who goes. This is normally re... May. 17, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 643 |
By RealWire News Distribution Latest version of cloud orchestration software powers new revenue streams and productivity gains for service providers while reducing the cost and risk of delivering cloud servicesLivingston, Scotland - 15 May 2012 - Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software... May. 15, 2012 06:40 AM EDT Reads: 132 |
By Cloud Ventures Canada boasts yet another start-up with the potential to be a heavyweight player in the global Cloud Computing industry. Cloud Dynamics is a uniquely powerful formula for this market, given two particular key founding strengths: An executive team with comprehensive, real-world experien... May. 14, 2012 07:43 PM EDT Reads: 219 |
By Andy Melmed During this week’s webinar (Wednesday, May 16th at 11:00AM EDT. / 8:00AM PDT.), attendees will learn how to deploy a desktop virtualization pilot based on Citrix’s® industry-leading VDI solution – XenDesktop®, quickly and easily with lower upfront (capex) and ongoing ... May. 14, 2012 11:42 AM EDT Reads: 146 |
By Unitiv Blog  Major changes have taken place in the network in the past 15 years. The type of data that users are passing across the pipes is significantly different in size and composition. And, the coming “data explosion” promises to put even the most robust networks to the test.
When you add in ... May. 14, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 877 |
By Unitiv Blog One of the biggest challenges facing data centers today is determining what services they’re going to offer the organization tomorrow. More and more, business units are looking to cloud computing solutions as one of many options. It’s tempting for a given business unit to s... May. 14, 2012 09:06 AM EDT Reads: 129 |
By Lori MacVittie  Like cloud two or three years ago, SDN and OpenFlow is dominating the discussions. During a show that’s (in theory at least) dedicated to networking, this should be no surprise.
Is it making networking sexy again? Yes, insomuch as we’re at least talking about networking again, which i... May. 14, 2012 07:07 AM EDT Reads: 711 |
By Lori MacVittie  #F5TCP #interop You are now. Introducing the F5 Technical Certification Program. Can you explain the role of the Cache-Control HTTP header? How about the operational flow of data during an SMTP authentication exchange? Are you well-versed in the anatomy of an SSL handshake and the ... May. 14, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 775 |
By Kevin Remde For my 30th posting in this series, I thought I’d tackle a couple of really tough questions posed by John at our Columbus, Ohio TechNet Event: Well, John… this of course would require me to enter an opinion here on my blog. And I don’t think I’m allowed to give my opinion of ... May. 11, 2012 09:25 PM EDT Reads: 239 |
By CloudCommons 2012  Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up... May. 10, 2012 07:58 AM EDT Reads: 939 |
By RealWire News Distribution NHS demand for secure cloud services met by Service Provider ahead of competitionLondon, UK 10 May 2012: Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services enabler, is today announcing its IGSoC (Information Governance Statement of Compliance) certification, allowing Proact... May. 10, 2012 06:16 AM EDT Reads: 281 |
By ExtraHop Networks
This week ExtraHop announced new monitoring capabilities for Citrix VDI deployments, developed using the latest protocol specifications from Citrix and verified as Citrix Ready for both XenDesktop and XenApp.
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) continues to gain interest for its prom... May. 9, 2012 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 118 |
By Nicole Gorman Sanbolic To Also Demonstrate How To Achieve A Complete Enterprise-Class VDI Environment In Less Time, With Less Effort, and Lower Upfront Costs At Citrix Synergy 2012 (Booth 711) Wednesday, May 9, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: SQL Server Virtualization with San... May. 8, 2012 11:04 PM EDT Reads: 356 |
By Xenia von Wedel  RPost is enabling Outlook developers to extend their apps with email tracking, legal proof, encryption, and e-signatures. These additions will ensure that users stay legally compliant with HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. RPost's Outlook application is now offered package... May. 8, 2012 11:55 AM EDT Reads: 410 |
By RealWire News Distribution User Virtualisation Solutions Transform Organisations into Productive Mobile Workforces Securely Governed by IT London - May 8, 2012 - AppSense, the people-centric computing company, today announced the intent to acquire RAPsphere, a mobile IT company developing mobile information mana... May. 8, 2012 09:40 AM EDT Reads: 453 |
By RealWire News Distribution The IGEL Universal MultiDisplay solution increases productivity by allowing workers to use three to eight monitors in parallel at the workstationReading, UK, May 8th, 2012 - IGEL Technology today launched its new IGEL Universal MultiDisplay software solution to allow specialist workers... May. 8, 2012 06:33 AM EDT Reads: 491 |
By RealWire News Distribution ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualisation DeploymentsLondon, May 8, 2012 - ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced the launch... May. 8, 2012 06:28 AM EDT Reads: 156 |
By Bob Gourley At the 2-3 May 2012 HP Software Government Summit, Joe Gribble of the Department of Treasury Bureau of Public Debt brought up some really amazing success stories of how they are following executive directives and transforming their IT business processes. The Bureau of Public Debt is co... May. 8, 2012 05:34 AM EDT Reads: 237 |
By ExtraHop Networks ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualization Deployments
SEATTLE, WA – May 7, 2012 – ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutio... May. 7, 2012 11:17 AM EDT Reads: 246 |
By Kevin Remde At our TechNet Event in Columbus, OH recently, Andy asked: There is no limitation, Andy. I think some of the concerns people have are related to licensing. Can I really take a live virtual machine and move it freely between nodes in a cluster? The answer is, yes.&#... May. 7, 2012 09:28 AM EDT Reads: 121 |
By Greg Schulz  It is great to see more conversations and coverage around storage metrics that matter beyond simply focusing on cost per GByte or TByte (e.g. space capacity). Likewise, it is also good to see conversations expanding beyond data footprint reduction (DFR) from a space capacity savings or... May. 7, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
By Unitiv Blog  Over the past decade, we’ve become much more robust in our approach to information security. We recognize that our company’s largest vulnerabilities have to do with its computer systems, and that data security is at the core of loss prevention, disaster recovery, and even normal operat... May. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,134 |
By RealWire News Distribution AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY MOOGSOFT INCLUDED IN COOL VENDORS IN APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2012 BY INDUSTRY ANALYST FIRM.London, England / New York, NY - May 4th 2012 - Moogsoft, the Agile Service Management software company, today announced that it has been included in t... May. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 496 |
By Lori MacVittie #interop #fasterapp #adcfw #ipv6 Behind the scenes in the Interop network Interop Las Vegas expects somewhere in the realm of 10,000+ attendees this year. Most of them will no doubt be carrying smart phones, many tablets, and of course the old standby, the laptop. Nearly every one ... May. 4, 2012 07:22 AM EDT Reads: 454 |
By Nicole Gorman "State University of New York, Upstate Medical University(SUNY Upstate) depends on Sanbolic Melio to provide high availability for its Citrix PVS server, EMC storage based enterprise compute environment. "By decoupling the data management respons May. 4, 2012 03:19 AM EDT Reads: 200 |
By Nicole Gorman  "VDI deployments can impose a tremendous strain on storage infrastructures. Frequently in fact, VDI installs are derailed by unexpected storage cost, complexity and performance degradation," said Rich Brumpton, director, National Virtualization Practice, MTM Technologies, Inc., nationa... May. 4, 2012 03:19 AM EDT Reads: 231 |
By Deborah Strickland SDU is pleased to announce availability of the second release of the Unified MPLS for Mobile Transport (UMMT) System. This system builds upon the industry leading scale and operational simplicity of UMMT 1.0 for LTE, with additions of legacy transport for 2G/3G and validation of... May. 3, 2012 05:37 PM EDT Reads: 296 |
By RealWire News Distribution London, UK May 3, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to... May. 3, 2012 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 659 |
By RealWire News Distribution London, UK - May 3rd 2012 - NAS Optimization provider Avere Systems' FXT Series Edge filers have been shortlisted for Datacentre Storage Hardware Product of the Year in the UK's Datacentre Solutions Awards. The recognition from the judging panel, which includes SNS Europe editor Phil A... May. 3, 2012 05:12 AM EDT Reads: 260 |
By RealWire News Distribution Enterprises Benefit From Faster Window 7 Migrations and Lower Costs VDI DeploymentsLondon, May 2, 2012 - AppSense, the leader in people-centric computing, today announced a major update to the AppSense User Virtualisation Platform focusing on simplified set-up and administration, exten... May. 2, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 262 |
By Lori MacVittie  The introduction of virtualization and cloud computing to data centers has been heralded as “transformational” and “disruptive” and “game changing.” From an operational IT perspective, that’s absolutely true.
But like transformational innovation in other industries, such disruption is... May. 2, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
By Peter Velikin  If you were happily running your IT system but needed some additional performance, chances are you turned to some kind of SSD caching solution to improve performance at a lower cost point than adding more servers or storage. You went on what I am calling a “cache diet” (no, not the “cr... May. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 686 |
By Unitiv Blog Egenera was recently spotlighted on ZDNet in an article by Dan Kusnetzy. Read more here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/one-call-medical-an-egenera-customer-profile/4863One Call Medical chose Egenera's PAN Manager because they needed something that would help manage its IT in... May. 1, 2012 09:43 AM EDT Reads: 169 |
By Greg Schulz  Hearing different discussions about APIs in general and cloud in particular got me thinking, besides the usual Application Programming Interface meaning, what other options exists including those to have some fun with.
How about some of these among others to have some fun and take a q... May. 1, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,926 |
By Greg Schulz Congratulations to new and returning 2012 VMware vExperts
By Greg Schulz
A quick note of congratulations to all the new as well as too my fellow returning 2012 VMware vExperts from around the world.
Here is a link listing the 2012 VMware vExperts including how y... Apr. 30, 2012 11:44 AM EDT Reads: 337 |
By Tony Baer  While Big Data has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about data in motion.
Of the 3 "V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add "Value” as the 4th V) – velocity
has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big D... Apr. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,151 |
By Andy Melmed During this week’s webinar (Wednesday, May 2nd at 11:00AM EDT. / 8:00AM PDT.), attendees will learn how to utilize Sanbolic’s Melio distibuted data management software to achieve the greatest return on an investment in desktop virtualization. The webinar will focus on comme... Apr. 30, 2012 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 277 |
By Lori MacVittie  You probably recall years ago the old “Tastes Great vs Less Filling” advertisements. The ones that always concluded in the end that the beer in question was not one or the other, but both.
Whenever there are two ostensibly competing technologies attempting to solve the same problem, w... Apr. 27, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,176 |
By CloudCommons 2012  Venture capitalists devoted $6.9 billion in 2011 to cloud startups, which is an increase of 68% over 2010, according to this InformationWeek article. Author Patrick Houston recommends that enterprises develop a rigorous process for vetting IT cloud tools and vendors now to prepare your... Apr. 27, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,492 |
By Lori MacVittie  Anyone who’s involved with web application performance – either measuring or addressing – knows there are literally hundreds of RFCs designed to improve the performance of TCP (which in turn, one hopes, improves the performance of HTTP-delivered applications that ultimately rely on TCP... Apr. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,002 |
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